Presentation for Integrated-EA 2015 (enterprise-architecture conference, London, March 2015)
Every enterprise-architecture needs to address not only the visible elements of the context, but also its invisible elements - information, connections between people, and purpose.
(The focus of the conference is enterprise-architecture for the Defence context - hence the decidedly military flavour of the overall slidedeck and some of the visual-jokes. There's also some new work on complexity and the SCAN sensemaking/decision-making framework, around the importance and interdependence of 'commander's intent' and real-world information-flows.)
Disintegrated EA? - how to fight against fragmentation of the architecture
What are the factors that cause fragmentation of an enterprise-architecture? And what can we do about them? Focussing more on the human-factors in enterprise-architecture, this presentation explores a set of meta-disciplines that can be used to guide EA practice - and 'Seven Sins of Dubious Discipline' that can lead us astray!
Presentation at Integrated-EA 2016, London, 2 March 2016
Integrated-EA http://www.integrated-ea.com/ is a conference on enterprise-architecture in Defence and related contexts - hence the military flavour of some of the content and visual-jokes in the slidedeck.
(In case the number of slides here causes you some concern: yes, it's almost 200 slides, but it's fast-paced - it all fits into a 30-minute conference-slot.)
Session for IASA ITARC Conference on digital-transformation, London, 26 May 2017: https://www.iasaglobal.org/itarc-london-may/
By definition a transformation will always be complex, often to extremes. So how can we, as architects, address all of that complexity, and still stay somewhat sane?
One long-proven answer is the humble checklist â a list of essential items that people tend to forget when the going gets tough. This session introduces a seven-point transformation-checklist for architects: purpose and story; scope and scale; governance; constraints; structure-flaws; test at the extremes; resistance to change.
This checklist can be used within almost any type of architecture-guided transformation. Weâll explore its practical application, usage and implications in a variety of real-world architecture contexts. But beware: you may be surprised at what a simple checklist can show youâŚ
My presentation for Open Group London #ogLON enterprise-architecture conference, October 2013
Classic enterprise-architectures seem to focus mainly on IT and replicable IT-based processes. By contrast, many business-contexts such as healthcare, recruitment, education, customer-service and retail, all need to emphasise 'mass-uniqueness' - individual difference or uniqueness at scale. This slidedeck explores some of the themes and techniques that can be used to develop enterprise-architectures with appropriate balance between 'same' and 'different'.
How do we explore the context for a business-architecture? Short-answer: raid the kids' toy-box!
This slidedeck provides a practical overview of how to explore and identify service-context or business-context, whilst developing a business-architecture. The key theme here is that it's easier to engage people in architecture-development if we make it both fun and thought-provoking, in an immediate, tangible way. As shown in the slidedeck, tools to do this include a wooden train-set and a Victorian toy-theatre - cheap, easily-obtainable and directly practical. Share And Enjoy!
Slidedeck for presentation at IASA-ITARC conference, London, 25 November 2016 - http://iasaglobal.org/itarc-london/
(Note: This is a big slidedeck - almost 75Mb. It'll take some time to download. But worth it, I trust!)
The dung-beetle's tale: systems-thinking, complexity and the real-worldTetradian Consulting
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Slidedeck for Integrated-EA conference, February 2014.
(It's a conference on enterprise-architecture in the Defence context, hence a somewhat military flavour and various military in-jokes.)
A 'mini-workshop' on insights from current developments and practice in enterprise-architecture (BCS-EA conference, London, October 2012)
The main part of the presentation is split into eight 'chunks', each tackling a single 'lesson-learnt' from trying to explain EA themes to others in real-world EA practice. Each 'chunk' is timed as around two minutes of background and overview (the bulk of the slides, between the respective 'Challenge' and 'Practice'), and then four minutes pair-discussion around the questions summarised on the respective 'Practice' slide. With two minutes at the start for overall lead-in, and ten minutes at the end for general discussion about what came up for participants during the Practice sections, this fits exactly into a one-hour time-slot.
(See http://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/lessonslearnt-in-ea-articulation-worksheet for the associated worksheet.)
Disintegrated EA? - how to fight against fragmentation of the architecture
What are the factors that cause fragmentation of an enterprise-architecture? And what can we do about them? Focussing more on the human-factors in enterprise-architecture, this presentation explores a set of meta-disciplines that can be used to guide EA practice - and 'Seven Sins of Dubious Discipline' that can lead us astray!
Presentation at Integrated-EA 2016, London, 2 March 2016
Integrated-EA http://www.integrated-ea.com/ is a conference on enterprise-architecture in Defence and related contexts - hence the military flavour of some of the content and visual-jokes in the slidedeck.
(In case the number of slides here causes you some concern: yes, it's almost 200 slides, but it's fast-paced - it all fits into a 30-minute conference-slot.)
Session for IASA ITARC Conference on digital-transformation, London, 26 May 2017: https://www.iasaglobal.org/itarc-london-may/
By definition a transformation will always be complex, often to extremes. So how can we, as architects, address all of that complexity, and still stay somewhat sane?
One long-proven answer is the humble checklist â a list of essential items that people tend to forget when the going gets tough. This session introduces a seven-point transformation-checklist for architects: purpose and story; scope and scale; governance; constraints; structure-flaws; test at the extremes; resistance to change.
This checklist can be used within almost any type of architecture-guided transformation. Weâll explore its practical application, usage and implications in a variety of real-world architecture contexts. But beware: you may be surprised at what a simple checklist can show youâŚ
My presentation for Open Group London #ogLON enterprise-architecture conference, October 2013
Classic enterprise-architectures seem to focus mainly on IT and replicable IT-based processes. By contrast, many business-contexts such as healthcare, recruitment, education, customer-service and retail, all need to emphasise 'mass-uniqueness' - individual difference or uniqueness at scale. This slidedeck explores some of the themes and techniques that can be used to develop enterprise-architectures with appropriate balance between 'same' and 'different'.
How do we explore the context for a business-architecture? Short-answer: raid the kids' toy-box!
This slidedeck provides a practical overview of how to explore and identify service-context or business-context, whilst developing a business-architecture. The key theme here is that it's easier to engage people in architecture-development if we make it both fun and thought-provoking, in an immediate, tangible way. As shown in the slidedeck, tools to do this include a wooden train-set and a Victorian toy-theatre - cheap, easily-obtainable and directly practical. Share And Enjoy!
Slidedeck for presentation at IASA-ITARC conference, London, 25 November 2016 - http://iasaglobal.org/itarc-london/
(Note: This is a big slidedeck - almost 75Mb. It'll take some time to download. But worth it, I trust!)
The dung-beetle's tale: systems-thinking, complexity and the real-worldTetradian Consulting
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Slidedeck for Integrated-EA conference, February 2014.
(It's a conference on enterprise-architecture in the Defence context, hence a somewhat military flavour and various military in-jokes.)
A 'mini-workshop' on insights from current developments and practice in enterprise-architecture (BCS-EA conference, London, October 2012)
The main part of the presentation is split into eight 'chunks', each tackling a single 'lesson-learnt' from trying to explain EA themes to others in real-world EA practice. Each 'chunk' is timed as around two minutes of background and overview (the bulk of the slides, between the respective 'Challenge' and 'Practice'), and then four minutes pair-discussion around the questions summarised on the respective 'Practice' slide. With two minutes at the start for overall lead-in, and ten minutes at the end for general discussion about what came up for participants during the Practice sections, this fits exactly into a one-hour time-slot.
(See http://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/lessonslearnt-in-ea-articulation-worksheet for the associated worksheet.)
Some of the key challenges in enterprise-architecture revolve around designing for uncertainty. This presentation for the Integrated-EA 2013 conference (Defence-oriented enterprise-architecture) explores four 'anarchist' principles that can be used for guidance in those challenges:
#1: There are no rules - only guidelines;
#2: There are no rights - only responsibilities
#3: Money doesn't matter - but values do
#4: Adaptability is everything - but don't forget the values
Keynote from Australasian Enterprise Architecture Conference, Sydney, 19 October 2015
http://enterprisearchitectureconference.com.au/
What is it that makes an enterprise into an enterprise? The answer is a storyâŚ
Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture start from technology â which works well enough if you are only working on the technology itself. But as enterprise-architecture expands outward into the business, or we need to work on âdigital transformationâ where people and their needs necessarily come to the fore, a technology centred approach starts to show its limitations.
This lively session introduces a complementary, more people-oriented approach to enterprise-architecture, built around a concept of âthe enterprise as storyâ. Weâll explore:
⢠what story is, in the context for enterprise-architecture
⢠how story acts as a unifying theme for the architecture
⢠how to identify and develop the enterprise-story
⢠how story underlies enterprise values and principles
⢠how story provides guidance and governance for information-architecture, technology-architecture, digital-transformation and service-design
After this session, youâll see your architecture with new eyes â open to new possibilities and new ways to engage with all of your stakeholders in the broader business. Share and Enjoy!
Slidedeck from Conferenz IT&EA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016; also an extended version of slidedeck for IASA Architecture Summit, Dublin, Ireland, July 2016
This provides an overview of whole-enterprise architecture, and how it differs from and extends classic IT-centric 'enterprise'-architecture. It also provides a practical overview of methods, including three worked-examples.
Serving the story: how process-management and enterprise-architecture work together in the overall enterprise.
Presentation and practical-exercises for BPM Portugal conference, April 2013.
Slide-deck from talk at BAEA EA Cafe, Heverlee, Belgium, 26 September 2013
Where do people fit within enterprise-architecture? This slidedeck explores why we need to include people-issues and people-themes in our EA, and gives a set of practical exercises on how to do this, using standard EA methods.
Slidedeck for keynote at Enterprise Architektura conference, Prague, 2 November 2017 - http://archforum.eu/
A unique reflection on different views of architecture. How to eliminate fears of change, work with cultural stereotypes, and how architecture is related to Czech black-humour and why we have a tendency, as architects, to cut ourselves down. Also, how the architect should prepare the 'battle-plan' and how to succeed in the fight itself.
(Description above adapted from original Czech text in the conference programme, via Google Translate - see http://archforum.eu/agenda/ .)
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA Thomas Wendt
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This presentation introduces a phenomenological understanding of how information organization evolved from modernism to postmodernism to...whatever era we're in now. It is based on a paper published in the Journal of Information Architecture and first presented at the Information Architecture Summit 2014.
branding / mess: some sketch ideas in the hope of a discussion a-small-lab
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sketch text about mess, innovation, branding.
published as part of installation for stimulus terrain at MOTAT
http://a-small-lab.com/motat/
stimulus terrain for innovation processes is a space at the Idea Collective / Innovation Hub at the Museum of Transport and Technology (Auckland, New Zealand).
This is part of a "dynamic, evolving, collaborative project that celebrates New Zealand's vibrant innovation culture" by pairing five diverse New Zealand innovators with artists and designers to illuminate the activity of innovation, ideation, creation and collaboration.
Attracting, retaining and getting the best from your architectsTetradian Consulting
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Meetup sessions at x:pand Melbourne and x:pand Sydney, October 2015
(hosted by x:pand and Australasian Architecture Network)
The Australasian Architecture Network has hosted a number of recent meet ups aimed at educating talented people across a range of new technologies and technical areas. This time weâre looking at something much more important, the people. In particular it will focus on how you can get the best from the Architects in your business and how they can deliver the best results to you.
It will look at the age old debate which always exists in this field between art and science, the creative vs. the coder. What types of projects require what types of people and how do you get the best results from such a diverse range of individuals.
ACS EA-SIG - Bridging enterprise-architecture and systems-thinkingTetradian Consulting
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Webinar for Australian Computer Society - Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group, September 2015
A core aim in Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Systems-Thinking (ST): things work better when they work together on purpose. For this to happen, we need guided conversations that are actually everyoneâs responsibility. What visual tools can we use to engage people in this?
This webinar introduces these concepts, and provides the tools and techniques need to bridge this gap. We will highlight some of the common approaches, frameworks and tools used in both of these highly related and important disciplines.
We will discuss how they can be used together and enhanced to deliver a common sense approach for everyday EA and ST practice. Included in this discussion is an introduction to the Enterprise Canvas, which is a powerful tool to enable visualisations of the enterprise by defining the services it offers and their relationships and interactions.
Presentation at Open Day on Enterprise-Architecture and Systems-Thinking, London, 21 October 2104, for SCiO (Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations) http://scio.org.uk/
This used my development-work on the Enterprise Canvas framework as a worked-example of how we might create tools to bridge the gaps between enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking, in support of organisations' needs.
(This slidedeck also provides a useful overview and primer for Enterprise Canvas itself.)
Presentation at Vlerick Business School, Brussels, 26 September 2014 - describes a variety of approaches, techniques and case-studies for mapping out the desired sequence of change in medium- to large-scale business-transformation.
Presentation for the IASA January 2016 eSummit on business-architecture - see http://iasaglobal.org/monthly-esummit/
Exploring the context of business-architecture: upwards to the big-picture, downwards to implementation, sideways to connections and qualities, and avoiding design-mistakes that take us backward to business-models that really don't work...
This is an old slidedeck (March 2006) that I rediscovered the other day on my filesystem, but it still seems relevant in that, even at that early stage, it illustrates strong crosslinks between enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking - particularly service-oriented architectures, the 'tetradian' dimensions (here as machines, knowledge, people and business-purpose), and a somewhat-extended version of Stafford Beer's classic Viable Systems Model. It's also slightly unusual in that it cross-references to FEAF (US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework) rather than TOGAF, as we'd found the latter to be unhelpful and misleading for that particular client. The client themselves were in the logistics industry - hence the pseudo-logo in the upper left of each slide.
It was a real presentation for a real client, presenting to other architects in our team some research I'd been doing, on how we could rethink our approach to enterprise-architecture as we started to break out of the classic IT-centric box. It's in a style I wouldn't use these days - way too many words! - and it's been somewhat 'de-identified' for reasons of commercial confidentiality, but otherwise it's exactly as presented to my colleagues at that client.
One minor note: the 'X/C/M/P' extensions to the Viable System Model, in slides 19, 20 and 28, relate to work we'd been doing at the time on integrating quality-system concerns - management of exceptions, corrective-action, issue-tracking and process-improvement - into both enterprise-architecture and the Viable System Model itself. I haven't seen any other reference to this type of integration, either before or since: it may be useful to quite a few people, on both the enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking sides of that discussion, and also to quality-system folks as well.
In short, yes, it's old, but it may still be useful for some folks in enterprise-architectures and elsewhere. Hope it helps, anyway.
Unpacking TOGAF's 'Phase B': Business Transformation, Business Architecture a...Tetradian Consulting
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The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a structured method for developing enterprise architectures. As standard, its 'Phase B', 'Business Architecture', is an IT-centric way of viewing the business: we need to 'unpack' it to move to a more holistic view of the enterprise in which IT takes a more realistic role.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, Paris, April 2007. Describes TOGAF 8.1, but most details apply as much to TOGAF 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2007]
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
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What do we do when weâre doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
PDF, audio, and voiceover are now available on designintechreport.wordpress.com
Todayâs most beloved technology products and services balance design and engineering in a way that perfectly blends form and function. Businesses started by designers have created billions of dollars of value, are raising billions in capital, and VC firms increasingly see the importance of design. The third annual Design in Tech Report examines how design trends are revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems in tech. This report covers related M&A activity, new patterns in creativity Ă business, and the rise of computational design.
Some of the key challenges in enterprise-architecture revolve around designing for uncertainty. This presentation for the Integrated-EA 2013 conference (Defence-oriented enterprise-architecture) explores four 'anarchist' principles that can be used for guidance in those challenges:
#1: There are no rules - only guidelines;
#2: There are no rights - only responsibilities
#3: Money doesn't matter - but values do
#4: Adaptability is everything - but don't forget the values
Keynote from Australasian Enterprise Architecture Conference, Sydney, 19 October 2015
http://enterprisearchitectureconference.com.au/
What is it that makes an enterprise into an enterprise? The answer is a storyâŚ
Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture start from technology â which works well enough if you are only working on the technology itself. But as enterprise-architecture expands outward into the business, or we need to work on âdigital transformationâ where people and their needs necessarily come to the fore, a technology centred approach starts to show its limitations.
This lively session introduces a complementary, more people-oriented approach to enterprise-architecture, built around a concept of âthe enterprise as storyâ. Weâll explore:
⢠what story is, in the context for enterprise-architecture
⢠how story acts as a unifying theme for the architecture
⢠how to identify and develop the enterprise-story
⢠how story underlies enterprise values and principles
⢠how story provides guidance and governance for information-architecture, technology-architecture, digital-transformation and service-design
After this session, youâll see your architecture with new eyes â open to new possibilities and new ways to engage with all of your stakeholders in the broader business. Share and Enjoy!
Slidedeck from Conferenz IT&EA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016; also an extended version of slidedeck for IASA Architecture Summit, Dublin, Ireland, July 2016
This provides an overview of whole-enterprise architecture, and how it differs from and extends classic IT-centric 'enterprise'-architecture. It also provides a practical overview of methods, including three worked-examples.
Serving the story: how process-management and enterprise-architecture work together in the overall enterprise.
Presentation and practical-exercises for BPM Portugal conference, April 2013.
Slide-deck from talk at BAEA EA Cafe, Heverlee, Belgium, 26 September 2013
Where do people fit within enterprise-architecture? This slidedeck explores why we need to include people-issues and people-themes in our EA, and gives a set of practical exercises on how to do this, using standard EA methods.
Slidedeck for keynote at Enterprise Architektura conference, Prague, 2 November 2017 - http://archforum.eu/
A unique reflection on different views of architecture. How to eliminate fears of change, work with cultural stereotypes, and how architecture is related to Czech black-humour and why we have a tendency, as architects, to cut ourselves down. Also, how the architect should prepare the 'battle-plan' and how to succeed in the fight itself.
(Description above adapted from original Czech text in the conference programme, via Google Translate - see http://archforum.eu/agenda/ .)
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA Thomas Wendt
Â
This presentation introduces a phenomenological understanding of how information organization evolved from modernism to postmodernism to...whatever era we're in now. It is based on a paper published in the Journal of Information Architecture and first presented at the Information Architecture Summit 2014.
branding / mess: some sketch ideas in the hope of a discussion a-small-lab
Â
sketch text about mess, innovation, branding.
published as part of installation for stimulus terrain at MOTAT
http://a-small-lab.com/motat/
stimulus terrain for innovation processes is a space at the Idea Collective / Innovation Hub at the Museum of Transport and Technology (Auckland, New Zealand).
This is part of a "dynamic, evolving, collaborative project that celebrates New Zealand's vibrant innovation culture" by pairing five diverse New Zealand innovators with artists and designers to illuminate the activity of innovation, ideation, creation and collaboration.
Attracting, retaining and getting the best from your architectsTetradian Consulting
Â
Meetup sessions at x:pand Melbourne and x:pand Sydney, October 2015
(hosted by x:pand and Australasian Architecture Network)
The Australasian Architecture Network has hosted a number of recent meet ups aimed at educating talented people across a range of new technologies and technical areas. This time weâre looking at something much more important, the people. In particular it will focus on how you can get the best from the Architects in your business and how they can deliver the best results to you.
It will look at the age old debate which always exists in this field between art and science, the creative vs. the coder. What types of projects require what types of people and how do you get the best results from such a diverse range of individuals.
ACS EA-SIG - Bridging enterprise-architecture and systems-thinkingTetradian Consulting
Â
Webinar for Australian Computer Society - Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group, September 2015
A core aim in Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Systems-Thinking (ST): things work better when they work together on purpose. For this to happen, we need guided conversations that are actually everyoneâs responsibility. What visual tools can we use to engage people in this?
This webinar introduces these concepts, and provides the tools and techniques need to bridge this gap. We will highlight some of the common approaches, frameworks and tools used in both of these highly related and important disciplines.
We will discuss how they can be used together and enhanced to deliver a common sense approach for everyday EA and ST practice. Included in this discussion is an introduction to the Enterprise Canvas, which is a powerful tool to enable visualisations of the enterprise by defining the services it offers and their relationships and interactions.
Presentation at Open Day on Enterprise-Architecture and Systems-Thinking, London, 21 October 2104, for SCiO (Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations) http://scio.org.uk/
This used my development-work on the Enterprise Canvas framework as a worked-example of how we might create tools to bridge the gaps between enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking, in support of organisations' needs.
(This slidedeck also provides a useful overview and primer for Enterprise Canvas itself.)
Presentation at Vlerick Business School, Brussels, 26 September 2014 - describes a variety of approaches, techniques and case-studies for mapping out the desired sequence of change in medium- to large-scale business-transformation.
Presentation for the IASA January 2016 eSummit on business-architecture - see http://iasaglobal.org/monthly-esummit/
Exploring the context of business-architecture: upwards to the big-picture, downwards to implementation, sideways to connections and qualities, and avoiding design-mistakes that take us backward to business-models that really don't work...
This is an old slidedeck (March 2006) that I rediscovered the other day on my filesystem, but it still seems relevant in that, even at that early stage, it illustrates strong crosslinks between enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking - particularly service-oriented architectures, the 'tetradian' dimensions (here as machines, knowledge, people and business-purpose), and a somewhat-extended version of Stafford Beer's classic Viable Systems Model. It's also slightly unusual in that it cross-references to FEAF (US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework) rather than TOGAF, as we'd found the latter to be unhelpful and misleading for that particular client. The client themselves were in the logistics industry - hence the pseudo-logo in the upper left of each slide.
It was a real presentation for a real client, presenting to other architects in our team some research I'd been doing, on how we could rethink our approach to enterprise-architecture as we started to break out of the classic IT-centric box. It's in a style I wouldn't use these days - way too many words! - and it's been somewhat 'de-identified' for reasons of commercial confidentiality, but otherwise it's exactly as presented to my colleagues at that client.
One minor note: the 'X/C/M/P' extensions to the Viable System Model, in slides 19, 20 and 28, relate to work we'd been doing at the time on integrating quality-system concerns - management of exceptions, corrective-action, issue-tracking and process-improvement - into both enterprise-architecture and the Viable System Model itself. I haven't seen any other reference to this type of integration, either before or since: it may be useful to quite a few people, on both the enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking sides of that discussion, and also to quality-system folks as well.
In short, yes, it's old, but it may still be useful for some folks in enterprise-architectures and elsewhere. Hope it helps, anyway.
Unpacking TOGAF's 'Phase B': Business Transformation, Business Architecture a...Tetradian Consulting
Â
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a structured method for developing enterprise architectures. As standard, its 'Phase B', 'Business Architecture', is an IT-centric way of viewing the business: we need to 'unpack' it to move to a more holistic view of the enterprise in which IT takes a more realistic role.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, Paris, April 2007. Describes TOGAF 8.1, but most details apply as much to TOGAF 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2007]
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
Â
What do we do when weâre doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
PDF, audio, and voiceover are now available on designintechreport.wordpress.com
Todayâs most beloved technology products and services balance design and engineering in a way that perfectly blends form and function. Businesses started by designers have created billions of dollars of value, are raising billions in capital, and VC firms increasingly see the importance of design. The third annual Design in Tech Report examines how design trends are revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems in tech. This report covers related M&A activity, new patterns in creativity Ă business, and the rise of computational design.
Roger Sessions - The Snowman Architectureiasaglobal
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It is time for a Radical Transformation of IT. IT projects must be smaller, cheaper, and better aligned with the needs of the business. Simplicity must be a key design feature of every IT project. Projects must be delivered in months, not years. And in this new vision of a transformed IT, it is not IT's responsibility to tell the business what it can do, it is the business's responsibility to tell IT what it must do. Enterprise Architecture can be at the forefront of this vision, but only if it is revamped so that its purpose is no longer delivering useless paperwork, but facilitating high value IT projects. This transformation starts with a Snowman.
This answers one of the key unacknowledged questions in enterprise-architecture: what exactly is 'the enterprise'? We can only develop a viable enterprise-architecture when we know the scope of 'the enterprise': most current EA models and frameworks place limits on scope that are far too narrow and organization-centric.
This presentation focuses on evaluating the Degree of Systemicity (and applicability) of the EBMM-TRIADS based on the novel Integrative Propositional Analysis (IPA).
Presentation from October 4, 2015: Arts Midwest Orchestras 20/20: Context, Connection, Collaboration. An attempt to lay out the context of audience, competition, technology and strategy - then a set of practical steps to get things done.
My presentation for Theorizing the Web 2013, delivered on 2 March 2013 in New York. Slides 3 and 4 have some ghost writing and I'm not sure why- some sort of uploading glitch. Slide 20 is supposed to be a video clip, which could not be uploaded, you can find here: http://youtu.be/tnzdD5_zwxg If you want the uncorrupted slides, email me at jantleyATgmailDOTcom.
Slides for the Cardiff Web Scene meet up #4. I'm arguing for imperfection rather than perfection, for getting things done rather than thinking about getting things done...
The emergence of "soft power" in marketing and communications.
A view of understanding coalitions for and against a brand -- taken from the world of Influence Operations
Presentation at Aalto University marketing forum, Helsinki
Tim Estes - Generating dynamic social networks from large scale unstructured ...Digital Reasoning
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Tim Estes, CEO of Digital Reasoning, delivered this presentation at the Strata Conference (Feb 2011). It discusses how large scale blog data can be mined to yield social networks of influencers, connections, discussion topics, etc.
Mobile UX London Conference Talk. ANDREW MCGRATH, Designing for Alien LifeNaveed R
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Mobile User Experience Conference in London 2016 (http://mobileuxlondon.com) - Andrew McGrath, Head of UX at Thomson Reuters.
Designing outside the consumer space is a hard shift: Can one even understand the use cases behind Mergers and Acquisitions lawyers or FX Traders let alone grasp deeper motivations or build empathy for them? And how then can you optimise for mobile where hard choices and simplification are key? If you cannot understand them and you cannot easily observe them then how do you succeed? This talk will explore the challenges of being a user centred designer in this environment and identify some strategies to successfully deliver.
The First of Me! Insights from the Future of Digital at SxSW 2019InĂŞs Almeida
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What does the title of a corny Hoobastank song have to do with SXSW 2019 takeaways? Absolutely everything. In this talk, we will explore the next frontier in personalisationâthe trends, benefits and potential unintended consequences of Relevancy 2.0. Then we will focus on what organisations must do now to finally put the personal back into personalisation.
The Future of Marketing: Make Things People Want or Make People Want Things?John V Willshire
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Why the future of marketing depends on rebalancing our choice between creating demand, or exploting demand. Make People Want Things, or Make Things People Want?
What is data-driven architecture? And if we use one, what data should we use to drive it?
A data-driven architecture should provide many real advantages - timeliness, self-adapting to change, and more anchored in the real-world context. Yet we can only reach those advantages when we have the right data - so how do we identify the right data to use?
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(This slidedeck includes extensive links to further sources of information - blog-posts, videos and other slidedecks.)
Webinar on power, leadership and change, for the Strategy, Execution and Leadership meetup, Adelaide, July 2020
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Webinar on sensemaking and action for planning and response to disruption, in business, in the family and in the community.
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Enterprise-architecture used to be about IT and not much else: but not any more. These days, enterprise-architects in digital-transformation and the like must negotiate an ever-expanding maze of perspectives and conflicts across every aspect of the organisation and beyond.
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The Ecology of Enterprise
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Invisible Armies: information, purpose and the real enterprise
1. Invisible armies
information, purpose and the real enterprise
Tom Graves, Tetradian Consulting
Integrated EA Conference, London, March 2015
the futures of business
84. Every business is
also an information-business
Every business is
also a relations-business
85. Every business is
also an information-business
Every business is
also a relations-business
Every business is
also a purpose-business
86. Every business is
also an information-business
Every business is
also a relations-business
Every business is
also a purpose-business
All of these, together, always
99. Remember SCAN, from last year?
NOW!
certain uncertain
âSimpleâ
(ENACT)
âNot-knownâ
(EXPLORE)
edge of
panic
âComplicatedâ
(EVALUATE)
âAmbiguousâ
(EXPERIMENT)
edge of
uncertainty
edge of
innovation
edge of
action
before
100. with all those feedback-loops?
NOW!
certain uncertain
âSimpleâ
(ENACT)
âNot-knownâ
(EXPLORE)
edge of
panic
fears
options
âComplicatedâ
(EVALUATE)
âAmbiguousâ
(EXPERIMENT)
edge of
uncertainty
questions
answers
news
principles
edge of
innovationrealitie
s
rules edge of
action
before
101. Letâs use this in another way
NOW!
certain uncertain
PRACTICE
THEORY
fingerspitzengefĂźhl
(realities)
auftragstaktik
(guidance)
edge of
action
before
PLAN
ACTION
102. Plan versus action
NOW!
before
certain uncertain
PLAN
What we plan to do, in the expected conditions
What we actually do, in the actual conditions
ACTION
edge of
action
105. Feedback for plan and action
NOW!
before
certain uncertain
PLAN
ACTION
(we need
feedback loops
between plan
and action)
fingerspitzengefĂźhl
(realities)
auftragstaktik
(guidance)
(depends on
personal connection,
personal trust)
(depends on
sensing, feeling,
an often-literal
âbeing in touchâ)
107. Without connection to
purpose, what we get is
POSIWID â âthe purpose of
the system is what it doesâ
which could be anythingâŚ
Why auftragstaktik?
108. Without connection to reality,
decisions are made on
assumptions and
guesswork
Not A Good IdeaâŚ
Why fingerspitzengefĂźhl?
109. keep things real
â donât mistake
âpolicy-based evidenceâ
for evidence-based policyâŚ
110. information about a thing
is not the thing itself
information about a connection
is not the connection itself
information about purpose
is not the purpose itself
115. Four layersâŚ
NOW!
before
certain uncertain
PLAN
ACTION
concrete world
abstract world
information world
(abstract)
information world
(concrete)
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
intent /
decision
observation /
interpretation
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
116. Five layersâŚ
NOW!
before
certain uncertain
PLAN
ACTION
concrete world
abstract world
information world
(abstract)
information world
(concrete)
information world
(disconnectâŚ)
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
intent /
decision
observation /
interpretation
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
117. Army has seventeen layers!
NOW!
before
certain uncertain
PLAN
ACTION
concrete world
abstract world
information only?
(disconnectâŚ)
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
intent /
decision
observation /
interpretation
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
observation /
interpretation
intent /
decision
118. How can a mid-rank officer
stuck behind a desk in a city
know and understand
whatâs happening
and what needs to happen
out in the field?
119. â as architects,
itâs our task to identify
the support thatâs needed
to make that happenâŚ
not just âpossible to happenâ,
but as probable as possible
for it to happen
120. Which information?
In an ecology,
the crucial interactions
will often be visible
only at the edgesâŚ
121. Information as unified wholeâŚ
NOW!
certain uncertain
before
(structured data
embedded within
unstructured
nuances)
122. âŚwith the crusts cut offâŚ
NOW!
certain uncertain
before
(unstructured
nuances)
(structured
data)
(unstructured
nuances)
123. âŚand split apart
NOW!
certain uncertain
before
fundamental
disconnect
chaotic mess?
simplistic delusion?
(structured data
without context)
(unstructured nuances
without continuity)
125. Nuances matter!
how will your architecture
support and maintain
â the human connection?
â the subtle details?
126. âIn an insurgency,
every action and inaction
by any soldier
will be interpreted as
a political statementâ
Nuances matter!
127. If nuances are carried throughâŚ
NOW!
certain uncertain
before
PLAN
ACTION
fingerspitzengefĂźhl
(realities)
auftragstaktik
(guidance)
political awareness
intended impacts
132. without those nuancesâŚ
NOW!
before
certain uncertain
PLAN
POSIWID
muddled chaosâŚ
âinexplicableâ political impacts
(garbled
simplification)
(garbled
simplification)
(imaginary world
of sanitised info)
fingerspitzengefĂźhl
(realities)
auftragstaktik
(guidance)
133. key information may be missedâŚ
order from Lord Raglan to Lord Lucan, Balaklava, 25 October 1854
142. HMS Victoria, 1893
Public-domain: James Alexander Collot via Wikipedia
âEven then, they still waited for
permission to take the action which
might have prevented the collisionâ
180. Contact: Tom Graves
Company: Tetradian Consulting
Email: tom@tetradian.com
Twitter: @tetradian ( http://twitter.com/tetradian )
Weblog: http://weblog.tetradian.com
Slidedecks: http://www.slideshare.net/tetradian
Publications: http://tetradianbooks.com
Books: ⢠The enterprise as story: the role of narrative in enterprise-
architecture (2012)
⢠Mapping the enterprise: modelling the enterprise as services
with the Enterprise Canvas (2010)
⢠Everyday enterprise-architecture: sensemaking, strategy,
structures and solutions (2010)
⢠Doing enterprise-architecture: process and practice in the
real enterprise (2009)
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