Avenues of thought to explore

Get your objectives right

As the last post of 2012 I’d like to lead the way to the thinking of Russel Ackoff. There is a lot more of Russel Ackoff to be found on the web.

Consumable architectures

Each dimension has its own architecture. Each architecture has its own lifecycle. Each architecture is part of the whole. Each architecture can be related to a set of solutions. Each solution can be related to a set of architectures. Careful consideration must…

The core questions need to be answered

The world is complicated, it may even be down right complex sometimes. We all know this, but what we don’t know is that we don’t need to bring that in to the formulation of the basic questions we seek to answer. To…

How would you know that the architecture is right?

Not a simple question to answer, but perhaps we can find some guidance in Aldo Leopold’s statement “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tend otherwise.”…

The demographics of the enterprise

Have you ever thought of the demographics of the enterprise, how people and applications of technology fluctuate across the timeline, ever close and dependent but never the same. It is as if they where different population groups within the corporate context, struggling…

Something to think about

Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do,…

An awesome quote and a book tip

“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact,…
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