Rules – EA Voices

7 years, 6 months ago

The Constitution of the Enterprise

by Enterprise Architecture Development Matters

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Values not practiced just pull the wool over the eyes of our stakeholders.
To make the Values happen, we should cascade them hierarchically, top down, from conceptual to practical, to Policies and Procedures. As a …

7 years, 6 months ago

The Enterprise Values and Policies harmonisation

by Enterprise Architecture Development Matters

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The Company Values establish, ideally, a standard to guide the behaviour of a company and its employees.
The Values, which state the expectations from the employee behaviour and company, are to steer the company decision making a…

7 years, 6 months ago

Applying in practice the company Values

by Enterprise Architecture Development Matters

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To be applied in practice, the company values must be embedded in every day behaviour, in enterprise processes, in meeting protocols, at regular reviews… so that any development, body and action shall consider them.
H…

7 years, 6 months ago

The Values of the Enterprise

by Enterprise Architecture Development Matters

We all have values, rules, policies, standards… in the enterprise that guide its operation, behaviour and further development. They keep the enterprise effective and honest, or, at least, they should.

Values are essentially a m…

11 years ago

The cyclist-shopper’s tale

by Tom Graves

You can’t go wrong if you follow the rules, right? But what happens when you come across something where the ‘rules’ don’t make sense – and yet you still try to hold on to the certainty of ‘the rules’? Or,…

Rules, principles, belief and faith

by Tom Graves

Following on from the previous post ‘Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test‘, there’s an important corollary about real-time sensemaking and and decision-making – it was in my notes for the post, but I forgot to include it, so I’ll do…

Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test

by Tom Graves

It started with one of those first-thing-in-the-morning ideas that seemingly turn up from nowhere: Principles create a bridge between order and chaos. Order is expressed in rules; principles are expressed in story. Order, principles and chaos: order is an abstraction…

Basics of consolidation

by Jörgen Dahlberg

Nothing new, just a reminder of how-to… There is perhaps nothing new in this post, still it may remind us of the fact that continuous improvement cycles should not stop. Five basic codes of conduct when doing consolidation Be inclusive – As you take inventory gather as much data as possible. Don’t be hampered by […]