Explicit, Implicit, and Inferred Relationships

You can look at the world around us as categorized into three kinds of relationships – Explicit, Implicit, and Inferred. Using Rational System Architect, you can automatically visualize all of these relationships on any diagram type.

Observations on Capability Driven Management

I’m finalizing my presentation for Business Ecology Initiative’s Optimization for Innovation conference slated for March 22nd in Washington DC.  Initially, I was approaching it as a humorous rejoinder on how to cope with taking the reigns of an or…

Possessed by possession?

In case you hadn’t noticed, there are some big changes happening right now in the wider world… Lots and lots of them, at every scale and in just about every major context, from political to social, environmental to technological, and much else besides.
Myself, I look at all of these things with an enterprise-architect’s eye – […]

At Integrated EA conference

Spent part of this week at the Integrated Enterprise Architecture conference in London. And for me, it was a real refreshing change from the usual banks / insurance / finance / tax focus of most of what passes for ‘enterprise’-architecture these days. Instead of the (literally) imaginary world of money and information, almost all of the […]