#kfleadership Excellent lecture at @TheKingsFund this evening by Professor Michael West. Here are some of my notes. When he left college West was short of money, so he took a job in the coal mines. Productivity was important to everyone, and the…
What architectures do we need for a society and economics that’d be viable and sustainable over the longer term? And how do we scale that down to the the everyday work we do at present in enterprise-architectures and the like? In the…
How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? For those who didn’t (or couldn’t!) read the full series, here’s a (shortish) summary of each of those (rather over-long) posts… From the Introduction Part of the work I’ve been doing at…
How do we work with change – and, especially, extreme-change – in an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the fifth in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are…
What’s the real role of money within design for an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? [Apologies, folks: this one's turned out to be really long, even by my usual standards - but unfortunately this theme is so darn controversial that it really does need the depth of…
Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical acceptance and use of this principle has created a cargo-cult mentality. Gunnar Hellekso has written a great article about the Cult of the Product. Compulsory reading for every Enterprise Architect.
What rights do we need to design for in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the third in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules – only…
What rules do we need in enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the second in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1: There are no rules – only guidelines Four…
How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? Yep, it’s that time of year again: the lead-up to the annual Integrated EA conference, where they allow me to go somewhat off-the-wall and present the current ‘big-idea’ that I’m…
Another Christmas, another cold. I just don’t seem well adapted for English winter… Nor for families either, I guess. In England at least, Christmas is both a religious festival and family festival – yet even at best I’ve never felt more than…
A number of bloggers have talked about the central importance of story-telling and sense-making in the architect's craft. So I wanted to highlight an interesting piece about Rowan Williams in the Guardian recently, with possible relevance to the practice of enterprise architecture…
Deal and Kennedy (1982) proposed a model of organizational culture, which depended on two factors, risk and the speed of feedback. Source: Deal and Kennedy Meanwhile, speed of feedback also affects organizational intelligence. Shorter feedback loops are associated with greater agility and…