What actually do we mean by ‘scalability’ in enterprise-architecture? What can and can’t we scale within the architecture, or the process of architecture itself? These questions came up for me in thinking about a comment by Dave Duggal to the previous…
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Scalability and uniqueness
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, scalability, SCAN, sense-making, social business, uniqueness
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Control, complex, chaotic
What exactly is ‘the chaotic’ in enterprise-architectures? How do we work with it, design for it rather than ‘against’ it? Yeah, I know this is a theme I’ve visited often here, but to me it’s a challenge that’s right at the core of…
Tagged with: chaos, chaotic, complex adaptive systems, complexity, complicated, control, distinctiveness, Enterprise architecture, particularity, SCAN
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
More keywords for SCAN
Some notes that came up for me almost a month back, on the SCAN framework for sensemaking and decision-making, and that I hadn’t gotten round to documenting until now. I was reminded that I hadn’t posted these notes when I saw…
Tagged with: complexity, context-space mapping, SCAN, sense-making, sensemaking
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Knowledge
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Knowledge
The over-certainties of certification
A strange kind of annual ritual that they did there, that subtle ‘work-to-rule’, every year that I worked at that place. Each autumn, up would come the new crop of graduates, each with their shiny new graduation-certificate and their own…
Tagged with: Business, certification, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, narrative knowledge, paradigm, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, skills, skills development
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Working with ‘I don’t know’
How do we work on something when we don’t know what to do? Where do we start? How do we start? How do we keep going? I had some useful first-hand experience with this earlier this week. Some while back, I’d…
Tagged with: decision-making, narrative knowledge, responsibility, SCAN, sense-making, uncertainty
Posted in Knowledge, Power and responsibility
Posted in Knowledge, Power and responsibility
More on reframing entropy in business
My previous post on ‘Reframing entropy in business‘ kinda triggered off a veritable storm of correspondence, both in the comments and offline – hence seems it’s worth summarising and revisiting those themes here. Perhaps the first point is that yes,…
Tagged with: counter-entropy, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, entropy, life, paradigm, SCAN
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Reframing entropy in business
What is entropy? What – if anything – is its relevance to business? And how does chaos come into the picture? The physics definition of entropy is straightforward enough: it’s a corollary of the second law of thermodynamics, the way in which energy flows…
Tagged with: counter-entropy, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, entropy, life, paradigm, SCAN
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Best practices – adapt, then adopt
Just how applicable are ‘best practices’? How certain can we be that they’ll be ‘best’ for each seemingly-equivalent context? I’ve been brewing on this for quite a while, when via serendipity up comes this retweet by software-architect Simon Brown: RT…
Tagged with: best practice, complexity, Enterprise architecture, methodology, SCAN, skills, skills development
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Control, complexity and chaos
Just how restricting – 0r even dangerous – is our seeming ‘need’ for certainty? Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been exploring links between the SCAN sensemaking / decision-making framework and Cynthia Kurtz’s more socially-oriented Confluence sensemaking-framework. I still…
Tagged with: chaos, complexity, control, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, SCAN
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Principles and checklists
What is the role of principles in enterprise-architecture? What is a principle? For that matter, when is a principle not a principle? These were questions that came up in response to a post by Simplicable: ‘101 Principles of Enterprise-Architecture‘. Or…
Tagged with: Business, checklist, complexity, decision-making, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, principles, SCAN, taxonomy
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
