How do we make sense of uniqueness? How can we make sense of what’s happening at the exact moment of action? In the previous post in this series, I looked briefly at Boisot’s I-Space – promoted by some as ‘the …
We know how to do sensemaking in enterprise-architectures; but why do we do it? What’s the purpose? What’s the point? As a result of various recent proddings from Bruce Waltuck and Stephen Law, amongst others, I’ve finally gotten round to …
As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit …
A few days ago a young IT-architect in India, Nitin Koshy, sent me an email asking for advice on how develop a career as an enterprise-architect. A nice challenge: much appreciated! There’s plenty of purely pragmatic advice one could give, …
A great discussion yesterday with Mike Turner reminded me that there are two radically different roles for enterprise-architects: the internal enterprise-architect the external enterprise-architect They’re both focused on ‘the architecture of the enterprise’, but it’s important not to mix them …
Ideafarming. Sometimes a word will pop up out of nowhere, like the mushrooms did yesterday on the grass verge just down the road on this small suburban block. But ‘ideafarming’ is a good way to describe the work that I …
Everyday Enterprise Architecture, the latest book in my Tetradian Enterprise Architecture series, is now available on Amazon: ‘Everyday Enterprise Architecture‘ on Amazon.com ‘Everyday Enterprise Architecture‘ on Amazon.co.uk Note that Amazon have an unfortunate habit of listing print-on-demand books as ‘out …
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(This is part of an ongoing series that explores alternate uses of a generic conceptual categorisation originally described in the well-known Cynefin diagram. This discussion is not about the formal Cynefin Framework; for details on the definition and use of the Cynefin framework …
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(This is part of an ongoing series that explores alternate uses of a generic conceptual categorisation originally described in the well-known Cynefin diagram. This discussion is not about the formal Cynefin Framework; for details on the definition and use of the Cynefin framework …
More ‘Cynefin-like’ cross-maps (‘Beyond-Cynefin’ series) Read more »
(This is part of an ongoing series that explores alternate uses of a generic conceptual categorisation originally described in the well-known Cynefin diagram. It should be emphasised that this discussion is not about the Cynefin Framework, which is a distinct …
Using ‘Cynefin-like’ cross-maps (‘Beyond-Cynefin’ series) Read more »