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Hope, optimism and delusion

Posted on 8 January 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility — 1 Comment ↓

Yes, I work in and around the fringes of enterprise-architecture and the like – but my long-term background is more in medicine. So for me, one of the quiet pleasures of the new-year ‘holiday season’ is reading through the Christmas…

At IASA Ireland 2017

Posted on 22 June 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — 2 Comments ↓

I’ve spent the past week in Ireland, first in Dublin at the IASA Ireland 2017 conference (co-hosted by ICS, the Irish Computer Society), and also at a follow-on event organised by Gar Mac Críosta. Paddy Baxter‘s theme for the conference…

New book: ‘Changes – a business novel’

Posted on 25 May 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Scribbles / writing — 6 Comments ↓

Delighted to say I’ve just published my ‘business-novel’ Changes. Hooray! More details are at https://leanpub.com/tb-changes . Here’s the cover: And here’s the blurb: Marco has a new job: Head of Organizational Change. But his bright new plan to bring the company into the…

May Day, and a mayday for our world

Posted on 1 May 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider — 7 Comments ↓

And yeah, this is where it gets seriously scary. Not just for me: for just about everyone. I mentioned in the previous post that “I hate the money-economy”. It might be useful if I explained why? — Yes, this is May Day. Beltane,…

A post-rights era?

Posted on 19 February 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Power and responsibility, Society — 1 Comment ↓

Do we now live in a post-rights era? Rights so much seem part of the social fabric now – along with endless arguments about who should and shouldn’t have them, and why. But if there’s talk about ‘post-rights’, what’s really…

Tagged with: post-rights, power, RBPEA, responsibility, rights, Society, worldview

A post-jobs era?

Posted on 15 February 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Power and responsibility, Society — 4 Comments ↓

Do we now live in a post-jobs era? With the rise of AI (artificial/augmented intelligence) and suchlike, do we need to rethink the meaning of ‘a job’ – or what it is to be without one? To me, the short-answer…

Tagged with: employment, job, Knowledge, post-jobs, power, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, worldview

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…

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…

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,…

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…