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Guiding the dance of change

Posted on 29 January 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — No Comments ↓

How do we work with change? How do we deal with change? Or cope with it? Perhaps a better metaphor would be to dance with change. That’s not a new metaphor, of course: for business-change, for example, there’s the now-classic book…

The social construction of process

Posted on 5 September 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 2 Comments ↓

That previous post on process was, yes, I’ll admit it, a bit long: but the key point is that the term ‘process’ is necessarily a bit blurred, and that we get into trouble if we try too hard to sharpen up…

The meaning of process

Posted on 4 September 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 10 Comments ↓

What do we mean by the term ‘process’? What is a process? For that matter, what isn’t a process? This came up in a great Skype-conversation today with Kevin Smith, creator of PEAF (the Pragmatic EA Framework), about yet another LinkedIn somewhat-circular…

IT-centrism, business-centrism, capability and process

Posted on 1 September 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — No Comments ↓

My earlier post ‘IT-centrism is killing enterprise-architecture‘ seemed to touch a nerve with quite a few folks: tetradian: [post] IT-centrism is killing enterprise-architecture http://bit.ly/p8kfqf (thx @dougnewdick) #entarch tonia_ries: The only thing that should be at the center of any business…