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Confirming the direction

Posted on 7 January 2019 by

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

Yeah, it’s been a while since I wrote anything new here… – kind of overdue for Normal Service Will Be Resumed and all that…? But yes, I am still here, still working, still pushing onward. And gratified to see that, yes,…

Intimations of arrogance? – an addendum

Posted on 20 August 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, The Outsider — 3 Comments ↓

Carrying on from the previous post, with a bit of an explanation about why I’m becoming so much of ‘a grumpy old guy’… Here’s the blunt fact: I’m not a good thinker. I know that. Too many gaps in my knowledge,…

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,…