A week in Tweets: 28 Feb-6 Mar 2010
March 10th, 2010
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Another week, another month, and it’s back to the usual collection of Tweets and links. Usual layout, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.
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A week in Tweets: 21-27 Feb 2010
February 28th, 2010
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It’s another week. Which means another exciting (or somesuch) collection of Tweets and links. Which – yes, as you’d no doubt expect – means the usual categories preceded by the usual ‘Read more…’ link.
Over to you if you’re interested, anyway. 
A week in Tweets: 14-20 Feb 2010
February 26th, 2010
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It’s another week of Tweets and links – somewhat late due to overload elsewhere. Usual categories, usual ‘Read more…’ link.
Alternatives to the ‘Cynefin’ term, please?
February 22nd, 2010
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As may be seen from his comments to my previous posts on ‘Cynefin and chaos’, Dave Snowden has expressed extreme displeasure at my/our usage of the term ‘Cynefin’ to describe the solution-space nominally described by the Cynefin framework.
Anyone have any suggestions for an alternate term that could be used for this purpose, please?
Many thanks.
More on chaos and Cynefin
February 21st, 2010
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Another ‘exploratory’, following on from the previous post on ‘Complexity, Chaos and Enterprise Architecture‘, in terms of the Cynefin framework, and again developing out of Dave Snowden’s excellent webinar on complexity and ‘abductive reasoning’.
Cynefin framework (original (c) Dave Snowden / Cognitive-Edge c.2003)
Cynefin is probably one of the most useful conceptual tools that I hold in my ‘consultant’s toolkit’. It is an enormously powerful and enlightening framework to understand the relationships between the simple, the complicated and the complex, and to understand why long-proven approaches such as Taylorism and Six Sigma can sometimes (or often, these days) go spectacularly wrong.
Yet for several years now – in fact pretty much since I first encountered Cynefin – I’ve been concerned that there’s been very little attention paid to the role of the Chaotic domain. So that’s the theme I want to tackle here: how may we reclaim the Chaotic, to make Cynefin more complete?
(I’d better say upfront that there’ll be a fair amount here that Dave and others may disagree with, sometimes quite vehemently – and that’s okay, because this is definitely a ‘work in progress’, and probably with gaping holes in the reasoning in places. I need that critique if this is going to work in practice. In no way do I consider that any of the other work in Cynefin is somehow ‘wrong’ – particularly not the work that Dave and others have been doing in the Complex space, which I regard as crucially important in business and elsewhere. All I’m suggesting here is that perhaps we need to approach the Chaotic domain with the same degree of discipline as we do with the others – and not simply ‘run away’ to the Simple or the Complex as soon as we hit the Chaotic, which is about all that standard Cynefin offers at the moment.)
This one will again be long (my apologies…), but should be useful to anyone who’s familiar with Cynefin, or has any practical concerns about how to handle inherent uncertainties in business and elsewhere. More after the ‘Read more…’ link, anyway.
A week in Tweets: 7-13 Feb 2010
February 18th, 2010
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And it’s back with another collection of Tweets and links, usual categories, usual mixtures, usual ‘Read more…’ link:
A week in Tweets: 31 Jan – 6 Feb 2010
February 10th, 2010
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Another week, another collection of Tweets and links…
A handful of extended conversations, and a special section on the TOGAF conference in Seattle. Beyond that it’s the usual categories that I hope you find useful, preceded by the usual ‘Read more…’ link:
A week in Tweets: 24-30 Jan 2010
February 5th, 2010
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Oops – running late again. The week’s usual collections and categories, with a few extra discussions on specific topics – which is why it’s a fair bit longer than usual. Click on the ‘Read more…’ link, anyway.
The enterprise is the story
January 26th, 2010
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Every enterprise has a story, of course – many of them, in fact. Yet there’s also a deeper story that defines the enterprise itself, what the enterprise is. It’s not just that the enterprise has a story: the enterprise is a story.
What’s special about the enterprise-story is that every participant in the enterprise chooses to engage with that story. In a sometimes very literal sense, they each see themselves within the story. So how could and should that story be told, by whom, in what forms, via what means or media? And since it’s a story that’s also shared by every participant in the enterprise, there are some real questions about ownership here: if the enterprise is a story, who really owns the enterprise?
Just what that means in practice for the enterprise, and the risks and opportunities that it implies, seems a theme that’s worth exploring – not just for enterprise-architects, but for almost everyone else as well. So whatever your interest, although this is going to be another long post, you may find it more relevant than some of my other recent articles. Click on the ‘Read more…’ link to keep going, anyway.
A week in Tweets: 17-23 Jan 2010
January 24th, 2010
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The current week’s-worth of assorted Tweets and links, in the usual categories, and with the usual ‘Read more…’ link to open ‘em up.