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Can complex-systems be ‘architected’?

December 3, 2013 by Tom Graves

A great question from Jeff Sussna, as a follow-on to my ‘manifesto‘ post: RT @jeffsussna: @tetradian question: can complex systems like your ‘enterprise’ actually be ‘architected’? And yeah, it’s also a tricky question, because a lot of any answer depends…

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