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Three kinds of chaos

December 18, 2020 by Tom Graves

There are three kinds of chaos. They’re fundamentally different from each other. Don’t mix them up… (For a quick overview of the themes in this post, see the video ‘Three kinds of chaos‘.) I was going to start this off …

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More on reframing entropy in business

January 17, 2013 by Tom Graves

My previous post on ‘Reframing entropy in business‘ kinda triggered off a veritable storm of correspondence, both in the comments and offline – hence seems it’s worth summarising and revisiting those themes here. Perhaps the first point is that yes,…

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Categories Complexity / Structure, counter-entropy, enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, entropy, SCAN Tags Life, paradigm

Reframing entropy in business

January 4, 2013 by Tom Graves

What is entropy? What – if anything – is its relevance to business? And how does chaos come into the picture? The physics definition of entropy is straightforward enough: it’s a corollary of the second law of thermodynamics, the way in which energy flows…

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