metaphor

Companionship

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Companionship.
A calm kind of word. Quiet. Friendly. Supportive, enfolding – those kinds of feelings.
A companion is literally “someone with whom we share bread”. Hence companionship is that state, condition, process, experience, whatever, of ’sharing bread’ with companions.
So it’s an interesting word – and an especially interesting metaphor for enterprise-architecture.
In your enterprise, in your work-context, or elsewhere, […]

On ‘Time=Money’ and other metaphors

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“Gotta rush! Time equals money, ya know!”
But does it?
More accurately, are they ever actually equivalent?
It’s not a trivial question – because if they’re not equivalent, just how much damage is that metaphor doing to our enterprise-architectures, business-architectures and much else besides?
Closely related to this is another metaphor: “money equals value”. And that one can do […]