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Startups created as virtual cloud Enterprises today

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According to Gartner
“By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Toda…

April 2017 – Investigative Architecture Training

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We are pleased to announce our next Investigative Architecture Training which will be held in Lincoln, RI on April 13 & 14, 2017. It is an intensive, interactive two day training for architects, developers and other IT roles who want to take their architectural and diagramming skills to the next level. Practicing architects already understand […]

Organizations as Systems and Innovation

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Over the last year or so, the concept of looking at organizations as systems has been a major theme for me. Enterprises, organizations and their ecosystems (context) are social systems composed of a fractal set of social and software systems. As such, enterprises have an architecture. Another long-term theme for this site has been my […]

Patterns

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In addition to story narratvies, I’m planning to use ‘pattern’ format for describing the Change Design tools: Here’s an example that describes the Business Service Specification tool (BSS). I would also then go on to describe how it’s been used in two …

I Don’t Call Myself An Enterprise Architect

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… anymore.


A few people have asked why I call myself a Change Designer rather than an Enterprise Architect. The reason is simple: the EA label misrepresents what I do.


The popular understanding of  Enterprise Architect is:
  • attached to an I.T. view of the world – I’m not only focused on I.T.
  • often synonymous with large arcane frameworks like TOGAF – I dislike them
  • regarded as slow, top-down, big modelling up front etc – I prefer Dan Ward’s F.I.R.E. approach.


I use the title Change Designer because:
  • They are two simple words, that together, explain what I do – I Design Change (transformational or otherwise).
  • They don’t t limit me to only focus on I.T. – but, at the same time, they don’t exclude I.T.
  • Much of my thinking and toolset come from the world of “Design Thinking” (and Systems Thinking, Complexity Science etc.).


I guess I’m lucky in the sense I’m unemployable now, partly due to age but mostly due to temperament! 🙂 I’m more choosy about the things I work on where and when. All this means I don’t need to splash “Enterprise Architecture” and TOGAF all over my CV to find the next gig – and if I did, I’d probably not meet the client’s expectations!

Follow #foundindesign on Twitter to see what I’m up to these days.

The Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS) – Approved as ISO/IEC 20243:2015 and the O-TTPS Certification Program

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By The Open Group The increase of cybersecurity threats, along with the global nature of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), results in a threat landscape ripe for the introduction of tainted (e.g., malware-enabled or malware-capable) and counterfeit components into ICT … Continue reading →

The Four Focus Areas

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The four focus areas aren’t steps in a linear sense – they’re more like wash-cycles. Based on the dirtiness of the laundry is, it might be necessary to go around each cycle a few times. So depending on how ‘dirty’ your problem is; how complex, how big,…