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1 month, 9 days ago

Three kinds of chaos

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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Categories #eavoices, business, certainty, chaos, Complexity / Structure, counter-entropy, Enterprise Architecture, entropy, order, SCAN, Uncertainty Tags #eavoices, control
8 years, 10 days ago

More on reframing entropy in business

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
8 years, 23 days ago

Reframing entropy in business

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

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