Emergent Business Strategy → Execution ←And Back
Following my recent article ‘Still Building Shanty Towns’, this post describes a strategy/execution loop using an adaptive change style….
The State of Enterprise Architecture in 2022 Survey
BiZZdesign launches its annual the State of Enterprise Architecture Survey. Following nearly two years of pandemic disruption, are Enterprise Architects closer to or further from the top table? Two years of pandemic disruption have made the speed of change the number one business imperative. Most organizations have had little appetite for slow and incremental process…
Still Building Shanty Towns
Dear Reader: It saddens me that I feel it necessary to repeat the lesson’s taught by forward-thinking organisations over 30 years ago….
Building Strategic Architecture Incrementally
SAFE 5.0 Concepts for Strategic Architecture
Highlights of 2021, Peek into 2022
By Steve Nunn, President and CEO, The Open Group Happy New Year! I hope that, wherever you are reading this, 2022 has started well for
On Organizations and Machines
My previous post Where does learning take place? was prompted by a Twitter discussion in which some of the participants denied that organizational learning was possible or meaningful. Some argued that any organizational behaviour or intention could be …
On Organizations and Machines
My previous post Where does learning take place? was prompted by a Twitter discussion in which some of the participants denied that organizational learning was possible or meaningful. Some argued that any organizational behaviour or intention could be …
Wanted: IT advisor. No real IT insight required.
IT is one of the few fields where it is generally considered you do not need to understand it to make decisions about it.For good IT advisors, the kind that actually understand what they are advising about, the phrase ‘we need an IT advisor who above a…
Where does learning take place?
This blogpost started with an argument on Twitter. Harish Jose quoted the organization theorist Ralph Stacey:Organizations do not learn. Organizations are not humans. @harish_josevThis was reinforced by someone who tweets as SystemsNinja, suggesting th…
Where does learning take place?
This blogpost started with an argument on Twitter. Harish Jose quoted the organization theorist Ralph Stacey:Organizations do not learn. Organizations are not humans. @harish_josevThis was reinforced by someone who tweets as SystemsNinja, suggesting th…
Where am I? How we got here?
I received two important books for Christmas this year. Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes – How we got here, where we might go next (Jonathan Cape, 2021)Bruno Latour, After lockdown – A metamorphosis (trans Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2021)Here are my first i…
Where am I? How we got here?
I received two important books for Christmas this year. Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes – How we got here, where we might go next (Jonathan Cape, 2021)Bruno Latour, After lockdown – A metamorphosis (trans Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2021)Here are my first i…