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An inventory of sorts

Posted on 10 October 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures — No Comments ↓

In the previous post ‘Decisions, decisions…‘, I promised to list the tools for sensemaking, strategy, modelling, metagovernance and the like, for use in enterprise-architectures and similar fields, that I’ve been working on over this past decade or so. So here…

Decisions, decisions – and an anniversary

Posted on 5 October 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, The Outsider — 7 Comments ↓

One of the more challenging aspects of reaching so-called ‘retirement age’ is how much it refocusses attention towards one’s legacy rather than the new. There’s so darned much in my back-catalogue that still needs finishing before I run out of…

Methods for whole-enterprise architecture – Keep it simple

Posted on 26 July 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 5 Comments ↓

For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. One crucial criterion is that any methods and frameworks we use must support fractality – the same patterns, regardless of scope…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – Summary

Posted on 6 June 2016 by

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For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is a brief summary of the previous six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – Worked-example

Posted on 1 June 2016 by

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For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is a follow-on to a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 6: Training

Posted on 16 May 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 2 Comments ↓

For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is Part 6 of a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 5: Practices and toolsets

Posted on 9 May 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 2 Comments ↓

For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is Part 5 of a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 4: Content

Posted on 1 May 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 6 Comments ↓

For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is Part 4 of a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 3: Method

Posted on 27 April 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 8 Comments ↓

For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is Part 3 of a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction…

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 2: Core

Posted on 25 April 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 2 Comments ↓

For a viable enterprise architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is Part 2 of a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture:…