Juxtaposition of two different themes this morning. One was a Tweet that caught my attention: RT @oscarberg: RT @hnauheimer: When leadership takes risk and opens space, vision emerges and people come together in dialogue. Then, things take care of themselves. …
One of the Tweets last week was a pointer to a post by Andrew Johnston of Questa Computing, somewhen back in June this year, on his Agile Architect blog, titled ‘Architects: Masters of Order and Unorder?‘. For enterprise-architects, it’s well worth …
Have been having a bit of a struggle with two particularly intransigent types over on LinkedIn, in the long-running thread on “EA is the glue between strategy and execution”. They’ve been insisting that their own particular views on enterprise-architecture are …
A great discussion yesterday with Mike Turner reminded me that there are two radically different roles for enterprise-architects: the internal enterprise-architect the external enterprise-architect They’re both focused on ‘the architecture of the enterprise’, but it’s important not to mix them …
Whilst working on a previous post on rights and responsibilities, I needed to hunt out the original of a phrase attributed to the anthropologist Margaret Mead, that “motherhood is a biological fact, fatherhood is a social fiction”. A quick search brought …
In part this is a follow-on from the previous post on the fundamental flaws underlying all forms of currency, but it also has many implications for businesses, enterprise-architectures, societal models, corporate social responsibility and much else besides. And don’t worry, …
One of the comments on the previous post on the unacknowledged risks of ‘cooperative IT’ triggered off an essay-length response that really deserves its own post. So here it is. 🙂 The comment that started it off was from Ric …
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Twitter-correspondent Craig Hepburn posted a Tweet this morning pointing to Dion Hinchcliffe‘s excellent ZDNet article, ‘CoIT: how an accidental future is becoming reality‘, about the current rise and rise of ‘consumer IT’ or ‘cooperative IT’: It’s a story as old …
Development of new ideas, processes and practices will always be a social process, and always somewhat messy. To enable that development to happen, we need social conditions that can support it – and screen out behaviours that prevent it. Those …
This one’s for Oscar Berg, who this morning sent out the following Tweet: My best ideas that I use at work are born outside of office hours. Who owns these ideas? I commented on my reTweet that this was a …