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Not so wicked

May 9, 2014 by Tom Graves

Are we looking at wicked-problems in the wrong way? Does the term itself mislead us about how to work with them? Perhaps more to the point, should we be describing them as ‘wicked’ at all? Would another term be a…

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Categories complexity, Complexity / Structure, Decision making, effectiveness, Enterprise Architecture, SCAN, Sense Making, tame-problem, wicked-problem

Unbreaking

September 4, 2012 by Tom Graves

Current mainstream enterprise-architecture [EA] is broken, more broken and yet more broken, and has real problems with wickedness. But what can we do about this? How can we mend EA, make it unbroken? As in those posts linked-to above, I’d…

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Categories business, business-IT divide, complexity, Complexity / Structure, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, methodology, SCAN, wicked-problem

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