Tom Graves / Tetradian

Continuing the fixups from my mildly embarrassing blunder with e-book downloads on Tetradian Books – looks like I didn’t get it right that time either.

Looks like it may have been a case of Read The Fine Manual… oops. Definitely embarrassing.

So I dearly hope that this time, having read the proper instructions for the Drain Hole download-manager, and put in the proper embedded codes rather than an assumed URL, it might now actually work. Let me know, if you would?

Many thanks – and apologies, too.

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Addendum, 16 July: finally discovered that the read-access permissions were set to default to Administrator-only. Have now reset this to ‘Anyone’, so should now at last work – please please please? I’ve tested it in a whole bunch of different ways, and the only one that doesn’t seem to work, on some systems only, is direct (left-click) view in Internet Explorer. If in doubt, use ‘right click and save’.

Apologies again for the blunders – oh well.

Just discovered, courtesy of a much-appreciated comment from John Gøtze, that my e-book download-links in Tetradian Books weren’t working properly. Or rather, they were, but only for ‘right click and save’, not for simple click, which is what I’d written.

(I’m using a WordPress plug-in called Drain Hole to manage downloads – looks like ‘Black Hole’ might have been more accurate. Oh well, it’s fixed now, in text-form at least.)

Apologies to all who may have attempted to download prior to this. Try again – and again, do let me know if anything doesn’t work!

I’ve now published the next in my ‘Tetradian Enterprise Architecture’ series, SEMPER and SCORE: enhancing enterprise effectiveness. Details on the Tetradian Books website – see here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book.

It includes a full description of the Tetradian / SEMPER framework, the SCORE replacement for the classic SWOT strategic assessment technique, and both variants of the SEMPER metric / diagnostic – the simpler SEMPER-5 and the more detailed SEMPER-11.

SEMPER measures ‘ability to do work’ in the broadest sense – probably the key metric for whole-of-enterprise architecture, and for enhancing effectiveness at the whole-of-enterprise level.

I’ve also restructured SEMPER-5 slightly so that it ties in more closely with the whole-of-enterprise architecture framework that I used in Real Enterprise Architecture.

Yup, there’s been a lot of work gone into all of that. Share and enjoy, perhaps?

I’ve now published my sort-of film-script ‘Eureka!‘ in book-form – see the Tetradian Books website here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book.

Set in the Australian 1850s goldfields (mostly), it’s best described as a comedy/satire about all the fuss and hype around the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade (1854, hence 2004), with a few (well, more than a few…) digs at present-day Australia politics and society.

Pure vanity-publishing, I know – but I spent at least six months writing the script, and probably much the same on the follow-up, so it seems worthwhile to get something tangible out of all that work! Don’t worry, I don’t ever expect to sell any, but they should make good visiting-presents or some such.

Gotta have some fun somewhen, ain’t I?

Haven’t forgotten about the need to keep in touch, just been kinda busy…

Result of ‘busy busy’ is two more books published: more details in the next couple of posts.

I’ll also be adding a new web-domain – SemperMetrics.com – to set up a more open stand-alone version of the SEMPER metric. Again, more details on another post shortly.

And now, back to work…