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A post-truth era?

Posted on 20 January 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society — 9 Comments ↓

Do we now live in a post-truth era? I’ve heard that question quite a lot over the past few weeks and months, after a year in which a lot of people made a lot of money and more from peddling…

Tagged with: delusion, imagination, Knowledge, post-truth, power, RBPEA, responsibility, self-delusion, Society, truth, worldview

Gross Demoter Score

Posted on 6 July 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 3 Comments ↓

Marketing departments of so many organisations these days seem obsessed about their Net Promoter Score – the percentage of customers who’ll promote their products to others. “Free advertising!” is how some have described it to me – hence very enticing to…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, gross demoter score, marketing, net promoter score, responsibility, values

Managers and leaders

Posted on 10 June 2016 by

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

Many organisations talk about ‘developing new leaders’. What they mostly mean in practice is ‘developing new managers’. Which is unfortunate, because they’re not the same… The blunt reality is that most organisations I see have an absurd surplus of managers,…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, culture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, leader, leadership, management, manager, power, responsibility

The role and rise of the business-anarchist

Posted on 20 April 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility — No Comments ↓

You may have noticed some new role-titles turning up in the enterprise space. Chief Disruption Officer, for example. Or Chief Transformation Officer. A fair few variants on that theme. But what you probably won’t see – not as yet, anyway…

Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, business architecture, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, responsibility

The Demoralised Man

Posted on 27 March 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility — 2 Comments ↓

Right now there’s an interesting (to me, anyway!) discussion going on within the Enterprise Architecture Network community on LinkedIn, on the role of ethics in EA, and its relationship with EA as a profession. I’ve added a few quick comments…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business ethics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, ethics, morale, paradigm, responsibility, SCAN

What I do, and why

Posted on 6 February 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge — 3 Comments ↓

“Are you the guy who writes books?”, asks the young woman behind me in the cafe. Well, yes, I am – but much as for her, it’s taken me a moment or two to recognise her, and then remember the…

Tagged with: Business, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, power, responsibility, sense-making, skills, skills development

Is culture-change the same as software-change?

Posted on 24 September 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — 13 Comments ↓

Should we approach culture-change as if it’s the same as software-change? At a current conference, James Archer seemed to interpret Alex Osterwalder as saying just that: jamesarcher: Company culture can be methodically designed, built, and tested almost like a software product.…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business culture, complexity, culture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, worldview

Luddite, and proud

Posted on 9 September 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — No Comments ↓

I’m an enterprise-architect, deeply engaged in every aspect of technology and more. Which means that at times, yes, I’m also an active Luddite – and proud of it, too. Luddites? Aren’t they those crazy technophobes who go around smashing machines because they’re…

Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business anarchist, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, luddism, luddite, RBPEA, responsibility, shaker, Society, technology, technology adoption, technophilia, values

Seven sins, sensemaking and OODA

Posted on 29 August 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Realities — 5 Comments ↓

Following from that recent series on sensemaking and ‘Seven sins of dubious discipline‘, it seems worthwhile to look at that whole context-space from a different direction, another example of a proven metaframework for much the same kind of metadiscipline – namely…

Tagged with: complexity, context-space mapping, decision-making, discipline, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, innovation, invention, Knowledge, methodology, OODA, paradigm, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, skills, skills development

Seven sins – a worked example (‘Natural rights’)

Posted on 21 August 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Realities — No Comments ↓

Enterprise-architecture, strategy, and more: they all depend on discipline and rigour, in thinking, sensemaking, decision-making and action. But what happens when that discipline is lost? What are the ‘sins’ that can cause that discipline to be lost? How can we…