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Richard Veryard The UK government has withdrawn from its PLAN to cull badgers, but remains committed to its POLICY of culling badgers. Badger cull postponed until 2013 (Guardian 23 October 2012)Here’s a stab at a VPEC-t analysis …Values: We love badgers, they are so…
Heard an interesting story recently, from a software developer advocating Scrum. I shall omit the names of the companies and individuals, and I may get a few of the details wrong, to avoid embarrassing anyone.
Our hero was working for a mobile device …
@timharford’s article So Many Numbers, So Little Time yesterday prompted me to think about the causal relationship between regulation and complexity
There are at least three contrasting ideas about this relationship.
1. Red tape directly causes compl…
When the Norwegian Nobel committee awarded the Peace Prize to President Obama in 2009, commentators wondered which Obama was being honoured – the actual man who had been in office for less than a year and had as yet made little impact on world peace, o…
The next public dates for my workshops with Unicom are as follows.
Business Architecture Bootcamp (November 20th-21st)
Organizational Intelligence Workshop (November 22nd)
Architecture-Led Procurement (November 28th)
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@VenessaMiemis asks “If most people are self delusional, what’s the point of qualitative research?” @CoCreatr retorts “What if we are all self-delusional and need proof by qualitative research to become more accepting of it?”Of course organizations are…
“The IMF downgrades its growth forecasts and casts further doubt on Osborne meeting his debt target” reports @JJ_159 via @Spectator_CH. @EmmaLangman suggests (sadly) that that it is ‘our’ debt target by association. “What Chancellor chooses, the countr…
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#complexity @lawrencewilkes asks if business is “inherently complex”, or have businesses just allowed it to become so? Are there vested interests at work who are striving for complexity?
(In my blogpost on The Future of Enterprise Arc…
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#UnicomEA An excellent day at Unicom’s regular Enterprise Architecture Forum on September 27th in London. Here are some of the blogposts from the day.
Tom Graves (Tetradian)
At Unicom EA: breaking free from IT-centrism&nb…
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#UnicomEA Some interesting questions arising at the EA Forum yesterday. I’ll post the questions first, and then try and assemble a summary of the answers. (Other participants at the Forum are welcome to chip in.)
Are there any co…
@Christian_BB responded to my post Does Rigour Matter? with a comment “Rigour matters when building. It matters less when trying to get people converging.” I replied, “Rigour matters when building consensus. Unless you just want people to have a warm f…
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At yesterday’s EA Forum, a rich picture of the oil industry was presented by
Mesbah Khan, who then posed a question about the possible use of such a picture, for enterprise architecture and beyond.
Th…