A fascinating throw-away line in an article on the BBC website today, ‘Arizona: Naming the dead from the desert‘: The forensic scientists and I have a lot of faith in science, which is a belief system. It requires trust in…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
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SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis
How do we make sense of story – the stories and narratives and anecdotes that people tell each other and themselves about their world? How can we link between the layers of story to help us make sense of some…
Tagged with: causal layered analysis, Enterprise architecture, Futures, mythquake, narrative knowledge, paradigm, SCAN, sense-making, story, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures
Enterprise as story: a cafe example
How can we use a vision or story as the anchor for an organisation’s business and enterprise? How do we link that story to decisions and actions in everyday business? This is a theme that came up in a great…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, story, values, vision
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
On learning enterprise-architecture
A few days ago Pradeep (I don’t know his surname, unfortunately) wrote a comment to one of my previous posts, asking for advice on learning enterprise-architecture: I aspire to become a enterprise architect. Not sure if you have written on a…
Tagged with: Enterprise architecture, generalist vs specialist, mentor, sense-making, skills, story, the Outsider
Posted in Enterprise architecture, The Outsider
Posted in Enterprise architecture, The Outsider
Using the ‘This’ game in EA modelling
A great session last Friday with enterprise-architect Stuart Boardman, using his Metropolis thought-experiment as a live test-case for my still somewhat-experimental ‘This’ game for service-modelling. Stuart developed Metropolis as a worked-example for service-modelling at very large scale – the scale of…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, models, narrative knowledge, story, the This game
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
New book ‘The enterprise as story’ is published
Also launched at the Integrated EA 2012 conference was my new book ‘The enterprise as story‘: Full title: The Enterprise As Story: the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture ISBN: 978-1-906681-34-0 Description: Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture describe everything in terms of…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Integrated EA, Knowledge, narrative, narrative knowledge, story
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Happy Whatever!
‘Tis the season for… something, probably? For many people, it’s ‘the ‘Holiday Season’, or Christmas, or New Year, or something like that. A calendrical marker-point, anyway. Something to celebrate, perhaps. The culture I come from is nominally Christian, hence ‘Christmas’…
Work-in-progress – two more books
Another follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work‘, just a quick note to let you know about two current book-projects. The first has a working-title of The enterprise as story: the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture.…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, complexity, disruption, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, methodology, narrative knowledge, paradigm, power, story, values
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing
Getting down to work in a different garden
When I said I was moving on, in the previous post ‘Time for this on toad to move on‘, yes, I was serious: I’m moving out of mainstream ‘enterprise’-architecture. Am I giving up? No, not at all. Am I actually…
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, mythquake, responsibility, Society, story, strategy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider
