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Episode 2

Requisite Scatter

June 14, 2013 by Stuart Boardman

In my first blog on this site, ‘For What It’s Worth’, I referred to Ross Button’s Scatter Architecture.

Categories Architecture, complexity, determinism, Episode 2, Featured, Intuition, scatter, Technology Tags Simplicity

Mr Ashby’s Bright Idea

June 1, 2013 by Stuart Boardman

Great theories come in two sorts: the type that is so fundamentally foreign to one’s existing worldview that it’s a major effort to get your head round it (think Special Relativity here); and the type that is so staringly obvious that you can’t believe…

Categories Architecture, chaos, complexity, determinism, Episode 2, Featured, Great Ideas, scatter, the fractal organization, VSM Tags change, Simplicity

A Science of Enterprise Architecture? Really?

April 5, 2013 by Stuart Boardman

I’ve seen quite a few discussions over the last couple of years about whether enterprise architecture (EA) is amenable to disciplined, rigorous methods – sometimes described as a scientific approach. A lot of what I’ve seen strikes me as anything but s…

Categories Architecture, chaos, complexity, determinism, Einstein, Episode 2, Featured, Intuition, quantum mechanics Tags Simplicity

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