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On funds received

Posted on 23 June 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Uncategorized — No Comments ↓

Just a brief note that’s specific to a small number of readers here – those that have been kind enough to send in donations via the ‘Donate with PayPal’ button to the right (or further below, if you’re using a…

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New – EA training-course

Posted on 18 March 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 15 Comments ↓

Yep, I’ve finally Got Round To It: I’ve created a full set of materials for an EA training-course, building on the whole-of-enterprise approach that I’ve championed all of these years. (Whole-of-enterprise, that is, in contrast to the arbitrarily-constrained IT-is-the-centre-of-everything approach…

Metaframeworks in practice, Part 1: Extended-Zachman

Posted on 10 November 2012 by

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What ontology-frameworks do we need, to make sense of the enterprise-architecture of a logistics-business? This is the first of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create appropriate tools to help…

Metaframeworks in practice: Introduction

Posted on 10 November 2012 by

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If most of the frameworks we use in enterprise-architecture are ‘smooshed together’ from other frameworks, according to the needs of the context, then how do we do that ‘smooshing together’? More to the point, when and how and why should we…

Rethinking the DIKW hierarchy

Posted on 7 November 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 3 Comments ↓

What are the relationships between data, information, knowledge and wisdom? This is one of the classic challenges in the knowledge-management [KM] space. The usual way to describe those relationships is that it’s a stack, or a hierarchy, or a pyramid,…

More on business-models

Posted on 21 July 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — No Comments ↓

Back on business-models again, this time with more of an emphasis on the implications for enterprise-architecture, rather than solely for business-architecture. The initial challenge posed by my colleague was to describe my own business model, by which he meant “how…

What's my own business-model?

Posted on 15 July 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 8 Comments ↓

How do I make money, in my business? What’s my own business-model? That was part of a follow-on to my previous post on ‘What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?‘, in a great phone-conversation with a colleague last night, who challenged me…

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New book 'Everyday Enterprise-Architecture' now available on Amazon

Posted on 20 May 2010 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Scribbles / writing, Uncategorized — No Comments ↓

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…

What is 'the enterprise'?

Posted on 8 December 2009 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — No Comments ↓

Sounds a simple-enough question, no doubt, but seems to me that most nominal ‘enterprise architects’ have never even bothered to ask it. The usual answer would seem to be ‘the organization’, or worse, ‘the IT department’… I’ve posted up on…