The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does

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This is some dot points from an excellent article by Richard Veryard discussing Stafford Beer’s maxim that the “Purpose Of a System Is What It Does” or “POSIWID“. Richard points…

Frameworks and skills

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Here’s an interesting comment from a newsgroup

“More seriously, this is an areas rife with confusing and badly understood terminology – I should know, I’ve been using it for a couple of decades. In context I was referring to the bits and pieces boug…

Frameworks and skills

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Here’s an interesting comment from a newsgroup

“More seriously, this is an areas rife with confusing and badly understood terminology – I should know, I’ve been using it for a couple of decades. In context I was referring to the bits and pieces boug…

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Enterprise POSIWID

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#bizarch #entarch #POSIWID As anyone knows who has attempted serious business and organizational transformation, an enterprise can be as stubborn as a teenager. Complex systems have strong feedback loops that maintain and restore the status quo against…

Enterprise POSIWID

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#bizarch #entarch #POSIWID As anyone knows who has attempted serious business and organizational transformation, an enterprise can be as stubborn as a teenager. Complex systems have strong feedback loops that maintain and restore the status quo against…

What is Enterprise Architecture? – A presentation review of Erik Dörnenburg

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This is some notes that I took whilst watching a presentation by Erik Dörnenburg (@erikdoe), Head of Technology Europe at ThoughtWorks. The presentation is titled “What is enterprise architecture?” and…