4 days ago
Protect your digital legacy
How will you protect your digital legacy? Do you know what that legacy is? Or where it is? And what would happen – or not-happen – if all of that legacy of work is lost? For me, this point was…
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13 days ago
The Unguru
I was thinking about the role expertise plays in the effectiveness of our businesses, programs, projects and other enterprise efforts. It often strikes me that too many people are involved, saying too many words, for too much time. Why is this so? It d…
1 month, 15 days ago
Where have all the good skills gone?
[to the tune of “Where have all the flowers gone?”] Where have all the good skills gone? Long time passing Where have all the good skills gone? Long time ago Where have all the good skills gone? Gone to robots…
1 month, 17 days ago
On skills: 10, 100, 1000, 10000 hours
10; 100; 1000; 10000. A lot of things those numbers could apply to, of course, but in this case they’re ballpark figures for the number of hours of learning-based practice that it takes to develop specific levels of skill. (We…
1 month, 30 days ago
Change-mapping: Plan and Action
In the Change-mapping method, what exactly is Action? Doesn’t action happen everywhere? The short-answer to that second question is actually ‘Yes’ – action does indeed happen everywhere. In which case, you might ask, what’s the point of having Action as…
4 months, 18 days ago
An Alternative to the DIKW Pyramid
My 2012 post on the Co-Production of Data and Knowledge offered a critique of the #DIKW pyramid. When challenged recently to propose an alternative schema, I drew something quickly on the wall, against a past-present-future timeline. Here is a cleaned-…
6 months, 9 days ago
Building-blocks for a viable business-architecture
What’s the minimum that we need as a base for a viable business-architecture? That’s a shorter summary for a multi-part question recently sent to me by Chilean business-architect Richard Moira Lupin: What should a company have, what maturity, what capacity, what…
1 year, 6 months ago
Confirming the direction
Yeah, it’s been a while since I wrote anything new here… – kind of overdue for Normal Service Will Be Resumed and all that…? But yes, I am still here, still working, still pushing onward. And gratified to see that, yes,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Intimations of arrogance? – an addendum
Carrying on from the previous post, with a bit of an explanation about why I’m becoming so much of ‘a grumpy old guy’… Here’s the blunt fact: I’m not a good thinker. I know that. Too many gaps in my knowledge,…
1 year, 11 months ago
Intimations of arrogance from a grumpy old guy?
Okay, I admit it: I’m at real risk right now of becoming a grumpy old guy: Getting snappy at people on LinkedIn and all that. More than a fair bit of that phrase about “Will not suffer fools gladly”. Patience strained…
2 years, 4 days ago
Toolsets for enterprise-architecture – another try
What tools and toolsets do we need, to support our work in the architecture of the enterprise as a whole? The short and more cynical answer is “Not what we have right now”. To be blunt, maybe none of the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Documenting the Not-known
In our work on simplifying the ‘inventory’ of tools and techniques I’d developed for whole-enterprise architecture and the like, one of the challenges we keep hitting up against is how to capture ideas, information and insights, as they appear during…