Tom Graves / Tetradian

Another slidedeck that I should have uploaded to Slideshare ages ago: a quick (8-slide) answer to the question  ’What is effectiveness?‘.

Understanding overall effectiveness is a core concern for enterprise-architectures, and for all of its subsidiary domain-architectures within the enterprise. The key idea here is that there are five distinct dimensions to effectiveness:

• efficient: makes the best use of available resources
• reliable: can be relied upon to deliver the required service
• elegant: supports simplicity, clarity and other human factors
• appropriate: is ‘on purpose’
• integrated: links everything together across the whole context

Businesses tend to focus obsessively on efficiency, almost to the exclusion of everything else; but we won’t achieve effectiveness overall unless we rotate our attention continuously across all of those dimensions, in a consistent and balanced way.

Here it is, anyway: another one to Share and Enjoy?

Related posts:

1. Slidedeck: Introduction to SCORE
2. Effectiveness and Anecdote
3. Two Cryptic conversations
4. Context-space mapping with the Enterprise Canvas
5. Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 2: Business context