Broken
It started with an anguished Skype-call from a colleague: “Have you seen this?”, he said. He was pretty upset about it: and after reading the post he’d pointed to, so was I. One of the major consultancies – a self-styled ‘thought-leader’…
Always remember the next larger context
Today I stumbled over a Tweet which contained following quote: “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”,Eliel Saarinen&…
Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret-Society
Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the […]
From Annoyances to Dragon1 Golden Principles
After a session with Mark Paauwe one summer evening, I determined to use my newly found technique on my client immediately the next day.The technique involves looking at the phenomena that annoys you, stakeholders, and users at large. By extrapolating …
GLUE Journeys
In my last post I have touched the concept of people in GLUE and where people are connected to the more computable part of GLUE:As promised I will not touch people in this post, but start writing about GLUE Journeys. But then again as with all my other…
The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III
This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…
The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III
This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…
Gillian Stamp on Effective Decision-Making
#orgintelligence I found an interesting chart on Gillian Stamp’s blog.
The chart illustrates two observations
“Organizational well-being depends on the interplay between challenges
and decision-making capabilities.”
“Where challenges exceed …
People in GLUE
In my last post I explored GLUE Roles and Responsibilities. Each GLUE Discipline does have a specific Role:A Role is assigned following the VARISC methodology to a GLUE Delivery which produces a GLUE Deliverable. GLUE Deliveries are organized in GLUE D…
The motivation dilemma
What’s the source of business-motivation? How are people motivated to do their work at work? If Dan Pink is right, the answer isn’t much to do with money – at least, not for anything more than the most robotic kinds…
About Business Architecture, BizBOK and business architects
Nick Malik, in this post discusses the business architecture definition of the BizBOK 2.1. For completion, the BizBOK 2.1 definition cited is: “A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to…
The egg-sorting machine
One of our more frequent challenges in enterprise-architecture is to get The Usual Suspects to understand that, yes, there are indeed many other kinds of technology than just the IT – and even if whatever-it-is has a computer in it,…