Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Designing businesses is not a trivial activity. Having a simple structure that one can use to design and / or understand a capability makes designing business architecture so much easier. More to come on this topic during 2015. The Capability Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Designing and understanding brands and how the behave as figments of their own is hard enough. Having a simple structure that one can use to design and / or understand a brand makes designing businesses so much easier. More details to come on this topic… The Brand Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative […]
As a teaser for the new year I thought I’d release The Change Canvas (TCC). Much more to come on this and related topics during 2015. The Change Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
How do we do roadmapping in enterprise-architecture – developing the plan for change, and keeping to that change? How do we adjust to changes in the change itself? A great session on this last week at Vlerick Business School, in…
I come alive watching children play, learn, explore, share, grow into new possibilities. I die inside watching so many adults – including myself, at times – so often and so assiduously avoid doing any of those things… What is it…
What’s the point of governance? What is its role in enterprise-architecture, or anything else, for that matter? Is it anything more than the dreaded ‘architecture police’ – governance for governance’s sake? These questions came up for me in a passing…
Let’s be clear. Sustainability is about a lot more than just environmental policy. Making our footprint on the planet bearable (for the planet) will only succeed on the basis of social equity and economic viability. And not everyone is delighted about that. All Your Natural Resources Are Belong To Us A few weeks ago I happened […]
The old analogy is of a graceful Swan seemingly effortlessly gliding through the water, whilst out of sight its submerged legs are kicking furiously in unseen effort.
The ‘Inverted Swan’ is the antithesis of the traditional analogy. The swans legs are out of the water flailing and flapping ineffectively in the air, whilst underneath the water, who knows? where is the grace in the work?
I see the inverted Swan more than i’d like to. Lots of industry with little value produced. Often caused by:
There should always be room for grace.
There should always be room to progress from merely viable to loveable.
When do you see the inverted swan?
How could we make sure we see it less?
Do you believe in magic? Most people don’t. But this isn’t about magic as such – it’s about belief: in particular, Gooch’s Paradox, that “things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to…
Do you believe in magic? [Yep, this one is long – more than 7000 words, or long even by my somewhat-extreme standards for blogging. But there are good reasons why it needs to be this long, as you’ll discover later – and…
As I set off on my Sunday morning run, I said to myself “don’t think about your blog”. I’d been having trouble getting this blog to work. I wanted to write about the relationship between circular economy and other fundamental changes that people are trying to achieve – but it kept coming out abstract and, […]
Last week I tweeted If corporations were socially responsible, we wouldn’t need a name for it. and was taken aback by how many retweets I got for it. It obviously struck a chord with a lot of folks. And, picking up on my previous post, it has everything to do with how vested interests respond […]