What’s the difference between a framework and a body-of-knowledge? A colleague asked me to write some notes on this, and it seems worthwhile doing so in more generally-available form – in other words, a blog-post. To me this is much…
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Framework versus body-of-knowledge
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, methodology, paradigm, sense-making, taxonomy, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Enterprise-architecture and financial-services
Yes, this is another ‘how not to do it’ post. And no, this isn’t about the current Barclays mess, but instead about a quote I saw in a passing tweet by enterprise-architect Joseph George: RT @josephg5: “Financial services can be thought…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, financial services, narrative, paradigm, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Inside-in, inside-out, outside-in, outside-out
I’ve been brewing how to describe some key distinctions about the way we view our architecture, about how we see its role, and its relationship with everything else in its context. Seems to me that there’s a simple two-axis matrix…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, perspective, strategy, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
On ‘stupid’ organisations
To link up with a discussion on ‘Possible examples of stupidity (or brilliance)‘, on the LnkedIn ‘Organizational Intelligence’ group, Richard Veryard and Geoff Elliott asked me to post this diagram, from my book Everyday Enterprise Architecture: I believe Richard and…
Tagged with: Business, business ethics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, groupthink, paradigm, responsibility, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
The safety-guys would have kittens (or goats)
Sadly, I don’t have a photo for this one – they always pass by so fast that I don’t have time to take the camera out. Anyway… One thing that amazes me about life in much of Latin America is…
Tagged with: effectiveness, enterprise, guatemala, safety, Society, travel, values, worldview
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Society
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Society
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’…
SCAN – work in progress
Yes, I know I’ve gone a bit quiet in the past couple weeks, and no, I haven’t abandoned those ideas about SCAN sensemaking and real-time decision-making and the like. Reality is that those ideas are very much in the ‘work…
Tagged with: belief, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, faith, paradigm, SCAN, sense-making, trust, values, worldview
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge
Belief and faith at the point of action
What is it that drives decisions at the exact moment of choice and action? – even in the most mundane, everyday action? If the choice-point itself is a true moment of chaos – a point where literally anything is possible…
Tagged with: belief, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, faith, paradigm, SCAN, sense-making, trust, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Society
For or against?
Looking at your enterprise vision – or any kind of future intent – is it defined in terms of being for something? Or against something? That distinction can sometimes seem subtle – yet it’s very important indeed… On the surface, it…
Tagged with: effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative, Society, values, vision, worldview
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
How do we make EA make sense?
Those notions of ‘whole-enterprise architecture’ that I’ve been describing in the ‘no-plan Plan‘ series of posts make solid sense to a fair few people – particularly those who’ve some experience of systems-thinking, design-thinking and the like. But it’s painfully clear…
Tagged with: change, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, motivation, narrative, organisational change, paradigm, RBPEA, requirements, social change, worldview
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
