responsibility – Page 2 – Tom Graves / Tetradian

Tag: responsibility

Intimations of arrogance from a grumpy old guy?

Posted on 12 August 2018 by

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

Okay, I admit it: I’m at real risk right now of becoming a grumpy old guy: Getting snappy at people on LinkedIn and all that. More than a fair bit of that phrase about “Will not suffer fools gladly”. Patience strained…

Who are your anti-clients?

Posted on 25 July 2018 by

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

If you’re in any kind of business, you’ll know who your clients are: you deal with them every day. And serving their needs will no doubt take up much of your attention, too. And you, or someone in your organisation,…

The relationship is the asset

Posted on 19 April 2018 by

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

“Our people are our greatest asset!” How often have you heard that phrase? How often have you used that phrase yourself? But how often have you stopped to think about what it means? – and what it implies in real…

Down the rabbit-hole with ‘evidence-based’

Posted on 21 January 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility — 1 Comment ↓

If we want to make something ‘evidence-based’, then what exactly is ‘evidence’? On the surface the answer might seem obvious – I mean, evidence is evidence, right? But in practice, as soon as we look a little closer, the evidence…

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…