Tom Graves / Tetradian » social media http://weblog.tomgraves.org Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A week in Tweets: 18-24 July 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/25/tweetweek-18jul/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/25/tweetweek-18jul/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:20:22 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=1209 Another week gone by, hence another collection of Tweets and links, as usual. (There were also a whole stream of possibly-useful Tweets from the Open Group enterprise-architecture conference in Boston during the week – see here and here.) Usual categories, with extras as appropriate, as usual.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and related matters:

  • SAlhir: RT @ellenfweber: 25 Signs an Organizational Model is Broken http://twurl.nl/mdnygs
  • AG_Mag: RT @eacorg: bus. capability maps not only bridge the gap between business & IT in #entarch projects, also improve bus 2 bus. communication <yup: it’s the first item we develop in an #entarch assignment
  • basvg: useful image for #entarch : http://tinyurl.com/2vjfxkb <another set of ‘five forces’ for #bizarch #bmgen
  • eatraining: Is EA Effectiveness At The Mercy Of Process Standardization? http://bit.ly/9MC2oI <?? correlation does not equal causation..
  • business_design: A ‘business’ book I recommend as summer reading RT @davegray: Gamestorming, hot off the press! http://post.ly/ntMR
  • eatraining: Joe McKendrick: Enterprise Architects as Quantum Mechanics http://bit.ly/dsJ7Ni #entarch
  • kvistgaard: RT @ariscommunity: BPMN 2 examples for original 20 workflow patterns http://bit.ly/ddcsQV #bpmn2 <- nice and clear. And down-loadable ;) #processarch
  • SAlhir: The Essential Vs & Ps: Values & Vision and Passion & Purpose <strongly agree – feels good to see someone else say it! :-)
  • kvistgaard: RT @ariscommunity: Interesting post by @adrianrcampbell on combining VPEC-T and ArchiMate http://bit.ly/ch0MJo
  • kvistgaard: SOA would b more successful if applied as #entarch approach, not just app integr. etc but on infrastr. & business (non IT part of it incl.) // ..In theory it should (TOGAF Archimate DoDAF) but in practice EA & SOA guys go diff. directions although we use more HW & Biz s. than SW s.
  • toddbiske: @Kvistgaard only if the #entarch program is already successful. Putting SOA under a maturing #entarch program doesn’t guarantee success.
  • SAlhir: RT @umairh The central idea in strategy is sustainable competitive advantage. Many get the “competitive”. Few remember the “sustainable”. #bizarch
  • DavidGurteen: Towards a co-evolutionary praxis of value http://bit.ly/cwdUjO #KM <’important new piece’ by Dave Snowden (but I must admit I’m having some difficulty with it, because part of his categorisation method seems identical to that which he so virulently attacked in my own supposedly ‘illegitimate approach’ to Cynefin…)
  • davidsprott: blogging on Cyberwarfare – a real threat or an over reaction? http://tinyurl.com/325axyt <recommend – an insightful if somewhat worrying piece
  • taotwit: @Cybersal  a Role/Actor is just a manifestation of a Value System which makes it  superordinate  & it is formalized in Policy : so VP covers <useful detail on translating standard Use Case models etc into VPEC-T terms
  • SAlhir: Culture eats Strategy — and Systems — for Breakfast … Systems trump Mission Statements; Culture trumps Systems http://bit.ly/dadZvK <points to article from Jan 2010, referencing Drucker quote “culture east strategy for breakfast”
  • taotwit: @Cybersal  @seabird20 the roots of my thoughts on Value Systems/Roles, Pirsig and EA summed up by Sam Lowe http://bit.ly/aOpCwT <insightful article (2007) on #vpect #entarch etc
  • tebbo: RT @rennew: Is #CSR bad for profitability? Fast Company says No: it’s the solution for profitability http://bit.ly/atGs2D #bizarch
  • nickmalik: Can your EA metamodel support the modeling of a Benefits Dependency Network?  If not, you may want to consider making the change. #entarch
  • SAlhir: RT @pauljansen You cannot see architecture. What you actually see is only that which contains it, and through that reveals it. #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @JuneHolley – Lectures on self-organization – http://bit.ly/aXCzac – great source of videos on self-organizing <videos by key thought-leaders such as Lynn Margulis, Marvin Minsky, James Lovelock, Robert Axelrod, Ilya Prigogine…
  • toddbiske: New blog post: A Lesson in Service Management http://www.biske.com/blog/?p=786 <very good points – recommend #entarch #svcmgmt
  • kvistgaard: Problems sometimes are very cozy to live in. Like old shoes. The comfort in complaining is much nicer compared to breaking into new ones.
  • BillIves: Useful Guidelines and Metrics for Speeding Up Your Organization from @theforumcorp http://bit.ly/cuSjhp
  • CreatvEmergence: Newness occurs not in the plan/control/manage machine, but in the deep well of the untamed, ever-generating creative unknown
  • CreatvEmergence: Old org: control life out of the system. New org: structure life within the system…& it generates more life
  • rlimbanda: RT @chrisfinlay: Designing Systems at Scale – IDEO http://bit.ly/9Pr26E RT @IATV <v.strong recommend #entarch
  • DavidGurteen: Johnnie Moore: The danger of safety http://bit.ly/9fIPsq #KM #entarch #bizarch
  • thoughttrans: RT @sniukas Innovation doesn’t have to be expensive http://ow.ly/2eZKb <brilliant examples!
  • bartleeten: Enterprise architecture goes agile? http://bit.ly/9UadLg <summary of #ogbos presos by Jeanne Ross, @bmichelson, Len Fehskens
  • oscarberg: RT @rhappe: RT @elsua: [Blog] Forget Social Strategy, Think Social Philosophy: Hippie 2.0 > http://bit.ly/8XXeOp [nice...] <note that is from the very real, very thoughtful (and very funny) IBMer Luis Suarez #e20 #entarch
  • taotwit: @Cybersal  Tweets with @seabird20 on VNA >> #vpect maps nicely http://bit.ly/9pfMuN >> WRT our chat with your VNA contact a while ago <VNA=Value Net Analysis [PDF]
  • kvistgaard: The best source for KPIs for your customer perspective (Balanced #scorecard) is the purchasing KPI’s of your customers, Watson. #kpi <good point… #entarch #bizarch
  • basvg: Fiddling with TIBCO Business Studio. Impressive tool by the looks of it // created proces simulation with a few clicks in the tibco suite. Impressive http://twitpic.com/27tvv8 <useful-looking tool for #processarch #itarch
  • AussiMike: Avoiding Business Architecture Paralysis http://ff.im/-o8JWY <practical advice from @nickmalik #bizarch #entarch
  • SAlhir: RT @goonth Timely —> The Evolution of Commitment http://bit.ly/aG7sVV /via @db <marketing – drivers to create/support a shift from free to paid, esp. on web
  • CreatvEmergence: Fractal Adaptive Cycles in Natural and Human Systems – http://ow.ly/2fpLJ – via @VenessaMiemis <useful reference-piece, with crossrefs to financial markets
  • thoughttrans: RT @pauljansen @KnowledgeBishop:The business that finds value IN its customers will outlast the 1 that extracts value FROM them.<4 IT 2 biz <symbiotic vs parasitic
  • business_design: RT @sgblank: latest SlideShare upload: Business plans vs Business models http://slidesha.re/cztfFE
  • SAlhir: Kanban described as a “softer” Scrum; and #Scrum described as a “more rigid” #Kanban; and #Agile described as more generic. <implementation of #entarch #bizarch etc
  • CreatvEmergence: CNN: Why using improvisation to teach business skills is no joke – http://bit.ly/d0mlhe #cnn <support for real-time response – includes practical ‘5 rules’ summary
  • adrianrcampbell: SOCITM KPI’s  at  http://tinyurl.com/367gt6f also good for #entarch
  • mikejwalker: IEEE 1471 adopted as ISO/IEC 42010:2007 http://bit.ly/dbcLCw <reference to a classic standard for #itarch, #entarch and other architectures in general

An item that lead to one of my more embarrassing blunders, that I ought to record for posterity…:

  • adrianrcampbell: Useful for #entarch and #bizarch – IBM’s Business Component Models  http://tinyurl.com/3767ana
  • tetradian: [post] ‘On IBM’s Component Business Model’ http://bit.ly/bU6tGY #entarch #bizarch
  • miket0181: @tetradian IBM’s CBM isn’t new. I think it’s at least 5 years old…
  • tetradian: @miket0181 re IBM’s CBM – in which case I apologise: I was sent a tweet the other day which purported it was new – no dates on their site
  • operninha: @tetradian aqui na empresa contratamos a IBM e eles usaram o CBM
  • seabird20: @tetradian I have seen CBM in RFPs for at least 5 years. Original work 10+ yrs. ago. Takes a while to get to rank and file though
  • richardveryard: @miket0181 @tetradian … IBM’s CBM came sometime after my 2001 book on Component-Based Business http://tinyurl.com/23gelj7
  • gotze: @tetradian Also note that IBM holds several patents on CBM. <how?? it’s just a model, isn’t it??
  • tetradian: [post] ‘How to screw up in one easy lesson…’ http://bit.ly/b46soY (a ‘mea culpa’ on my CBM post) #entarch #bizarch
  • thefullkernick: @tetradian ‘How to screw up in one easy lesson…’ http://bit.ly/b46soY < nice to know you’re human too ;-) nice post.

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management, creativity and in-person collaboration:

  • hebsgaard: How to incentivise knowledge sharing? http://tinyurl.com/328vvwn #km <Nick Milton says don’t, because it does more harm than good – build it into everyday work instead #entarch
  • unorder: RT @gtdguy: Want to learn some fascinating stuff re: motivation & learning? http://bit.ly/bEsfZ4 <more confirmation of the general themes in Daniel Pink’s ‘Drive’: seems people (students, anyway) are motivated by ‘Will I?’ or ‘Can I?’ than ‘I will!’ or ‘I can!’
  • unorder: Panel sessions in conferences blow. Becomes theatre set pieces. What about panel member (PM) speed dating. Each PM at a table, 5 min, swap. <very neat idea – worth exploring…
  • SAlhir: RT @umairh: Most orgs (&people) fail 2 learn from experience. Not because they don’t want 2 learn – but because they don’t fully experience. <good point…
  • oscarberg: RT @VenessaMiemis: 10 signs you work in a fear-based workplace [msnbc] http://bit.ly/9Ih3gU <ouch.. see also my SEMPER diagnostic at http://bit.ly/as1fBb
  • SAlhir: RT @prwpmp Food for thought! – RT @timkastelle – New blog post: Can #Innovation Management be a Profession? http://bit.ly/al50Nz <note its six-point definition of a profession
  • SAlhir: RT @Billy_Cox Effective people are not problemminded; theyre opportunityminded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. Stephen Covey <useful reminder to a natural-born ‘worrier’ like me…
  • unorder: How superstition improves performance http://j.mp/cfmlMW Those lucky charms are lucky <v.interesting: Skeptics won’t like this!
  • SAlhir: RT @umairh: very interesting post about collaboration with very cool ‘mixing-desk’ metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://is.gd/dA0Xu <also #entarch?
  • CreatvEmergence: How we engage the dance between structure & flow becomes our unique creative signature
  • DavidGurteen: Sacrificing sense-making for senselessness. http://bit.ly/97tQOx #KM <um… all good points, but given my history with the author, I will have to say a very careful ‘no comment’…
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @Brainzooming – 26 Ways to Break a CreativeBlock – http://bit.ly/aS66Yk <mostly well-known tactics, but a useful list anyway
  • CreatvEmergence: Ideation Techniques on @smartstorming’s blog – http://bit.ly/bi8tpY <”ideation techniques. we like them. we just don’t know them” – illustrates just how limited most people’s ideation-toolkits are, and how to extend that range of options
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @richbugger The art of Design/Creative thinking, ways to foster Innovation | Richworks http://bit.ly/bXEjRl <comprehensive how-to introduction
  • CreatvEmergence: 101 Patterns for Influencing Behavior Through Design – w/downloadable cards – http://bit.ly/c4XRDU via @brainpicker <v.strong recommend
  • SAlhir: Understand people, and you understand everything. < Absolutely Brilliant! (per @jorgebarba by @thebrandbuilder) http://icio.us/on22pi <a long post, but well worth reading several times over…
  • kcoreresearch: First Look: Knowledge for the Public Good (Societal Knowledge Management) http://wp.me/pUfyy-1p <interesting research #km

Social-media, ‘enterprise 2.0’ and online collaboration:

  • SAlhir: RT @Agotthelf morning read: Social Hearing Versus Social Listening, There is a Difference – by @mjayliebs http://tinyurl.com/2v5os2m #scrm #e20
  • oscarberg: “Social” Thinking vs. Doing http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=11222 by @JDeragon
  • SAlhir: RT @venessamiemis: Will future of social networking be open & distributed? Here comes @mpesce’s Plexus http://bit.ly/9QzDBh via @rossdawson
  • oscarberg: RT @bduhon: #ROI? #e20? It just doesn’t matter. by @jmancini77 http://ow.ly/2feO3 #AIIM #ECM
  • joyce_hostyn: Lizard brain. Fear impacts adoption of many things #BPM adoption: Welcome to Planet Fear http://j.mp/cZ4bSG via @process2go @ScarletCoral
  • joyce_hostyn: designing effective search & discovery experiences: new Endeca UI pattern library > very cool +1 http://bit.ly/aPCMjN via @dmitryn @uxnu
  • joyce_hostyn: Love this presentation on design! Hits on problem of linear processes. Needs organic, multidimensional, uncertainties http://bit.ly/aFvWlJ
  • joyce_hostyn: Designing for accessibility? Personas for cognitive, vision, hearing, communication, upper limb impairments http://bit.ly/bChfkw by @aegisproj <detailed persona-definitions for #ux / #ui projects

A particular theme about complexity as regards social-learning:

  • SAlhir: self-organising system with learning as an emergent behaviour (via @socialsyntax) http://bit.ly/bX0p2u <must-read! #km #entarch – beautiful story about slum-children and self-guided learning
  • rotkapchen: .@tetradian @SAlhir @socialsyntax Most significant “It doesn’t work if you give them each a computer individually,” #LearningIsSocial
  • tetradian: @rotkapchen @SAlhir @socialsyntax exactly – ‘One Laptop Per Child’ etc may actually *damage* the social-learning process

IT-architecture, IT-systems and similar matters:

  • AussiMike: OpenStack: game changing open source cloud platform http://ff.im/-nWea1 #itarch
  • bartleeten: RT @brianblanchard: Touchable Holograms come to life http://bit.ly/bCYeFy << cool item of the day #japan #tech
  • Cybersal: RT @roygrubb ..distrust present cloud svcs…but this thoughtful piece by @laurenweinstein is worth yr consideration. http://bit.ly/9Lo4cH
  • rtolido: 8 ways to measure cloud ROI, remarkably successful Open Group work http://bit.ly/aDAGBy <good, but IMO still seriously-inadequate acknowledgement of kurtosis-risk (‘long-tail’ risk) issues
  • rtolido: Top tip for application rationalization: when selling to management, minimize your design / architecture and maximize your business case <yup: ‘obvious’ but all-too-often forgotten #entarch #itarch
  • jdevoo: Cameras as open platforms http://bit.ly/b3t3rE #photo <the ‘Frankencamera’ open-source camera/imaging software stack

Society, culture and corporate social responsibility:

  • unorder: If you want your teenagers to live with you well into their 20s, buy them a double bed.
  • SAlhir: RT @Billy_Cox There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Alice Thomas Ellis <from which we gather that men are the only ones who are unloved? kinda thought that might be the case… :-(
  • SAlhir: RT @jorgebarba How Will You Measure Your Life? (HBR) #psychology #happiness http://icio.us/gghivl
  • ChristineArena: Two great posts today on markets + morals, one from @nytimes: http://3bl.me/vvs3yf other from @maxineudall: http://3bl.me/vcz548
  • davidcushman: Watching a young person writing things in a Filofax. With a pen. I could be in an episode of #ashestoashes <but why should technology be mandatory? – nothing matches the physicality and immediacy of real pen and real paper :-)
  • SAlhir: Closing Triangles in http://is.gd/dA1TX by @nurturegirl & Triading in http://is.gd/dpFJL #tlcc #culture #creatingcommunity
  • tetradian: FastDesign: Infographic of the day: Hidden side of the ‘War on Terror’ http://bit.ly/byGoAB <definitely scary…
  • SAlhir: Culture is the sum of those things that adorn human nature in a given context. // Transformation is not about Change (as in I change You or We change It). // Transformation is not about Liberation (as in I liberate You from those things in your context, from the culture tweet, or We liberate Them) // Transformation is the shaping of context so that you liberate yourself and your nature emerges from the cultural adornments. // If I have 2 motivate You or You have 2 motivate Me, it’s the wrong We. We don’t need 2 motivate 1 another, we need 2 engage 1 another.
  • jdevoo: Nuclear fission: wastes must be isolated for 50 x all of recorded history and some are bound to leak http://tiny.cc/bddr8 via @johnthackara <part of what looks like a very well-thought-through series of articles for ‘green wizards’ (active ecology)
  • Cybersal: Don’t think I’ll be using Foursquare any time soon, especially after reading this article in today’s Guardian http://bit.ly/90oFF6 <the joys of unintended consequences… this time in geolocation-services
  • Eclectopedic: Re Banker bonuses: We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. – F.D. Roosevelt <what now for the Goddess of self-interest, Ayn Rand?
  • bartleeten: Another great TED presentation, on the mating of ideas: http://on.ted.com/8TOK <…with copyright and patent as the self-obsessed Puritans who prevent such mating taking place…

And, without doubt, the mellifluous miscellany:

  • SAlhir: Great translation of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” http://www.victoryoverwar.com
  • craighepburn: Loving this innovative design for a kinetic phone http://bit.ly/a3ZM5O <design-student exercise – a phone that literally ‘wakes up’ when a call comes in – very neat!
  • SAlhir: RT @Billy_Cox Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence. Charles K. Kettering <one of those rare Tweet-quotes that’s definitely worth repeating…
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @presentationzen: Be like the bamboo: 7 lessons from the Japanese forest http://snipurl.com/zrhx6 (new PZ post) <nice: about presentation and resilience
  • davidcushman: RT @xaviervallee: I knew teleportation was possible but now time travel is thanks to MIT. http://bit.ly/9UkTOr and http://bit.ly/90kbwq <links are to Telegraph article and original physics paper – still requires full experimental proof, but legitimate in physics theory. nice. :-)
  • kvistgaard: Yann Tiersen “Tabarly” #nowplaying And here is a nice track from another album of YT http://youtu.be/4Z2ljWwIaHs <”Piano” – beautiful… one of my most-favourite-ever tracks linked to a poignant animation-short
]]> http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/25/tweetweek-18jul/feed/ 0 A week in Tweets: 11-17 July 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/19/tweetweek-11jul/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/19/tweetweek-11jul/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:27:02 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=1176 Finally catching up again: last week’s collection of Tweets and links. Usual categories unless otherwise noted.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and similar stuff:

  • unorder: “organizational innovation and change processes cannot be outsourced” Scharmer and Kaeufer, Journal of Business Strategy <v.important for #entarch #bizarch!
  • DavidGurteen: Origins of Cynefin (part 5) http://bit.ly/aumqOK #KM <to quote Snowden himself, “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry”… oh well!
  • tetradian: [post] ‘Context-space mapping – a bit of history’ http://bit.ly/czPiEz #entarch #csm <in part a response to Snowden’s absurd ‘anonymous’ attack on my work in his ‘History of Cynefin Part 5′
  • unorder: The world is not flat, it’s spiky and will continue to get spikier. http://bit.ly/aSbJMD <useful review by John Hagel of a new book by Richard Florida on changing demographic-geographies and current changes in capitalism and economics
  • SAlhir: RT @jorgebarba: The #Innovation Hype Cycle http://icio.us/gvxhym <v.interesting phase-space re-map of hype-cycle #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Collective Intelligence as Field of Multi-disciplinary Study & Practice – http://bit.ly/cqUDmX – by @tehnoshaman & @tomatlee
  • SAlhir: The Quintessential Tribal-Leadership Triad: Tribe, Tribal-Leader, and Tribal-Strategy http://bit.ly/9JpYKY #tlcc <aka ‘Tribal Leadership in a Nutshell’ – four short videos [narrated presentations] on the ‘tribal leadership’ concept
  • chrisdpotts: RT @YvesHanoulle: RT @Nalden: People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. – George Bernard Shaw <to me, applies especially to whole-of-enterprise architecture… :wrygrin:
  • SAlhir: great leaders…have a clarity and purpose of vision. RT @mikemyatt: Vision and Leadership http://bit.ly/bGOMTK
  • ChristineArena: RT @davidcoethica: Return on Integrity Is the New Bottom Line for Marketers http://3bl.me/txwbx3 #csr #brands #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Gr8 creative/living org slideshow > The Biology of Business http://bit.ly/dAKbRZ via @spirospiliadis @mjayliebs @prem_k
  • CreatvEmergence: preso by @changeorder: ‘Work in Progress: Thoughts on Design Leadership’ http://slidesha.re/bZ9na5 <excellent! #entarch
  • thoughttrans: Scarlet’s caretaker was interviewed for her latest ebook Parrotology http://tinyurl.com/2byd6mb #bizarch #entarch
  • SAlhir: RT @venessamiemis: What are the Emerging Values & Business Models of the 21st Century Human/Organization? http://bit.ly/brsXTC
  • SAlhir: Complexity in context or content is not simplified by a complex process. <or an overly-complicated process, either #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: How to Use Game Mechanics to Power Your Business – http://bit.ly/aw8aEL – via @jhagel #bizarch
  • BillIves: Book-review: Clay Shirky and Cognitive Surplus by @jmcgee http://bit.ly/cg6Hkf
  • toddbiske: RT @brhubart Bob Covington:  #entarch should bridge silos, not create them.<< Only if those silos should be bridged based on operating model <agree – the reasons for bridging need to be clear and known
  • toddbiske: Question for EA tweeps… Do we need more biz arch and less tech arch, or do we need more biz arch along with current tech arch? #eastop // My opinion: More of what is architecturally significant lies with biz decomposition than technology decomp, but some tech arch still needed. <my answer: more real #bizarch (i.e. not merely ‘anything not-IT that might affect IT’) and better rather than less #itarch – i.e. do proper #entarch, not itarch-pretending-it’s-the-whole-enterprise
  • thoughttrans: #EAstop stop limiting your solution to IT solutions <yes, yes, yes!! #entarch #bizarch #itarch etc etc
  • SAlhir: Don’t merely embrace change/simplicity/complexity; embrace uncertainty as much as certainty;these are the fountains of opportunity and risk.
  • jdevoo: Repository of papers on trust & reputation systems http://bit.ly/9yQmz0 via @VenessaMiemis @rachelbotsman #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • nickmalik: ‘Can Enterprise Architecture be effective if we ignore the needs of the customer?’ http://bit.ly/9JiQ9Z #entarch <recommend (original Tweet was: “To model business strategy well, #entarch must model the needs of the customer. Hence Zachman is not good EA.”)
  • joyce_hostyn: simplicity tipping point? RT @cmswire In a complex world, innovation can be all about simplifying and removing http://bit.ly/b8f0ns #ux #entarch #bizarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Nice description of Spiral Dynamics – jonesthought blog – http://bit.ly/axJdOF via @DavidHolzmer <useful summary, including criticism (e.g. potential for misuse for elitism), references to original sources etc
  • DavidGurteen: Video: The cynefin framework http://bit.ly/aKJdoD #KM <for reasons that should obvious to anyone who’s read my weblog, I just can’t watch it.. :-( but it’s apparently very good: anyone have a transcript, perhaps?
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @frankspencer: The futures of Futures Studies: http://bit.ly/aHQGa5 <by Sohail Inayatullah, one of the leading figures in futures thinking – is unfortunately behind a paywall, but abstract is as follows: “Futures studies is likely to evolve through changes in five areas. They are: (1) forecasting to anticipatory action learning; (2) reductionist to complex; (3) horizontal to vertical; (4) from short-term empiricist research to the return of long-term history, including grand narratives; and (5) scenario development to moral futures.”
  • theopengroup: RT @brhubart: Pat Shepherd: Some of the Things EA’s Can Focus On. http://bit.ly/c1ZFND <a useful people-oriented checklist for #entarch etc, from Oracle
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @HarvardBiz – The Miracle of Making Mistakes – http://s.hbr.org/9pcmz1 <another great HBR opinion-piece: we need to structure ’safe-space-for-mistakes’ into our institutions, to support learning and skills-development
  • SAlhir: Why retrospect? Because our habits can be are undoing. // Why introspect? Because my habits can be my undoing.
  • EnterprisingA: Thought for today: Good architecture is common sense. Bad architecture is complete nonsense. No architecture is somewhere in between.
  • oscarberg: RT @weknowmore: Five Ways Pixar Makes Better Decisions http://ow.ly/189bj7 <see also @rotkapchen post at http://bit.ly/aKonUT
  • hebsgaard: Revisiting Toyota, Ethics and #Compliance http://bit.ly/bazooY <hmm… turns out that the real failures and ethics problems in this probably weren’t Toyota’s at all…
  • jdevoo: RT @shopatron_mark: blog: The future of mCommerce… is here. http://bit.ly/axiALb >> it’s the service stupid! #bizarch #itarch #ux
  • getstoried: RT @monstro: “monofuturism: the mistaken assumption that because only one future will happen, that only one future can happen.” <ouch… very true, see it far too often…
  • toddbiske: Blog post: Want Successful Enterprise Architecture? Define “Enterprise” First. http://www.biske.com/blog/?p=785 <recommend #entarch
  • business_design: imagine playing with the numbers of your business model in an #iPad app http://post.ly/nPkR
  • theopengroup: Early notice: Mark your calendar for Nov/Dec.  Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Stockholm 2010 http://ow.ly/2aKij #togaf #ea
  • DavidGurteen: ‘A hierarchy of failure worth following’ http://bit.ly/cVxBUs <another insightful piece from Seth Godin
  • CreatvEmergence: Creative Culture: From Finite to Infinite Games (blog post) http://bit.ly/a8B8Us // “To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.” ~ James Carse <huge implications in #entarch #csr etc
  • CreatvEmergence: The Power of Colors: How Colors Are Used in (e-)Commerce to Influence You – http://daddu.net/the-power-of-colors
  • oscarberg: “Success hides problems…you don’t need to address problems” Ed Catmull, Pixar http://twurl.nl/4n2jrg
  • JohnPolgreen: RT @mcgoverntheory The only people who belong in ivory towers are captured princesses and even that wasn’t their choice. #entarch #TOGAF
  • kvistgaard: Most consultancy is means-driven, not goal-driven. It’s when-the-only-tool-u-have-is-a-hammer-then-all-the-world-tends-to-look-like-a-nail approach
  • aojensen: Meta-modelling is not only pure deliberation. It is an organisational soliloquy from which chunks of past wisdom are derived and retained.
  • oscarberg: RT @nikhilnulkar: Communication as Work by @vzrjvy http://bit.ly/dj3qyx @dachisgroup > +1 #e20 #entarch
  • SAlhir: RT @cdgrams: RT @davidburney: The first strategic question: http://tinyurl.com/2w4rcto #mission #purpose #strategicplanning #entarch
  • SAlhir: Is #purpose really an effective motivator? by @DanielPink http://is.gd/dvVyj <quick answer is ‘yes’ – includes experimental proof
  • SAlhir: The Purpose Linked Organization http://is.gd/dvX4r and http://is.gd/dvX3Z by @workwithpassion #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • kvistgaard: People need to believe that there is value in what they do. But just sharing what they do does not add value to it. <true…
  • tetradian: [post] ‘Context-space mapping with the Enterprise Canvas’ (tutorial, part 1) http://bit.ly/bk3HAh #entarch #bizarch
  • SAlhir: RT @Leadershipwatch: Are you creating or reacting to change? Bus #transformation ongoing process http://bit.ly/cCrNod #leadership #leadchange

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management, creativity and in-person collaboration:

  • unorder: How to get your story heard at work. http://bit.ly/9hMYvS [new Anecdote post] <”don’t use the ’s’-word…”
  • oscarberg: “Serendipity doesn’t just happen in a serendipitous way. You have to work for it” – Yossi Vardi <yes: “prepared for surprise” etc
  • CreatvEmergence: 33 strategies & concepts for personal & organizational creativity http://bit.ly/bmAfRC via @wanderingalan <#entarch etc – useful and practical detail
  • CreatvEmergence: Creativity comes to life at intersections of known & unknown, logic & intuition, right & left brain, movement & stillness
  • CreatvEmergence: Creativity by its nature transforms. If you want real creativity in your org, be prepared for the discomfort of real change.
  • CreatvEmergence: Presence–full-on, undistracted, spacious, unformulaic, be-here-now–exponentially expands creativity’s playing field
  • SAlhir: RT @mcottmeyer: Interesting Post…  Kanban, Mental Models, and Double Loop Learning http://dlvr.it/2dpHb
  • jdevoo: Ketso: a resource for facilitators http://bit.ly/aCm1yy <a nice physical #mindmap tool for collaborative idea-sessions etc

Social-media, ‘enterprise 2.0’ and on-line collaboration:

  • jdevoo: Free yourself from technology & channel in #transmedia design – a macro framework by @goonth http://j.mp/alKWUD via @openworld <another one that’ll repay careful reading and re-reading…
  • oscarberg: Serendipity & pull in action: discovered this great post ‘The Long Tail Of Enterprise Content Management’ http://contentperspective.se/?p=506 after publishing this ‘Serving the long tail of information needs with social intranets’ http://goo.gl/fb/eXfSb
  • joyce_hostyn: Some really smart thinking on content strategy & its real value http://bit.ly/aTxkGc (via @UXbooth @thejordanrules) <yes! – now apply the same thinking to #entarch etc
  • jdevoo: RT @VenessaMiemis: UI Designs That May Replace Touch Screens http://ow.ly/2bA7P >> revisit the list thinking of group instead of solo use
  • getstoried: Concept and persona mapping as evolutionary strategy  – http://bit.ly/d5jUqZ #storytelling #visualporn <will admit I’m having difficulty making sense of this – it’s even more abstract than my usual stuff :-| – but it’s linked to the #junto crew, so it’ll relevant in the longer term
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @Harvardbiz – 10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life: http://bit.ly/brLG3J <is also about the importance of being authentic online
  • oscarberg: Blogged: Information is like water http://bit.ly/9LEKRC #aiim #e20 #information #e20
  • BillIves: a ‘Social Employee Manifesto’ from @joemckendrick  http://bit.ly/91dL6h #e20 #entarch #bizarch

IT-architecture, IT-systems development and other IT-related matters:

  • kvistgaard: RT @gaz4695: [ProcessCafe] The Tao of On-line Processes (or how Amazon have got it right) http://bit.ly/d8veUV << offline p. in online skin <very good points on the design and implementation of online processes #entarch #bizarch #itarch
  • jdevoo: The Scratch-style block programming moves beyond education: App Inventor for Android http://bit.ly/93loY6 (via @valdiskrebs) <Android-based toolsets for #entarch etc., anyone?
  • theopengroup: 8 Ways to Measure Cloud ROI – Business Technology Leadership http://ow.ly/28cAP #itarch
  • simonbrown: If you have a blank sheet of paper and some requirements, how do you start designing software? http://bit.ly/dsUOps (video) #itarch
  • simonbrown: It’s often missed, but more architectural layers means more things to think about … http://bit.ly/cRiwBL <example is in #itarch, but applies to all other aspects of architecture too
  • ironick: I favorited a YouTube video — Welcome to Metaweb http://youtu.be/TJfrNo3Z-DU?a <interesting #itarch / #webarch concept (made even more interesting because MetaWeb has just been acquired by Google)

Society, culture, corporate social responsibility and suchlike:

  • alphalo: My essay on how to apply open collaboration ideas to social justice issues at http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com
  • ChristineArena: RT @heif: citi owns “thankyou” http://flic.kr/p/8gKmPK <beyond crazy… the words ‘thank you’ as private property…???
  • SAlhir: Recognise the yearning for meaning RT @VenessaMiemis: are we undergoing a conceptual emergency? http://bit.ly/5FpHu3
  • jdevoo: RT @OurWorld20: ‘Transition Towns: Local Networking for Global Sustainability?’ a dissertation – http://bit.ly/aKXO1s
  • unorder: RT @davidrock101: New Scientist: Why you can’t fight violence with violence http://bit.ly/bkxGXv
  • jdevoo: I still find this AidPod idea by colalife fantastic: http://www.colalife.org/ <simple ideas are best.. #bizarch #csr #innovation
  • kvistgaard: Robbery increases by 2% per each 1% of unemployment rise according to a research by James Wilson.

And, as always, the mellifluent miscellany:

  • jdevoo: RT @timse7: The brain of the fly – a high-speed computer w/ unique take on image processing http://bit.ly/dhVnIQ >> attenuators at work
  • unorder: MeetingWords: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing http://icio.us/345hga via @johnt Just like Etherpad. I love this tool.
  • tebbo: If, like me, you’re working on a website for an iPad but you haven’t got one, this is handy: http://ipadpeek.com/ Thanks @elsua <very useful for testing how a website looks on an iPad (or equivalent)… hmm… thanks indeed
  • tebbo: Blog post on creating iPad-friendly interactive infographic on ‘How to handle the media’: http://bit.ly/9MEbdN // Thanks to @elsua, you can now hand craft your own interactive infographic. Here’s one way: http://bit.ly/aTGVzX
  • rlimbanda: “You’re the reason I believe in Creation” is a better pickup line than “You look like you evolved” :-)
  • rlimbanda: Despite cancer, wars and murders, death is still the world’s number 1 killer #dumbtweet <well, uh, yes… :-) (I do like that #dumbtweet hashtag!)
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @ideahive: RT @davidhodgson: BBC Science: plants can think and remember http://tinyurl.com/39zrnsm
  • tebbo: RSS overload? Sensible advice from @wordful on fine-tuning your feeds: http://wordful.com/the-real-secret-of-rss-reading/
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Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and business-stuff in general:

  • greblhad: The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Four – Tactical Dispositions: http://wp.me/p7ejN-88 <more Sun Tzu for #entarch !
  • greblhad: The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Five – Directing Energy: http://wp.me/p7ejN-8b <more Sun Tzu for #entarch!
  • BillIves: RT @SmartDataCo: Actionable Information Management Principles: People http://goo.gl/fb/jpw4I #cloud > nice look forward to more <useful worked-example of architecture-principles – for information-management, in this case
  • CreatvEmergence: 3-fold opening of education – http://bit.ly/aZZJYJ – via @juneholley <open content, open instruction, open assessment – same principles apply to opening up businesses and business-models, too
  • CreatvEmergence: “Emergineering” – http://twurl.nl/4mt0gu (via @technoshaman @CoCreatr @analpoet @rotkapchen) #e20 #entarch
  • adrianrcampbell: from Gene Bellinger – New Tools for Resolving Wicked Problems: Mess mapping and Resolution Mapping Processes at http://bit.ly/bKaVW7 // EAs = Mess Mapping? <article is 34pg PDF [2007]: attempted-proprietary version of standard futures scenario-mapping, useful for those who don’t know futures-work, nothing new for those who do – and yes, much of EA is ‘mess-mapping’
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 3: Owners and Managers’ http://bit.ly/agEN5v #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 4: Layers’ http://bit.ly/b8DP9P #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 5: Recursion, Flows and Systems’ http://bit.ly/c5Ve6E #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 6: Models’ http://bit.ly/dlu9tD #entarch #bizarch (two more articles still to come in this series! :-) )
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 7: Patterns’ http://bit.ly/dkQ5EQ #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 8: Integration’ http://bit.ly/amffPo #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas: Summary and Index’ http://bit.ly/94squk #entarch #bizarch  (that’s all for now, folks… :-) )
  • craighepburn: App Store, Hacked. http://bit.ly/dhKGSq <yikes… *very* important breaking-story for any iTunes/AppStore user… also note implications for #entarch #bizarch #secarch #itarch #csr etc
  • greblhad: When tailoring #TOGAF don’t ask what you want in your #entarch framework instead ask what you can do without. <yep… agree…
  • DavidGurteen: Are you innovative or are you awesome? http://bit.ly/dsudtG <another great Umair Haque post on HBR #entarch #bizarch
  • chrisdpotts: Great article in the latest issue of Strategy: “Playscript Your Strategy” http://bit.ly/bzuqq9 #CIO #entarch #storytelling <strong recommend for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • unorder: 5 questions to test if your org has strategic clarity http://bit.ly/azRxRU (those who dig will get preview of our beta website) <useful follow-on/crosslink to the BMGen book #bizarch
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @rokapchen: Permaculture to Design Thinking to Participatory Design via @jascharohr http://bit.ly/cYZJYk <Insightful.. feels important, don’t quite know why… #entarch and beyond…
  • CreatvEmergence: Emergence unfolds in layers…as you cultivate and co-create with one layer, it reveals the next…
  • rettema: Designed a workshop for strategic decision making in the realization agenda of a SOA service portfolio in relation to the #BMGEN <sounds very interesting – true whole-of-enterprise SOA
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @hjarche: FC: Why HR? http://is.gd/dgjYv need to change whole org DNA, not just HR http://is.gd/dgjVU <interesting perspective as usual from Harold Jarche – well worth a read #entarch #bizarch
  • SAlhir: RT @designthinkers @wimrampen @mycustomer Part 2of3 on The future of marketing – understanding value co-creation http://bit.ly/9KeX3R <also applies to #bizarch and role of marketing etc in overall #entarch
  • SAlhir: Operating in Chaos does not relax the need for being Methodical and Disciplined/Regimented. <disciplined within chaos, yes – not sure about either ‘Methodical’ (‘cos there’s nothing there to hang a method off) or ‘Regimented’ (‘cos there’s no structure to regiment)
  • unorder: Clear description of the Cynefin framework as a tool to augment understanding rather than for categorising http://bit.ly/bci2OG <another really useful post by Cynefin’s co-creator Cynthia Kurtz
  • CreatvEmergence: Emergence is a dance of structure and flow, diverge and converge, expand and contract….
  • JohnPolgreen: RT @ malcolmlowe frustrating when ppl talk about biz and IT. IT is part of a biz. We should say non-IT and IT parts of the biz. << v true…
  • bergmart: Looking for EA-trends in manufacturing industry. Any references or thoughts?
  • blomr: @bergmart Some of our clients work with ISA95 reference model. Helps you to architect integration ERP and machines in the plant/factory.
  • thoughttrans: RT @sniukas Reinventing Your Business Method Cards http://ow.ly/1qAKnM #entarch #bizarch <<like this <v.useful #bizarch
  • SAlhir: “venture inward 2discover their purpose & venture outward 2make a diffrnce in the world” http://bit.ly/9jBTmF via @rotkapchen @chrisflanagan <article in Richard Leider includes important re-iteration of the importance of vision in and to orgs #entarch #bizarch
  • RT @getstoried: #storytelling e.g. – The Empathy Telescope, Great blog post by @SamHorn_dot_com – http://bit.ly/9KEwRq <apply in #entarch? – “we can connect with the one but we can’t connect with the many”
  • bartleeten: Enterprise Architecture Tools – Don’t Dig to China http://icio.us/yzgesz <some wise warnings about the dangers of modelling as-is too early
  • davidsprott: Blogging on outsourcing madness http://lnkd.in/Qm62AB <ouch… good example of what goes wrong and why #entarch #itarch
  • bergmart: Went through lots of architecture documents to figure out what really architecture is and what isn’t.  Why do architects write that much? #entarch <uh… sorry… ‘cos I do? :-)
  • josvanoosten: RT @kherrup: What Nassim Taleb told me about BP oil spill and black swans http://bit.ly/c7InA6 <important #entarch #bizarch
  • oscarberg: In the business world you plan, and then you execute. There is no “learning stage” (from “Switch” by D & C Heath) // “From the business perspective, practice looks like poor execution. Results are the thing” (from “Switch” by D & C Heath) // “Everything can look like a failure in the middle.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School
  • bartleeten: Data is not binary – http://j.mp/bP3WQn <why open data requires credibility and transparency – and how to implement that in practice
  • CreatvEmergence: Launch of Mesh Directory, companies w biz models built on sharing http://meshing.it RT @VenessaMiemis @DanielPink #bizarch (also #csr?)
  • CreatvEmergence: Org. culture is context from wh/new creativity in the org. can emerge. Evolve culture/conditions to evolve thinking. // In the quiet, fertile fullness of Emergent Space all things are imaginable… // …and therefore creatable // Where “realists” see walls & dead ends, creators see doors & passages
  • basvg: Cool new term: multi-niche strategy < #bizarch #entarch #bmgen #strategy
  • kvistgaard: There seems 2 b too many universal approaches that claim being unique when compared to other universal approaches, the whole v the wholer <nicely ironic… :-)
  • business_design: RT @bvanoosterhout: New disruptive business models could need separate organizations http://bit.ly/9zGoox #bizarch <useful review of when to split and to not split off a separate subsidiary to implement a disruptive business-model
  • eatraining: Jeff Scott: Six Attributes Every Business Architect Should Display http://bit.ly/dbxsjE <strong recommend #bizarch
  • iyigun: <post> Dealing with complexity and uncertainty – IBM CEO study  http://goo.gl/Qm4j #entarch #strategy
  • basvg: mandatory gear for architects #entarch http://tinyurl.com/32cyrgv <nicely ironic… and, again, painfully accurate… :-( :-)
  • CreatvEmergence: 21stC business drivers: creativity, passion, imagination, meaning, serving greater good, whole-brain/whole-systems thinking < #entarch #bizarch #csr etc
  • CreatvEmergence: Admission into the Land of Happy Accidents requires leaving the need 4 the certain, the sensible & the neat at the gate <extremely important in the preliminary/exploratory phases for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @VenessaMiemis – Innovation Insanity: 67 Trends http://bit.ly/21ZvNH <another great list from the Trendwatching crew
  • SAlhir: Asked about the “purposeless enterprise” after the purposeful enterprise. http://tinyurl.com/l3qaec Thoughts welcome? <yet another item I need to read in depth – see also many useful/relevant comments
  • SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis: Designing For Social Purpose http:/corporation2020.org via @CoCreatr @frankspencer @mgusek555 #entarch #csr

A brief discussion on solution-architectures in TOGAF:

  • kvistgaard: Both TOGAF & DoDAF support the concept of EA v Solution Arc. but insist that SA is not part of EA. Why should the higher level be exclusive?
  • tetradian: @kvistgaard SA #solnarch should be specific to a single context and need; EA #entarch should (in principle) bridge across all contexts // also EA not so much ‘exclusive’ as at different level of abstraction: see role of EA in TOGAF ph.A-D,H vs EA+SA in ph.E-G
  • blomr: Typical levels of EA-involvement in projects: 1)no arch 2)pre-project principle check 3)as 2 + design reviews 4)PSA + architect in project
  • kvistgaard: @tetradian Exactly,so it is a part of it or of a “sequencing plan” which should b part of EA. If EA is not holistic then what is EA part of?
  • tetradian: @kvistgaard main point is probly that they’re parallel activities by different people with different skillsets – eg. EAs don’t (much) code
  • kvistgaard: @tetradian Yeah, most of the ADM is fine on that. It’s just that when trying 2 combine TOGAF w/ DoDAF would help if EA is def. as allinclus
  • tetradian: @kvistgaard yup, that’s the problem w TOGAF: is not-inclusive, doesn’t work outside of ‘IT/business align’. Ask @JohnPolgreen re DoDAF/TOGAF

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management, creativity and in-person collaboration:

  • CreatvEmergence: 10 Elements of Accelerated Learning – IAL:  http://bit.ly/95w9En. Conf focus on theory/application/facilitation (I loved presenting there)
  • DavidGurteen: Steve Denning: Why Do Great KM Programs Fail? http://bit.ly/dlVPbA #KM <essential must-read for #entarch #bizarch too
  • thoughttrans: The key to providing creative value is to find out what the person you wish to connect with finds of value on a personal and emotional level
  • getstoried: an awesome #TEDify mashup on the power of #storytelling!  http://bit.ly/aE0TQ9 <dunno about ‘awesome’, bit nice, certainly – and useful to help explain what ’story’ is
  • JohnPolgreen: RT @tom_peters If listening doesn’t exhaust you-then you aren’t listening. << true for #entarch, #TOGAF. Stakeholder concerns are everything. <strongly agree
  • DavidGurteen: The Lessons Learned Handbook published http://bit.ly/92Iypu #KM <very useful-looking book from Nick Milton
  • joyce_hostyn: “starting with the right questions will steer you towards the right answers – by design” great preso on brainstorming http://bit.ly/awgwq1
  • ironick: very cool. willingness is more powerful than willfulness! the willpower paradox. http://bit.ly/aWknUy via @brainpicker
  • unorder: Just added some new stories to the Anecdote Story Finder http://www.anecdote.com.au/storyfinder.php #km
  • unorder: Knowledge repositories are knowledge coffins. It’s where knowledge goes to die. via @euan // Set off Trojan Mice instead of corporate initiatives. Lots of small things that could have a big impact. Via @euan
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @jhagel @spacecollective – presentation on social learning, sensemaking capacity & collective intelligence – http://bit.ly/9E7YYF
  • bonifer: RT @hellodelight: Wharton prof. explains why he often uses improv groups as supplementary presenters in his MBA courses: http://bit.ly/9vekaC <good uses of improv in business-context
  • smbounds: KM fails if you try to change things people don’t want changed http://bounds.net.au/node/53 >> @stevedenning http://tinyurl.com/236f4jb <insightful – some I don’t agree with, but definitely good points #km #entarch
  • Bonifer: The customer’s dual roles:  http://bit.ly/aEIgUe #gamechangers #bizarch #entarch <nice crosslink to improv and the ‘business anarchist’ theme: “the best salespeople are the best improvisers”
  • DavidGurteen: Ask, Learn, Share http://bit.ly/c5zPHJ #KM <practical advice from Shell
  • joyce_hostyn: prototype to influence -> “value of an idea is 0 unless it can be communicated” nice presentation by @azaaza http://bit.ly/aDgNtq
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @rotkapchen Paul Bennett “…the experience comes first at all times…experiences are real.” http://twurl.nl/2mp6gy #ux #contentstrategy <fairly old (2006) but still useful interview with one of IDEO’s lead designers
  • DavidGurteen: The origins of Cynefin (part 3) http://bit.ly/bQNpQt #KM @snowded <interesting to note not a single reference to Cynefin’s co-creator Cynthia Kurtz, other than one aside about “Cynthia’s managers being present”
  • DavidGurteen: Isn’t KM everyone’s job? http://bit.ly/dsQike #KM <another insightful Nick Milton piece on #km – applies equally to #entarch #bizarch etc
  • unorder: RT @darrenp3: The 3 great lies procurement tell: In the last week I have had several procurement people… http://bit.ly/aeFkTB
  • unorder: Anecdote.com went live yesterday. Check out how we help people make their strategies stick. http://bit.ly/ccouda #storytelling #strategy #km
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @lifedreamer_09: 10 Lessons in Creativity From the ArtGame Weekend in Paris http://bit.ly/cSk3sD <recommend #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Divergence in a creative process is quite different than irrelevance, even tho neither may make “sense” at first glance

Social-media, ‘enterprise 2.0’ and on-line collaboration:

  • BillIves: via @SameerPatel: Insightful post by @rotkapchen, Infrastructure for Synchronicity http://ow.ly/26PMX #e20 #entarch
  • oscarberg: RT @rlavigne42: Another great post by Cecil on Enterprise 2.0 integration : 12 questions to challenge existing processes « hypertextual http://post.ly/lyWS #e20 #entarch
  • getstoried: Wow! RT @MagicSauceMedia: RT @jowyang Matrix: Challenges of the Social Technology Industry, July 2010 « Web Strategy.. http://bit.ly/bXGHG8 <very useful summary of business challenges
  • unorder: The essence of the web. See pic.  http://yfrog.com/9dm03xj “globally distributed, near instant person-to-person communications”
  • hebsgaard: The Action, Reaction, Management, Process (ARM) for Social #CRM http://bit.ly/av7QYt
  • joyce_hostyn: is storytelling part of your #contentstrategy? Storytelling is the Future of the Web by @chrbutler http://bit.ly/8ZpYyB <storytelling linked to #ux user-experience for website-design
  • oscarberg: #e20 adoption is about adopting new behaviors & practices enabled by social technologies. It’s not about systems / platforms // I’ve seen many “adopt” social platforms without changing their behaviors (such as from need-to-know to need-to-share)
  • oscarberg: RT @hjarche: Fantastic prez by @sbskmi on complexity, social learning & collective intelligence http://is.gd/dkrDZ via @sebpaquet <Open University doc on complexity crosslinked to ‘power of pull’ etc
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @storytellin – Echo: Join the Real-Time Web -  http://aboutecho.com/ <”next-generation comments for your website” – not sure about this as yet, but seems well worth exploring as soon as I can invent the time to do so!

IT-architectures, software-development and related matters:

  • bartleeten: Models, Methods and Tools for Availability Assessment of IT-Services and Business Processes http://icio.us/reompz <academic study of methods (280pg PDF) – important for #itarch
  • bartleeten: RT @krismeukens: A great collection of EA resources http://icio.us/wdegsa <more #itarch than #entarch, but useful anyway
  • adrianrcampbell: Common Reference Architecture at http://www.coramodel.com/ good for #Entarch <more accurately, (very) good for #itarch
  • kvistgaard: Task Juggler http://bit.ly/aHZ9WX looks like an interesting (and different!) open source tool for software project management.
  • bartleeten: RT @SiteonMobile: Yesterday finally we unveiled siteonmobile.com for emerging markets, lot of media buzz, still by invitation… <technology to compress websites for display on mobile (even SMS)
  • jdevoo: RT @akosma: Very interesting page with indication of known issues that might get your app rejected from the App Store http://bit.ly/dmIShh

Society, cultures, corporate social responsibility and suchlike:

  • rettema: Reading Komatsu about mimic words in Japanese language – inter-sensory nature is an essential to mimic words. // Komatsu – A very functional usage of mimic words is expression of our visceral senses not by specialists but by ordinary Japanese. // Okubyosa (Cowardliness) -> Odo-Odo:Nervous -> Moji-Moji: Fidgeting // When the sign of mimic words works in communication, it can not fix the meaning to be expressed. // Using MIMIC words (1), we avoid expressing clear meanings that cause a sharp contrast of values // Using MIMIC words (2), we describe an event in which the subject and the object are inclusive. // Semiotic Process of and Mimic Words in the Communication, great reading of Komatsu
  • ironick: sobering RT @nika7k: RSA Animate – Crises of Capitalism (FANTASTIC VIDEO) http://youtu.be/qOP2V_np2c0 #collapsonomics <agree ++ (mostly – to me standard Marxism is just another variant on re-arranging the deckchairs, still doesn’t address the deep-problems)
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @brainpicker – Ecosystems of the world, in one infographic – amazing interconnectedness of life – http://bit.ly/9raibi
  • alphalo: the giftflow project  www.giftflow.org #economics #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • SAlhir: The Meaning and Purpose of Culture http://tinyurl.com/2ekj58o <another interesting-looking item that I don’t have time to explore in depth right now…

And, once more, the multifarious miscellany:

  • erikproper: Does anyone know if there is software yet that lets you control an ipad from another Mac? I.e. like a 2nd screen on your desk … // Yessssss … http://bit.ly/byjdey [AirPad] // Using my iPad as extended screen. Actual work on the main screen, and using Tweetdeck on the iPad. All from my Macbook Pro.
  • thoughttrans: 5 More Cool Tools for Creatives – http://b2l.me/8a2cb <<Jodi Kaplan found some really cool productive tools <includes stock-image searches and eJunkie shopping-cart – useful
  • craighepburn: Backup your social life here at backupify, could this be a whole new area of business for #ECM companies :-) http://bit.ly/2uBXBt
  • tebbo: WooHoo: via @elsua @neridahart wow — type in any word/phrase http://bit.ly/buEBkQ / What a fantastic find! <impressive toolset! – a really ingenious search/aggregator
  • SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis RT @jeericson: “Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Clive Barker <just seemed an apposite quote, somehow…
  • unorder: The opposite of play is not work, it’s depression. via ABC radio. <ouch… painfully accurate…
]]> http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/18/tweetweek-04jul/feed/ 0 A week in Tweets: 27 June – 3 July 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/18/tweetweek-27jun/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/18/tweetweek-27jun/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:30:03 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=1161 Oops… starting to slide back again. (My excuse was that I wanted all the Enterprise Canvas articles to appear together in the weblog, without the sequence being interrupted by any other articles.) Anyway, catching up, another week’s worth of Tweets and linked, sorted into the usual categories. Over to you: Share and Enjoy?

Enterprise architecture, business-architecture, strategy and ‘big-picture’ business matters in general:

  • SAlhir: RT @jorgebarba Starbucks and the Power of Story #marketing http://icio.us/mxz0o0
  • CreatvEmergence: Wisdom from Bucky Fuller (new blog post inspired by a play) http://bit.ly/dtjJWd <useful insights on organic complexity
  • SAlhir: Agility: Not merely how fast you can do the same thing again & again, but how readily you can do something radically different.
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @ariegoldshlager: The Laws of Simplicity: http://bit.ly/rjq1p <Yes! Big diff. bet. randomly simple & coherently patterned simplicity
  • CreatvEmergence: Old dichotomized splits (i.e., passion OR work) are emerging into new Yes-And wholes (passion AS work) #e20 #entarch #bizarch
  • unorder: There are still people who think a strategy is a document. Strategizing, engaging & communicating it with clarity is strategy.
  • jdevoo: RT @davegray: Empathy Map Poster http://post.ly/l7KC >> useful for defining personas in product roadmaps <as shown in #BMGen book #bizarch #entarch
  • greblhad: Section One – Strategy: http://wp.me/p7ejN-7R <unusual adaptation of Sun Tzu ‘Art of War’ for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • greblhad: The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Two – Doing Architecture: http://wp.me/p7ejN-7Z <more ‘Sun Tzu for #entarch ‘ :-)
  • greblhad: The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Three – Planning The Architecture: http://wp.me/p7ejN-82 <Sun Tzu for #entarch ! – a great series of ‘translations’ by Jurgen Dalhberg
  • oscarberg: A reluctant adopter: someone who’s negative to or cynical about a new thing (iPad etc) but buys it anyway – Wired June 2010 <sounds like me and iPad… :-)
  • chrisdpotts: @kdierc Strategic storytelling = foundations of scenario planning = foundations of investment planning (not mutually exclusive) // “Strategic planning” can be many things. Best to ask ’show me your strategic plans’ and see what is offered.
  • thoughttrans: RT @estherderby “know how” without “know when” can make a real mess of things. <yup…also need to know ‘why’ // #BizArch #entarch needs to start with WHY … not how or what
  • ironick: #designthinking meets #theoryU & #presencing. cool. now we just need to add #resilience/#panarchy for the trifecta! http://bit.ly/aoJcP2
  • greblhad: Interesting PDF by Seth Loyd on Measures of Complexity http://bit.ly/d6NzoF <brief summary [2001] on metrics, useful in #entarch etc
  • hebsgaard:Gartner: Sustainability Is Great: Could I Have the Light Version, Please? #gov20 http://tinyurl.com/3×3pwdw <definitely underwhelmed by this piece, should really have been titled “In Praise of Short-Term Thinking As A Substitute For Strategy”…  a nice reminder of why not to use Gartner…
  • SAlhir: Tribal Leadership: Tribes and Tribal Leaders: http://wp.me/pohx0-cR <detailed research on ‘tribes’ in orgs #entarch #bizarch
  • SAlhir: RT @joegerstandt: “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” -W. Edwards Deming
  • aojensen: Pondering a new model of architecture and postmodern complexity: Deleuze’s rhizome as the substitute for architectural layers and control.
  • CreatvEmergence: Yes! Diff. bet. random improvisation & discipline of “Improv” – Neil Mullarkey on Applied Improv – formal disciplines of application in business etc -  http://youtu.be/RWUOyeI5AQc
  • kvistgaard: We are so used to representing time the way we do spatial dimensions that sometimes such models rule our minds instead of just helping out.
  • hebsgaard: RT @plumaslaker: RT @citizen_bob: Gartner Launches Open Government Maturity Model http://bit.ly/cqZ3YM #gov20 <relevant for not-for-profit variants of #entarch – but tantalisingly blurry and incomplete, as is usual for Gartner…
  • kvistgaard: Doner kebab places can teach a thing or 2 Western fast food chains about optimised processes. This coming from a culture not as anxious about time
  • greblhad: When logical analysis becomes problematic intuitive jumps can help you reach the design your intellect is looking for. <agree: analysis can only go backwards – hence intuitive jump, analytic backfill
  • CreatvEmergence: Whole Systems Healing – http://www.csh.umn.edu/wsh (via @cyber_shaman) <okay, now apply this to #entarch #bizarch etc..
  • unorder: MITSloan Review: Decision based evidence making http://bit.ly/cn2PyR <v.important must-read for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • jdevoo: RT @SmallRivers: and now paper.li on ReadWriteWeb http://bit.ly/aPfydA “It seems to be a remarkably able expression of the concerns and interests of a user” <interesting business/technology, though not sure about the business-model as such
  • Eclectopedic: RT @sebpaquet: Awesome talk by @junecohen on TED’s Transition from Conference to Platform – http://bit.ly/aOn2m3 (in four words: Quality open content pays) <note also the importance of shifting from product (‘we do conferences’) to vision (‘ideas worth spreading’)
  • bartleeten: RT @cbcurran Enterprise Architecture Strategies From Large Companies — CIO Dashboard http://bit.ly/9Z0xHY <the usual IT-oriented ‘enterprise’-architecture, but useful nonetheless, and not IT-centric as such
  • taotwit: RT @j4ngis: “Don’t play with the system unless you understand it.”  <— But  without play & explore it is hard to understand the system….
  • DavidGurteen: Steve Denning: What HBR hasn’t noticed: four reasons why management needs radical change http://bit.ly/95Lp6f #km #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: The void isn’t empty – it’s filled with creative potential calling to be shaped, formed and cultivated into the world <the non-empty ‘Chaotic’ domain, in Cynefin terms
  • tebbo: RT @jchernov: RT @dmscott: New! Download my free Marketing Strategy Planning Template http://bit.ly/dCkx7y <Downloaded AND pinned it to my wall! <simple and useful for basic #bizarch etc
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @VenessaMiemis – How Can Futures Thinking Amplify Design Thinking? http://bit.ly/cD3neU < #designthinking #futures
  • JohnPolgreen: RT @ gotze What kind of ppl would be good coaches/mentors to aspiring enterprise architects? #entarch << holistic thinkers w biz experience
  • getstoried: a fresh perspective on the gift economy RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: Gifts, misunderstood http://bit.ly/dALh2J <Godin at his best… a must-read for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • kdierc: RT @alecsharp “How Does Google Work?” diagram with lots of circles and arrows and snippets – brilliant. http://bit.ly/bXJVn8 <very nice infographic
  • CreatvEmergence: Nice slideshow by frog design! Better Ideas Faster – http://bit.ly/aZH8iI via @ariegoldshlager <from strategy to execution: very nice, very useful – recommend #entarch etc
  • SAlhir: RT @umairh It’s when an org is loved for who it is -not merely what it makes- that it’s begun learning to make the competition irrelevant. <is key in #bizarch etc
  • chrisdpotts: An categorised inventory of components is valuable, but is it architecture? #entarch <short answer: “nope” :-) - but yes, agreed, plenty of people do seem to think it is…
  • JohnPolgreen: RT @chrispotts An inventory of components is valuable, but is it architecture? #entarch << such a list is but one of 60 artifacts in #TOGAF.
  • DavidGurteen: Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution In the Making http://bit.ly/drWhJI <long (80min) lecture by Otto Scharmer, one of the principals of ‘TheoryU’, ‘Presencing’ etc
  • bartleeten: The over-reaction architecture governance anti-pattern http://j.mp/aXlUL9 #entarch
  • greblhad: RT @ RosabethKanter 15 steps for successful strategic alliances (and marriages) http://bit.ly/bBSIsW << I say Yes! <yup – a very nice (and useful) checklist for #bizarch etc
  • kvistgaard: WHAT from the perspective of WHY looks almost like HOW from the perspective of WHAT. <important in #entarch etc
  • rubber_duck6072: the REAL MEASURE of customer service is whether a website allows you to post a complaint – if they dont LISTEN why should we?! // REAL CUSTOMER SERVICE means engaging your customer in a conversation – if you can’t listen how can you help?
  • AussiMike: A Rough Primer on Enterprise Architecture http://ff.im/-n9cXr <useful summary from Microsoft’s Nick Malik – though note fairly intense discussion in the comments…

A few responses to my ‘Enterprise Canvas’ concept:

  • tetradian: [post] The Quest for the Enterprise Canvas http://bit.ly/aAgzMP #entarch #bizarch
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian  The best canvas for creative self-expression is a blank one…. #entarch
  • JohnPolgreen: RT @chrisdpotts @tetradian The best canvas for creative self-expression is a blank one….  << is this ever true for #entarch? I think not.
  • tetradian: [post] The Enterprise Canvas, Part 1: Context and Value http://bit.ly/dopjwl #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘The Enterprise Canvas, Part 2: Market and Supply-Chain’ http://bit.ly/aMd2RQ #entarch #bizarch

Narrative knowledge, knowledge-management and in-person collaborarion:

  • unorder: New post on Origins: Your Voice in Story http://is.gd/d5Zfd #fb #ln #yam #storytelling <the literal voice in narrative – recommend
  • CreatvEmergence: The words “…or not” at the end of everything we hold as true at any given moment opens space for new yes-ands to emerge // Like it! RT @Eclectopedic: @CreatvEmergence Always love in Tom Stoppard plays – beautifully put idea or argument – and then ‘or not’.
  • CoCreatr: @CreatvEmergence and so do “what if” or “why not” at the beginning of a statement. // :-) More about yesbut and whynot http://www2.gol.com/users/bn/html/whynottr.htm
  • oscarberg: For whatever I do I try to find Purpose, Passion, and Perseverance <nice… good point…
  • SAlhir: RT @zenext RT @greenskeptic A Yu’pik elder explained that consensus needn’t mean mutual agreement, but rather mutual understanding <another very good point…
  • oscarberg: RT @dsearls: “The best way to destroy a relationship is to try to manage what the other person does.” Allan Mitchell in http://bit.ly/bxdl5y #VRM #CRM
  • CreatvEmergence: Expand the capacity to hold ambiguity -> expand your capacity to create
  • Eclectopedic: via @dangrsmind Virtues of a Wandering Mind – http://nyti.ms/bM7PZe /At last, some counterpoint to the constant drumbeat of focus, focus!
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @hermione1: #cxp10 there isn’t often a rational reason why someone takes action. You need emotional connections to drive breakthrough experiences
  • greblhad: Excellent blueprint for a creative workplace http://bit.ly/cQteW2 <looks good, tho’ download requires Flickr account… #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: List of HBR articles related to creativity: http://hbr.org/search/creativity
  • ancillaryIPs: Creative Vision: By Gavin Artz – July 5th 2010 Originally published in Filter Magazine http… http://goo.gl/fb/UwpHe
  • CreatvEmergence: Big diff. between safety & stability in facilitating co-creative process. Former opens the field, latter shuts it down.
  • getstoried: All that stands between vision and reality is people embracing the story as their own.  #storytelling #strategy <…and likewise for implementation / execution of #entarch #bizarch etc
  • oscarberg: Blogged: Why changing 1.0 behaviors is harder than we might think http://bit.ly/99DzFJ #AIIM #e20 <core reason is ‘exhaustion of self-control’ – see ‘Switch’ by Chip & Dan Heath

Social media, ‘enterprise 2.0’ and on-line collaboration:

  • tebbo: RT @tomforemski: RT @steverubel: You don’t need a social media strategy – You need a brand strategy that leverages social media http://j.mp/97BBWg
  • jdevoo: #junto overview by @venessamiemis http://is.gd/d97uF /via @openworld <important for future #entarch – also #e20 folks take note?
  • CreatvEmergence: Mapping the field of Collective Wisdom – http://bit.ly/9ukOCA – via RT @VenessaMiemis @wwjimd @technoshaman
  • BillIves: Top ten ways social media is teaching us to be human again http://bit.ly/aKMunR <great examples from Nike and VW ‘Fun Theory’
  • greblhad: RT @fdomon Social learning theory http://dlvr.it/2CZC3 < interesting <unstructured sequence of notes, but interesting and useful nonetheless

IT-architectures, information-systems and other IT-related matters:

  • trevorsnaith: ‘Street-smart’ enterprise architects: EA still too fixated on technology, vs business | ZDNet http://bit.ly/cK0b3y <yes!!
  • basvg: @greblhad one of the things you should put in a TOGAF training: when to use it, and when _not_ to use it. #entarch

Culture, society, corporate social responsibility and suchlike:

  • florian__: Sadness in the information area: getting together for a good time and still hooked on phones http://twitpic.com/209p7d <picture says it all, really… :-)
  • CreatvEmergence: Rachel Armstrong on the Collaboration of Science and Art – http://bit.ly/dljY99 <shifts in creativity in science itself
  • CreatvEmergence: “Innovations for a free, resilient, and generous world” – http://www.openworld.com – via @openworld
  • Eclectopedic: Cosma Rohilla Shalizi shld be must-read for economists. Case in point: article on Homo Reciprocans: http://bit.ly/aoPwD9
  • alphalo: comment made in our gift circle workshop RT @whathelenesaid Capitalism looks at objects, gift economy looks at people and needs. <would have said that capitalism looks at people as objects…
  • SAlhir: RT @mitchjoel: RT @SirKenRobinson: The gap widens between education and  the world we’re creating: http://tinyurl.com/25hct65 <NY Times article on US employment requiring higher-skilled workers (but no means to create those higher skills…)
  • via tebbo: Andy Grove (Intel): How to make an American job before it’s too late http://bit.ly/ckIHlP <v.important #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • SAlhir: RT @RosabethKanter Scarcity feeds resentment. Powerlessness, especially in the middle, corrupts organizations  http://bit.ly/bweMql <some useful crosslinks here with my work on the SEMPER diagnostic and on the ‘manifesto on power and response-ability’
  • Eclectopedic: RT @KenMcCarthy How the Dutch handle oil spills. We need to get a grip & grow up http://bit.ly/bsBEBK /A tragedy of errors <…arising from an odd mixture of national arrogance and the ‘need’ to find some ‘Other’ to blame? – very worthwhile read on #entarch disaster-recovery planning, #csr and the necessary and active role of the state

And, of course, the magnanimous miscellany:

  • tebbo: Media Skills 101 (reprise). http://bit.ly/9N7wp2 Written 5 years ago for ‘handling the press’ but most of the principles still hold.
  • davidriveroll: 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers – Smashing Magazine http://bit.ly/91dA7n A webdesigner’s dream come true! <v.useful for those of us who do rough-prototypes of possible software projects
  • davidriveroll: RT @wpmuorg: WPMU News: 10 of the Best Tutorials to Get You Up to Speed With WordPress 3.0 http://bit.ly/a6HbXI
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @livingarchitect – Next Nature: Self Repairing Architecture – http://bit.ly/bLtgEX <article by Rachel Armstrong on science behind possible mechanism for stabilising Venice structure/infrastructure
]]> http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/18/tweetweek-27jun/feed/ 0 A week in Tweets: 20-26 June 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/01/tweetweek-20jun/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/07/01/tweetweek-20jun/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:02:22 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=1033 Getting close to catch-up, the previous week’s collection of Tweets and links. Usual categories, of course, plus a couple of extras this time.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and the like:

  • Cybersal: “Complexity is the new reality” – 1 of 9 things you need to know about Internet by @jjn1 in today’s observer http://bit.ly/buiQ4k Brilliant. <long Guardian article providing useful overview – see esp. item 9, on intellectual property
  • Cybersal: Blog by British Airways CIO @PaulCoby on use of LEAN as enabler of change in an airline: http://bit.ly/bqr81e He’s asking for comments. <recommend for its view of whole-enterprise #entarch – “there should be no IT projects – only business projects”
  • taotwit: Revamped the 5Di site – http://bit.ly/cQUefl -  better reflects my current focus Simple Business Events Processing #sbep #vpect
  • unorder: RT @AStoriedCareer: #storytelling ‘A Company Without a Story Is Usually a Company Without a Strategy’ http://bit.ly/ai4FG9
  • aojensen: Integrating Luhmann’s theory of socio-communication and Enterprise Architecture. Excited. <interesting.. let us know more, please? #entarch
  • 5Di: FedEx & Internet of Things http://bit.ly/bm8tVE – http://bit.ly/63lrqy #sbep using existing cellphone technology! #entarch #bizarch <very interesting – real applications of IoT creating new business-models etc – first link is Fedex intro, second is descriptive article on ReadWriteWeb
  • chrisdpotts: @thoughttrans shape=external boundary of structure.  Observer will discern pattern(s) of shape, or lack thereof. #entarch // Enterprise’s shape = messages & behaviors at its boundaries with the wider world. (#entarch often seems primarily interested in structure).
  • taotwit: @chrisdpotts : WRT messages & behaviors .. wider  wider world. (#entarch often seems primarily interested in structure). Agreed! // and focus on structure *over * Value Systems and desired Outcomes (internal or external) #entarch
  • thoughttrans: Mandatory Versus Choice: http://EzineArticles.com/4528445 <yes, tho for me problem is too many options, not too few.. :-(
  • thoughttrans: Curiosity Trumps Knowledge http://bit.ly/98uzJR <”we can never know as much about the business as those that live it every day” #entarch
  • Cybersal: RT @eda__c Slidedeck from #irmeac conf now online: Visible #EntArch: Designing Enterprise-People #UX http://slidesha.re/9Oxcd9 <recommend for whole-of-enterprise #entarch #bizarch
  • SAlhir: RT @jorgebarba: The Six Secrets of Business Model Exploration (PDF) #innovation #strategy http://post.ly/kQIB #bmgen #bizarch
  • SAlhir: Purpose is a matter of life or death (per @jorgebarba Why purpose matters http://ow.ly/17PBCP) & Purposeful Enterprise http://is.gd/cZZfF
  • chrisdpotts: Innovation versus efficiency.  Only a zero-sum-game if you treat it like one (and if it isn’t, that’s usually a losing strategy). #CIO
  • chrisdpotts: RT @ColinBeveridge: RT @ClaireBoyles: You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown #quote #entarch <ouch… good point…
  • SAlhir: It can be hard 2 believe an organization’s only goal is 2 encourage others 2 do good—but that really is Y we exist. http://www.values.com/
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @rotkapchen: Highly recommended: The Power of Pull Newsletters/Booklets (email required) http://twurl.nl/dgph75 Booklet 1: (cont) http://tl.gd/228nh2
  • craighepburn: RT @irina_guseva: RT @elreiss: The web is NOT about IT. Just because a book is printed on paper, it doesn’t mean Tolstoy was working for the lumber industry. <exact same applies to #entarch… not that you’d know it from what most ‘EAs’ say…
  • SAlhir: RT @tomschulte: What is The Business Case for Trust? http://su.pr/8viGqH <essential for #bizarch #entarch
  • chrisdpotts: @taotwit Gaudi’s architecture: fantastic.  But is it ‘best practice’?  #entarch
  • taotwit: @chrisdpotts  Certainly *not* – *best practice* is an ugly term used by consultants meaning what they have in the filing cab! #entarch // Why is it that that my hair stand on end when I hear *Best Practice* ? Often feels more an excuse to be sold something.
  • bartleeten: Any good pointers to Archimate extensions (requirements, project/program), timeline for inclusion within standard, tools? #archimate
  • kvistgaard: @bartleeten yes, I have some related mainly to motivation domain. Can send you a meta-model.
  • business_design: “income/revenues is an outcome of having customers” Patrick Stähler #BMIBerlin <a too-often forgotten fact in #bizarch? (cf. other article earlier today on ‘ROI of Trust’…)
  • kdierc: RT @krismeukens: Moving from Strategic Planning to Storytelling, excellent tactic for #entarch http://icio.us/zqx4sd <another solid piece on strategy by Roger Martin, doyen of design-thinking for business
  • 5Di: Where did  all the BAs go http://bit.ly/aJd1pB .. long time passing? “What happened to the fine art of business-analysis?” #vpect
  • thoughttrans: RT @scottwambler We can’t optimize the whole when we don’t know what the whole even is. It’s certainly more than software development. <Scott Ambler is one of the originators of the Agile movement in software development
  • basvg: blogpost: granularity of business functions in ArchiMate http://tinyurl.com/2ed4vln (comments more than welcome) #entarch
  • davidcushman: RT @jmacdonald: #mlove Softbank CEO when asked about 5 year plan says “actually I think in 300 year terms.” Holy cow… <hooray! someone in business actually thinking in terms of real #entarch!
  • ironick: GE Health: “Our goal is 2 create an alchemy combining the magic of science with empathy” http://bit.ly/ctw8C8 hybrid #designthinking via @PhilMcCreight
  • via @ironick: GE: ‘Brains over brawn’ (video) – nice example of #innovation and ‘trystorming’ in engineering http://bit.ly/9uAky1
  • business_design: A Business Model Innovator is a person who solves the puzzle of getting a customer’s job done in a new and (more) profitable manner
  • adrianrcampbell: For Business Dynamic Modelling/Systems Thinking check out the learning program “Insight Maker” at http://www.insightmaker.com/
  • SAlhir: RT @GuyKawasaki: How to be happy – interview with Tony Hsieh of @zappos http://om.ly/mmnb #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • thoughttrans: After the brainstorm: Church of the Customer Blog http://bit.ly/dzPRLW - the hard part is getting to execution #entarch
  • Cybersal: RT @gtdguy Your system is not your tech – it’s the nature of the content & the behavior w/which you engage with it.>> Applies to #entarch
  • kdierc: RT @mcgoverntheory: The biggest barrier to being open is a systemic and cultural aversion to failure. Openness required for sustained competitive advantage.#CIO

A brief discussion on enterprise-architecture triggered by Chris Potts:

  • chrisdpotts: Each of us is an enterprise-of-one. We participate in many other enterprises, large and small. #entarch <agree – is layered
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian Participation in Enterprises: more networks than layers.
  • chrisdpotts: The full equation:  Architecture = Environment + Purpose + Themes + Self Expression + Shape + Structure + Spaces.  #IRMEAC
  • Cybersal: @chrisdpotts Yes, I think that there is some mileage in looking at PEA (Personal Enterprise Architecture) Also relates to PKM
  • chrisdpotts: @Cybersal As a former Information Architect, I see many subtypes of the object ‘Enterprise’, and a many-to-many between Enterprise & itself
  • chrisdpotts: @Cybersal The range of  “Enterprise” subtypes is expanding as new definitions are invented for specific methods/books/etc.
  • thoughttrans: @tetradian @cybersal @chrisdpotts Yes,PEA (personal EA) is imp.Orgs r made of many personals.aligning “whys” between biz & person helps all
  • taotwit: RT @mattdeacon: Great time at #IRMEAC last week! You can get my deck from here http://bit.ly/aaJ2NZ <mostly on cloud #itarch #entarch
  • chrisdpotts: An Enterprise’s shape: how it behaves at its boundaries. To an onlooker, some Enterprises have more coherent shapes than others. #entarch // In your #entarch design, does shape dictate structure, or vice-versa (game-changing decision!)?

Another brief discussion, starting from a very important blog-post by Cynthia Kurtz, the co-creator of Cynefin:

  • unorder: Cynthia Kurtz on her work with the Cynefin framework http://is.gd/cZD1Q <absolutely essential reading on #cynefin for #entarch!
  • adrianrcampbell: Interesting to consider whether the VPEC-T approach could be used to analyse the content of each Cynefin zone? #entarch
  • taotwit: @adrianrcampbell  have been playing  with Cynefin and VPEC-T for a while -  Cynefin areas seems to change the emphasis on V-P-E-C -T #vpect // maybe: simple = vPeCt: complex = VpEcT: complicated = vPECT: Chaotic = vpEct ? #vpect + #cynefin + #entarch
  • adrianrcampbell: Maybe we need a different #entarch development process for each of Simple, Complex, Complicated & Chaotic zones as well?

Knowledge-management, narrative-knowledge and in-person collaboration:

  • unorder: How to choose a good story for retelling [video] http://j.mp/927ao4 #originsstory
  • SAlhir: Governance/oversight is not always due to a lack of trust but to foster alignment, etc. … // … to foster confidence by triangulating perspectives toward essential convergence rather than happenstantial divergence.
  • thoughttrans: RT @scottwambler Unless you’re a vampire you shouldn’t be afraid of stakeholders. ;-) >or execs…must show respect…no need to fear
  • CreatvEmergence: 1 of the Principles of Creative Emergence: It can’t be winged or faked – it has to be lived & embodied…authentically
  • joyce_hostyn: by @stevedenning Business as usual will kill yr org, rethink traditional command & control to survive http://bit.ly/ayHVvq
  • CreatvEmergence: Navigating the Unknown: 7 Reflection Tools – http://bit.ly/ajH4UV // The future belongs to those who partner with & co-create with the Unknown (not fear it, avoid it or try to control it)
  • CreatvEmergence: Collective Emergence Resources (on Semantic Integration Blog) http://bit.ly/bxC3U0 <useful overview-’reader’/resources
  • ironick: Take this empathy test to see if you have enough to be a good design thinker: http://bit.ly/c8jvGE #designthinking
  • smbounds: Why art communities and patrons are very similar to knowledge workers and their clients http://bit.ly/bqIa1U #km #entarch
  • unorder: Just published a list of Story Laden Business Books – great for finding great stories to tell http://is.gd/d4dzI

Social-media, ‘Enterprise 2.0’ and on-line collaboration:

  • hebsgaard: Jim McGee: Managing the visibility of knowledge work #km http://tinyurl.com/36lx8ht <a real concern for #entarch #bizarch too
  • miket0181: RT @VenessaMiemis: holy. want. #junto http://knowledgecartography.org/ <wow… live contextual knowledge visualisation…
  • joyce_hostyn: 7 reasons to base design on real content (death to lorem ipsum). “Great interfaces are written.” via @jeffparks http://bit.ly/9qNwYM
  • oscarberg: #e20 principles & tech can be applied to both highly structured repetitive work (processes) & knowledge work with emergent structure // We should not make #e20 be about process vs culture. It’s about improving businesses – where culture always is key <perhaps applies even more to #entarch
  • oscarberg: I believe the most potential of #e20 is in improving knowledge work – which by nature is collaborative with emergent structure // If you focus on more or less structured work when applying #e20 is just a matter of purpose. There is no contradiction. // Businesses that don’t get importance of culture typically think more control => improved productivity & quality #fail

IT-architecture and IT-related matters in general:

  • jdevoo: Very cool stuff: Pachube presentation at Internet of Things Europe 2010 http://bit.ly/cRHaVn <something to watch for the future #itarch #entarch
  • taotwit: EAC London presentation: Simple Business Event Processing http://bit.ly/cU3tcf #sbep #vpect <insightful #itarch #entarch
  • BillIves: RT @skemsley: Wow: Live map of London Underground trains http://j.mp/bHmbwa > very cool
  • 5Di: Here’s what Simplified Business Event Processing looks like in action: http://bit.ly/a9lHKB no CEP required! #sbep <points to real-time map of location of trains on London Underground
  • toddbiske: RT @atmanes: #cat10 @richwatson If your app isn’t designed to scale in-house, it won’t scale any better in the cloud. Redesign required for parallelism #itarch
  • basvg: RT @rkroese: RT @itworks: Very interesting one-hour webcasts about ArchiMate, EA modelling, The Open Group, TOGAF, … http://bit.ly/9w7Mye
  • trevorsnaith: Creating context between BPM and EA http://lnkd.in/wNwhuk – useful post by @nickmalik #entarch #bpm

Society, culture, business social responsibility and similar broad-issue themes:

  • davidcushman: Some facts about BP: 40% US owned. More US employees than UK. Nothing to do with the Queen. No, really. #shootingatyourownfeet <nice to see some realism amidst all the inane anti-BP hype… most of the attacks so blatantly glad to have some ‘foreigner’ to blame for the US’ own policies and behaviours…
  • SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis: video: Rise of Collaborative Consumption http://bit.ly/aQl9HE via @rachelbotsman <implications for #entarch?
  • simonbrown: RT @wearewebreality: The value of boredom, or Why I Returned my iPad: http://bit.ly/9Zv4y7 <boredom as a key source of innovation – good points indeed (though ‘ouch…’, because I’d just bought an iPad… :-) )
  • BillIves: IBM Study: Millennials & New Corp Leaders – Soc Responsibility Essential http://bit.ly/bKqtCT via @tomforemski @johnjambrose #csr #entarch
  • enterprisearchs: RT @HarvardBiz: Four Economic Benchmarks We Need Now http://s.hbr.org/bdgkA7 <Umair Haque: radical rethink required on macroeconomics, with major implications for #entarch
  • jdevoo: Publications by Liz Cox of New Economics Foundation http://bit.ly/9N2aKY #transitionculture

And, without fail, the much-loved miscellany:

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Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and all that kind of ‘big picture’ stuff:

  • richardveryard: @tetradian @DavidGurteen On the relevance of Cloud/Clock to SOA and EA, see my blog. http://tinyurl.com/29spvlg http://tinyurl.com/28sp3jf <useful commentaries on cloud, SOA and uncertainty going as far back as 2007
  • 5Di: RT @richardveryard: Essential messiness, trust & storytelling. on plurality of real-world organisations. http://tinyurl.com/2w29l2x <recommend – very useful summary of #VPECT and its role in understanding business communication
  • JohnPolgreen: San Fran #TOGAF cert course: Don’t use TOGAF out of the box – map to your established structures and processes. <yet another confirmation from an active practitioner that the TOGAF ’standard’ isn’t a standard…
  • taotwit: RT @alan_inglis: 10 enterprise architecture pitfalls -  http://is.gd/cNGZy, summarized – http://is.gd/cNGTO >> some familiar anti-patterns <about #entarch in the health context – recommended
  • oscarberg: “Is Google losing the plot?” http://tinyurl.com/37xjeur by @gerrymcgovern via @axbom @letterpress_se > Agree 100% <good points about Google and the dangers of abandoning simplicity
  • CAEAP: Good article on EA: http://lnkd.in/YwfmJi <”EA does not belong in IT”: still somewhat IT-oriented, but not IT-centric as such – hooray! #entarch
  • CAEAP: Professional Practice Guide for Enterprise Architects: CLICK: http://lnkd.in/ZyZcZy <I haven’t yet read this in depth – 31pgs plus other ‘artifacts’ – important for development of #entarch profession
  • CreatvEmergence: Trends in Living Networks – http://bit.ly/cz7AlH (via @johnt) <Ross Dawson on business implications #entarch
  • taotwit: will spend this week  trying to convince a PM of value of stakeholder management (e.g. V and T sensitivity ) – wish me luck! #vpect #entarch <V=values, T=trust
  • hebsgaard: HBR: Beyond GDP – interesting take on happiness http://bit.ly/d95Hw7 <towards realistic, meaningful economic metrics #entarch
  • rotkapchen: Biz 2.0: Orchestrated Improvisation- great improvisation relies heavily on structure! #e20 #gov20 http://bit.ly/abTXia <strong recommend #entarch #bizarch
  • ironick: I favorited a YouTube video — RSA Animate – The Secret Powers of Time http://youtu.be/A3oIiH7BLmg?a <another in Britain’s nearest equivalent to the TED presentations!
  • oscarberg: RT @weknowmore: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBR: Ten Essentials for Getting Value from Values http://ow.ly/17JtKS <v.strong recommend #entarch #bizarch – “it’s not the words that make a difference, it’s the conversation”
  • CreatvEmergence: Awesome list of 150 Great Foresight Books – http://bit.ly/d2SEOJ via @VenessaMiemis
  • ironick: Panarchy cycle: convergence > divergence > reorganization http://bit.ly/8olkaj RT @Rapidinnovation Divergence follows Convergence. Always. <agree with @ironick – it’s essentially the same as the old ‘thesis, antithesis, synthesis’ [also logic tells us that we can't have convergence until there's space to converge in, which means that some kind of divergence has to happen first!]
  • rettema: If each element knew what was happening to the system as whole, all complexity would have to be present in that element – DARKNESS PRINCIPLE // [also] If a system is to be stable the number of states of its control mechanism must be >= to the number of states in the system being controlled. // There is no accurate representation of the system which is simpler than the system itself. – Cilliers 2005
  • CreatvEmergence: Complexity Science and Innovation | InnovationManagement – http://bit.ly/bHc3VA – RT @lisakimball
  • trevorsnaith: Eduardo Jezierski: Architecture, Mobiles, and Health: 10 pitfalls http://bit.ly/attkLP <all forms of #entarch, not just health – v.strong recommend
  • SAlhir: Zappos’ Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness http://is.gd/cPwMR @dhbook // The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.  // Make shortterm sacrifices (including lost revenue or profits) if longterm benefits R worth it. // Core values are essentially a formalized definition of a company’s culture.  // Your personal core values define who you are, … // … and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. // For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. // No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future. (Author Unknown)
  • CreatvEmergence: Rethinking Transition as a Pattern Language – http://amplify.com/u/6w9u – via @opensource <apply also to #entarch business-transformation etc
  • oscarberg: The term “enterprise” implies “complex” => things need to be complex for people to consider them enterprise-worthy
  • CreatvEmergence: To the Improviser mistakes are invitations to create, the unknown is your bff, and the juice is in the journey <apply this to architectures (#entarch #bizarch etc), not just to improv theatre/comedy
  • taotwit: david byrne – on architectural context  http://bit.ly/cOj3wB >> how much time do EAs spend on context?
  • business_design: Like the simplicity RT @InnosightTeam: Check out Scott Anthony’s new HBR blog post, The 4 Ps of Innovation http://bit.ly/bVOuir <population, penetration, price, purchase-frequency – well, yes, yet perhaps a bit too simple?
  • gkathan: RT @nickmalik Improving how you measure the maturity of a business capability http://bit.ly/923LWH <useful in #bizarch #entarch
  • taotwit: Short video from LiTs editor Dan Woods, introducing VPEC-T: http://youtu.be/YTgIi2iP_Vg #vpect <useful short intro for #bizarch, summarising the ‘Lost In Translation’ book on VPEC-T
  • SAlhir: RT @umairh: strive for elegance, in everything you do. simplicity in harmony is the mark of true mastery. <key drivers for effectiveness
  • SAlhir: Commit-to-Do-or-Complete-X or Commit-to-Do-Your-Best-to-Do-or-Complete-X — Major difference! #agile #lean #kanban #scrum // Without commitment-based accountability, is there authentic commitment! // Without commitment-based accountability, is there legitimate accountability! <also key to responsibility-based enterprise-architectures and economies
  • kdierc: (Environment, purpose, themes, selfmade expression, structure, spaces) = enterprise architecture (dixit @chrisdpotts) #IRMEAC
  • Bonifer: The Power of Pull (by @jhagel john seely brown and lang davison) An appreciation: http://bit.ly/ck32N5 #gamechangers #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Essential Skills for 21st Century Survival, Part 4: Foresight, by @venessamiemis http://ow.ly/1Zhq0 <thorough as usual!
  • unorder: I see Atul Gawande’s new bestseller, Checklist Manifesto, attributes what is essentially the Cynefin framework to Profs in York & Toronto. <interesting… but it’s a common theme anyway
  • taotwit: RT @roygrubb: Impact of methods of communication on Trust http://bit.ly/cjJyO5 #vpect
  • oscarberg: RT @umairh: If you must attack, attack the vision, never the enemy. That’s Apple’s secret – hacking the “why”, not just the “who”.
  • oscarberg: Seth Godin: Goodbye to the office http://bit.ly/9akYjn <agree, mostly, yet there are other twists – this one needs a blog-article Real Soon Now…
  • business_design: official #bmgen [book ‘Business Model Generation’] release date by Wiley: July 12 (find them across the US, e.g. at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon/ 8-12 later in Europe :-(
  • ironick: RT @milouness @Karl_Lagerfeld: Designers must be conscious & unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle inspiration/talent. <very true…
  • bartleeten: The Dangers of “Checklist” Architecture http://j.mp/culmus <checklists fail when there’s no connection to ‘why’ #entarch
  • enterprisearchs: Business Architecture: The missing link between Business Strategy & Enterprise Architecture http://bit.ly/cEc1oN <huh?? OMG’s SOA Consortium have finally discovered the need for business-architecture?? this is bizarre… content is good, but it’s at least five years late… #entarch
  • erikproper: @enterprisearchs How can a subset (BA is a subset of EA) be a missing link? <it’s ‘missing’ if you don’t know it exists… #entarch
  • erikproper: @tetradian  @enterprisearchs Then its not a missing link, but a gap that needs to be filled. A link suggests its something new.
  • tetradian: @erikproper it seems ‘new’ if you’ve not seen it before… (cf. colonial powers ‘discovering’ countries – not new to those who lived there!)
  • thoughttrans: RT @bmichelson: ‘Street-smart’ enterprise architects: EA still too fixated on technology, versus business | ZDNet http://bit.ly/aRUiYv
  • thoughttrans: RT @breadedcod: RT @bergmart: Is it the EA’s role to safeguard the enterprise? #IRMEAC < from themselves, yes probably #entarch
  • thoughttrans: RT @gapingvoid RT @thinkBIG_blog: “If your content isn’t anticipated it just becomes noise.” <WOW! #entarch #bizarch
  • enterprisearchs: Street-smart’ enterprise architects: EA still too fixated on technology, versus business http://bit.ly/cK0b3y #entarch
  • hebsgaard: Robert Brands: Ownership of Innovation http://tinyurl.com/3ycrb2s <’own’ as responsibility, not possession! #entarch #bizarch
  • SAlhir: The critical elements for business success (review of Tony Hsieh’s ‘Delivering Happiness’ [Zappos] http://is.gd/cTp9T #entarch
  • scottwambler: @flowchainsensei @tetradian @chrisdpotts Architecture should first be about supporting the business effectively <agree
  • gagan_s: Architecture is firstly about aesthetics, then engineering @chrisdpotts #entarch /via @tetradian << Ergo, Architects need to wear both hats.
  • craighepburn: RT @armano: Mitch Lieberman: The value of good employees in the age of social business http://bit.ly/aiwDcW #bizarch
  • bartleeten: Architectural Agency http://bit.ly/deHjTx <”architects [should] take the responsibility to make their creations come to life”
  • business_design: Harvard Working Knowledge: The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact’ http://bit.ly/cPO7Nn <esp. useful for nonprofits
  • oscarberg: RT @joepine: Amen! RT @papillonc: The Business Case For Co-Creation http://bit.ly/cifsBM by @dannywong1190 #masscustom #CCCR
  • MBoskovic: Job 1 is to remove from the enterprise ‘energy vampires’ – people who are always negative – http://bit.ly/bLSBaX #entarch <excellent article on staff-overload in IT departments
  • MartinHowitt: @tetradian really hate describing of ppl as “negative”. Most of these ppl needed to fix faults cos happy-clappies won’t engage with problems
  • tetradian: @MartinHowitt point taken, yet also many who ‘prop self up by putting other down’ etc – see http://bit.ly/aet8a , http://bit.ly/aLPXCc
  • SAlhir: RT @joegerstandt: RT @LaKotipelto: Promising practices of organizational change: networking in spite of the silos! -HBR http://bit.ly/cH5NzQ <business-anarchist theme – deliberate shake-up to limit ‘corporate cholesterol’
  • davidcushman: RT @presans: Open innovation and industrial secrets #openinnovation http://bit.ly/9OvOpN <links to ‘lessons learned’ from US defence context

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management and anything to do with in-person collaboration:

  • CreatvEmergence: I thnk we shuld have 1 work day a week that’s all non-verbal, inviting us 2 use more of our brains 2 think, act & communicate
  • unorder: Via Anecdote: Storytelling in the wild and the need for chit chat http://is.gd/cRbiL <more great advice on stories and meaning
  • SAlhir: RT @zenext @elbarneshouse Yes connectivity, intentions, and responsibilities are choices, and our ecology of connections can enrich each
  • DavidGurteen: Dave Snowden’s slides from KM UK 2010 http://bit.ly/cihhsS #KM #KMUK10
  • getstoried: Best darn slides on #storytelling and #pr I’ve ever seen. Bravo @LouHoffman http://bit.ly/dAD0da
  • oscarberg: RT @johnt: Playing games with KM incentives by @nickknoco http://icio.us/nbfqgm > good anecdotes of ‘gaming’ of KM incentive-schemes
  • oscarberg: RT @johnt: Latest tumblr post: Talent and influence transcends hierarchy http://bit.ly/9INrv5 <useful visualisation of real-world example
  • oscarberg: RT @j4ngis: “Can we improve organizational intelligence?”  http://bit.ly/aGi1Fa (by @richardveryard)
  • SAlhir: RT @CoCreatr: #TEDTalk, Erin McKean “The internet is actually made up of words and enthusiasm.” http://u.nu/6t95c cc @VenessaMiemis <nice bright bubbly TED-video on the nature of language

’Enterprise 2.0’, social-media, user-experience and online-collaboration:

  • oscarberg: RT @webtechman: MIT’s Handbook of Collective Intelligence http://bit.ly/3sh0ui via @ariegoldshlager #e20 <useful wiki-based resource from MIT
  • joyce_hostyn: People are the heart of a conference experience: conversation by design http://bit.ly/bgBjJ2 [new post] #OTCW <practical advice on design of conference website and backchannel to support ongoing pre-/post-conference engagement
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @dhinchcliffe: RT @mikealber: By @cameron_chapman: Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design http://bit.ly/8Z7fPv <strong recommend – comprehensive, definitely also applicable to #entarch #bizarch etc
  • oscarberg: Enterprise 2.0 – Vision, discipline or toolbox? #e20 http://lnkd.in/8AYamZ
  • oscarberg: RT @axbom: “If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.”- Alan Cooper #uxquotes
  • oscarberg: RT @absolutesubzero: Enterprise 2.0 & Social CRM converge towards Collaborative Enterprise http://bit.ly/a2vwFa #e20 #entarch
  • hebsgaard: What Does Government Transformation Mean, Exactly? #gov20 http://tinyurl.com/2uw9oro <some good points from Gartner’s Andrea DiMaio
  • hebsgaard: John Bell: Simple Measurement Formulas for Social Media #sm http://tinyurl.com/28mlsel
  • jdevoo: RT @jowyang: Need a primer on social media? See this document: http://bit.ly/aujMPB <useful overview of #e20 etc
  • davidcushman: RT @dtapscott: Introducing a new concept, class of software and management challenge.  Collaboration Decision Management.  http://bit.ly/dvgkyA <PDF – eventually is only a sales-pitch, but some good discussion earlier in the paper
  • jdevoo: RT @jmancini77: Great source of social policies — @cboudreaux — Social Media Governance –  http://bit.ly/WDeZO

ITarchitecture and IT themes in general:

  • trevorsnaith: The Open Group: TOGAF 9 Template Artifacts and Deliverable  free download http://bit.ly/a90SqH
  • taotwit: RT @pevansgreenwood: Some new rules for IT http://bit.ly/cYFUOn « Not the first time I’ve seen aePit-crew analogy – new 4 ± 2 spot-on IMO
  • bergmart: Reading Berkeley white paper: Above the cloud. Excellent paper! http://twurl.nl/wbg3f8 <useful clarity, refreshingly hype-free
  • theopengroup: RT @petersq: Serge Thorn’s IT Blog has an interesting take on the relationship between TOGAF and Solution Archs. http://ow.ly/1VOKO ^gb <actually about “Enterprise Architecture vs Enterprise Analysis” – TOGAF is still too IT-oriented to be usable for #entarch on the scale described here
  • nickmalik: One reason it is hard to change software: Software reflects the people who create it, but once it is running, people change to match
  • bartleeten: BOOM — Berkeley Orders of Magnitude — Declarative Languages And Systems #yam http://icio.us/xrtfuf <IT-architecture for very large scale distributed-computing #itarch
  • trevorsnaith: How to Encourage Smarter Use of IT http://lnkd.in/HXnA-9 <nice use of the Knowledge Genes site – see http://www.knowledgegenes.com/home.aspx
  • trevorsnaith: RT @theopengroup: RT @togaftm: Interested in writing a white paper on TOGAF to be in Open Group WP collection? For information see http://ow.ly/1LZ4v ^gb

Society, culture, business social responsibility and other broad social themes:

  • CreatvEmergence: When you expand your view of what it means to be creative, you can discover your role as a creator in the big picture
  • chrisdpotts: RT @abbielundberg: groups seek stability & meaning. once achieved, easier to distort new data by denial, rationalization than change basic assumptions. -Schein
  • jdevoo: The Uncommon Insight of Elinor Ostrom by Ted Bergstrom <pdf> http://bit.ly/d8gysw #econ #nobel #commons <recommend #entarch etc – a Nobel prizewinner who does understand the limitations of the notion of property ‘rights’ in the real world
  • jdevoo: Important terms for tomorrow: satiety and frugality
  • ironick: +1 RT @tberno: Management doesn’t want enlightment, it wants anesthesia…John Fly@ #rethinkdesign
  • craighepburn: would it not make more sense 2 allow #BP & Hayward 2 focus on stopping the oil over the US obsession w/ hearings! They can happen later! <yup. but that involves thinking. something that politicians especially are not exactly good at doing…

And, as always, the magnificent miscellany:

  • CreatvEmergence: RT @johnniemoore: “More important than our ability to predict is our ability to respond.” http://bit.ly/cO0ZF7 <that’s why it’s called ‘response-ability’…
  • jdevoo: Neat timeline service called Preceden http://bit.ly/bWLszg #visualization e.g. cybernetics timeline http://bit.ly/8YUij3
  • kvistgaard: RT @MatthewEGreen: Need to find power  while in an airport…this site can help  http://airpower.jeffsandquist.com/airpower/ – #travel #tip << nice, hope it’ll grow
  • davidriveroll: Drag and drop websites | Web design software – http://bit.ly/bWmi9R Could be nice for those who design but don’t code
  • thoughttrans: I just setup @EzineArticles to tweet my newly published articles: http://Twitter.EzineArticles.com/ #publishing
  • thoughttrans: RT @copyblogger Four Steps to Finding Your Ideal Writing Voice http://bit.ly/9vT2k4 <okay, apply that to finding the ‘enterprise voice’…
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Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, strategy, structure and related business themes:

  • hebsgaard: HBR: The Safety Calculus After BP http://tinyurl.com/27ln5jn <working on org-culture will be key: #entarch #risk #csr
  • CreatvEmergence: Great manifesto on Passionate Creatives by @Jhagel @jseelybrown and @langdavison – http://bit.ly/a7mDmK <an absolutely central theme for whole-enterprise #entarch etc
  • SAlhir: Your Culture is Your Brand @dhbook http://www.deliveringhappinessbook.com <culture etc at Zappos #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • SAlhir: Delivering Happiness (Zappos Culture) Core Values 1: Deliver WOW Through Service // 2: Embrace and Drive Change // 3: Create Fun and A little Weirdness // 4: Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded // 5: Pursue Growth and learn // 6: Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication // 7: Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit // 8: Do more With Less // 9: Be Passionate and Determined // 10: Be Humble // “Many companies have core values, but they don’t really commit to them.” … // … “And by commit, we mean that you’re willing to hire and fire based on them.” // “if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff … will fall into place on its own.” // @dhbook http://www.deliveringhappinessbook.com
  • (via Bob Sutton @work_matters) Stanford d.school ‘Bootleg Bootcamp’ on #designthinking practices http://bit.ly/86sWIt <recommend for #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian: [post] ‘A question of policy’ (on ‘playing nice’ in difficult discussions) http://bit.ly/9Vcsq1 #entarch #innovation
  • business_design: read @sgblank on the quest for intrapreneurship in the enterprise (& my comment) http://bit.ly/a2DDp4
  • davidcushman: A Manifesto for Platform Organisations http://shar.es/mwZVk
  • CreatvEmergence: Creative Difference between Accepting and Agreeing – http://bit.ly/bkrRFS <extend this to #entarch #collaboration
  • business_design: Glad that @sgblank so eloquently writes about some of the thoughts I also have on my mind regarding big corps  & innov: Steve Blank on ‘When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It’ http://bit.ly/dqHL6T
  • business_design: You need to reach the top for business model innovation! RT @vpsingh: Gary Hamel’s pyramid of human capabilities  http://bit.ly/98nN1F #bizarch #entarch
  • toddbiske: to my #entarch friends: if I went to your website looking for guidance, what major classifications of guidance would I see?
  • toddbiske: Continuing on yesterday’s theme, outside of the EA team, who are the primary visitors to your #entarch team’s web site? Do you track this?
  • chrisdpotts: @toddbiske Related question comes to mind.  If your orgn had no EA team, what then would the #entarch website be about?
  • CreatvEmergence: Practices Only = Temporary Creativity. Generative Principles + Practices = Sustainable Creative Culture
  • CreatvEmergence: Emergent “Pay it Forward” Business Model (another brilliant piece by @VenessaMiemis) http://bit.ly/dzejcL <this one will need a lot of thinking about – brilliant work, also read all the comments
  • greblhad: RT @HankMarquis RT @marcireynolds12: “7 Simple Rules for Designing a Process” ITSM blog http://ht.ly/1UMdQ > also #entarch
  • adrianrcampbell: What should the relationships be between #entarch and #bizarch and the CIO? Who should make the decisions?
  • tetradian: Doug McDavid’s ‘Enterprisology’ http://www.enterprisology.com/ – useful resource/views on whole-of-enterprise #entarch #bizarch etc
  • greblhad: It would appear that most twitter discussions on #entarch is not focused on actually moving the field forward, rather defending idéory <seems a bit of an extreme view, but I take the point… :-(
  • CreatvEmergence: We have entered the Age of the Manifesto – they are emerging everywhere. Great to see foundations re-shaped…
  • CreatvEmergence: Improv takes u in2 the Practice of Uncertainty until it becomes habit -> easier to navigate/engage uncertainty in any innovative[innovation] process
  • CreatvEmergence: “Creativity & Improvisation in Jazz & Organizations” by Frank Barrett (1998) http://bit.ly/chRYUb (via @complexified)
  • trevorsnaith: RT @cbcurran CIO Dashboard: 5 Enterprise Architecture Myths Busted http://bit.ly/bYNYpt <5 myths: EA is what IT uses to plan its technology; You can’t measure it; Architects only pontificate, they don’t work; EA doesn’t work with an SDLC; If you subscribe to SOA, you don’t need EA
  • oscarberg: Blogged: There’s no shortcut to the future workplace http://goo.gl/fb/Wvwyi #entarch #bizarch #e20
  • CreatvEmergence: U can’t have a creative org. w/out the domain of the right brain, incl. stories, arts, ritual, improvisation, movement
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @thaler: Theories of Change should be accompanied by Stories of Change! http://bit.ly/anHzvT <also #entarch #bizarch
  • adrianrcampbell: RT @practicingEA: Thinking about the 3 legs of an #entarch practice – Strategy, Governance & Delivery.
  • thoughttrans: Does #bizarch help clarify the cultural roadblocks? <that’s a key part of its role, yes
  • CreatvEmergence: There’s Radical Innovation, Radical Acceptance, Radical Amazement…I’d love to add Radical Aliveness to the mix!
  • CreatvEmergence: There is a difference between polish and coherence in a creative process. <agree – good point…
  • ironick: RT @VenessaMiemis: see Presencing Institute http://bit.ly/cs3B1J #change #sustainability #TheoryU #entarch (eg. Capitalism 3.0) <these are serious business-academics eg. Otto Scharmer, Riane Eisler etc
  • SAlhir: RT @zenext: Playfulness is at the heart of all innovative conversations … New possibilities emerge at the edges of seriousness
  • jdevoo: IBM to open research lab in Brazil with focus on natural resource development and large-scale events http://bit.ly/bnwo4o // Speaking of IBM, Fred Brooks author of The Mythical Man-Month returns with The Design of Design http://amzn.to/9JSe3J
  • Cybersal: RT @bcs Transformation Webinar now live http://bit.ly/aejlEr #bcstransform >> better late than never. Last year would have been better.
  • ChristineArena: Hells yeah: RT @Five Lessons from the BP Oil Disaster http://j.mp/cxZg3A by @greenadvantage <thoughtful, well-argued, and a lot more sensible than the “let’s all weigh in to BP because they’re a foreign company we can blame for everything that’s wrong with the US oil industry…”
  • hebsgaard: Why We (Shouldn’t) Hate HR http://bit.ly/9KoaoE <HBR article on HR and culture #entarch #bizarch
  • hebsgaard: Achieving Balance in Enterprise Risk Management Proves Good for Business http://bit.ly/d1NT5i <use risk to drive #entarch
  • bartleeten: Ecosystem SOA 2 http://j.mp/duhoXO <useful questions by Richard Veryard on sociotechnical systems and SOA
  • taotwit: is awake too early mulling over current project challenges – all political – deep-joy! // … while P-E-C can help shape design patterns the V and the T are required to get buy-in to them – is that your experience? // .. the way some people adopt the use of mind maps for example. But I have suspected for some time now that folk need a few more rail-tracks // … sometimes the PEC messages can get swamped by VT debates between say an EA group and a Change Programme team
  • Cybersal: @taotwit the BCS is now paying the price for failing to tackle VT issues effectively in its Transformation program see #bcstransform tweets
  • oscarberg: Paradox: institutions that think survival is to keep doing what they’re doing will not survive cc: @nimmypal
  • Cybersal: Great article on Lost art of Conceptual Modelling http://bit.ly/d92JKl from @alecsharp #entarch <primarily conceptual data-modelling, but also other types
  • CreatvEmergence: If u like Theory U, Presencing Inst, Integral Theory, Art of Hosting, WIE, etc, check out @h1brian’s Holacracy http://www.holacracy.org/ <consultancy on ‘liberating the soul or organizations’ #entarch
  • tetradian: You need a good ‘can of worms’ to go fishing for change #entarch #bizarch #csr
  • kdierc: RT @bmichelson Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to ship data — http://bit.ly/coTwQJ <<like in fashion, tech returns in waves <also another useful reminder of limitations of IT in #entarch – even for ‘IT’ problems
  • CreatvEmergence: Human-Centered Innovation [slideshare] http://bit.ly/9Arnui <Why Market Researchers & Product Designers Should Be Best Friends
  • ChristineArena: RT @rushkoff Is BP Too Big to Fail? The coming BP Bailout as Corporatism: http://tinyurl.com/2dj8wwq <recommend #entarch #bizarch #csr – “The BP crisis recapitulates the entirety of corporatism in real time, transparently enough for anyone to see. It should be evidence enough for us to break from business as usual, right now. This is not just a disaster, but a golden opportunity as big as 9-11 to leverage new public awareness towards a positive, groundbreaking shift away from corporatism and back toward the creation of real value – away from corporations, and toward people.”
  • kvistgaard: “Using the HDI (Human development index) as a basis for determining the strategic initiatives for improvement.” Ex State level Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) discussion
  • trevorsnaith: TOGAF quick quiz – http://bit.ly/cc3w58 <a simple multiple-choice quiz with misleading questions where the ‘right’ answer turns out to be wrong in real-world practice: sorry, but this is a good example of everything that’s wrong with TOGAF at present…
  • enterprisearchs: RT @HarvardBiz: Use Words, Not Numbers, to Understand Your Customers http://s.hbr.org/aNhed0 <I would have thought this should be obvious to everyone, but apparently it’s not… :-(
  • unorder: A positive approach to change. The story of Jerry Sternin in Vietnam http://is.gd/cMoIt #storyfinder <’find what works; assist ordinary people to spread those ideas/practices themselves; keep out of the way’: perhaps apply the same principles to org-change etc? #entarch #csr
  • tetradian: Janice Molloy: ‘A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Moving from Blame to Action’ http://bit.ly/dAGnCa <at last some sense on #oilspill ..
  • taotwit: Engaging and thought-provoking  instructions for achieving simplicity: http://bit.ly/uWD9z <on Slideshare: useful for #entarch
  • oscarberg: Learning from mistakes = trying to avoid repeating them => we create systems that prevent both doing wrong & doing right // We should not focus on avoiding mistakes. We should focus on how to make the right things in the best way possible // Don’t know how many times I’ve told ppl risk mgmt about enabling value creation (by managing risk), not preventing it (by avoiding risk) // Again: risk mgmt is about enabling value creation (by managing risk), not preventing it (by avoiding risk). Period.
  • tetradian: @oscarberg risk & opportunity are symmetrical-opposites, so risk-mgmt must also be viewed as opportunity-mgmt (and vice-versa)
  • ironick: web will win RT @timoreilly: “Closing the digital frontier: interesting perspective on iphone v web from Atlantic:  http://bit.ly/cIdg5a ” <thoughtful article about ‘resortification’ of cyberspace – recommend

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management and in-person collaboration:

  • unorder: The knowing-doing gap was in play at my mentoring workshop. Folk listed good mentoring behaviours but in role plays old habits remained. // Also some terrific insights from the workshop folk on listening. They found it hard to even speak when they weren’t listened to.
  • DavidGurteen: Seth’s Blog: Six things about deadlines http://bit.ly/aktkIH <all good points, as usual
  • unorder: Anecdote blog: 10 mindsets of a great mentor http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2010/06/10_mindsets_of.html
  • DavidGurteen: Steve Denning: Valuing people – not assets! http://bit.ly/dAIEJY #km <much practical detail – v.strong recommend #bizarch – review of book “Employees First, Customers Second”
  • DavidGurteen: Don’t fall in love with KM :-) http://bit.ly/ay1Vu6 #KM <keep the focus on value to the organisation, not KM for KM’s sake
  • oscarberg: RT @HarvardBiz: What’s Really Silencing Your Employees http://s.hbr.org/8Xqmkz <about the more everyday version of ’speaking up’
  • getstoried: just posted recording of today’s awesome podcast w/ @jerrymichalski, relationship econ – http://bit.ly/abugTV cc’ @MullenAR #newstory #rex
  • tebbo: Is unlearning the new learning? Seems a lot of us are in the business of teaching people to shed their conditioning.
  • CreatvEmergence: When ppl begin 2 engage Creative Self, often the fear nothing’s there protects the deeper fear that EVERYTHING is there <otherwise known literally as ‘panic’
  • unorder: Here is a 10 min animated version of Dan Pink’s book on motivation. Entertaining and interesting http://is.gd/cKF7E
  • unorder: Announcing the Anecdote Story Finder http://is.gd/cKYGm Find stories to include in your business presentations #entarch #km etc
  • oscarberg: Isn’t the combination of passionate individuals and institutions a contradiction in terms? // Or maybe not. Passionate people sooner or later end up in (mental) institutions <ouch… (speaking as a passionate person… :-) )
  • DavidGurteen: Measuring KM successfully: Selecting the right metrics http://bit.ly/99BTHc #KM <simple, practical how-to (same principles also apply to metrics for #entarch)
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @Bizprov :The Micromanager – What Improv Can Teach Bosses About Fear, Planning, and Letting Go – http://ow.ly/1WOnq <another good example of possible intentional use of the Chaotic domain in organisations
  • hebsgaard: Chris Brogan: Stay on Target http://bit.ly/dcDbGR <mind-mapping as high-level alternative to project-mgmt
  • SAlhir: The first degree of connectedness, Communication, involves individuals informing one another. // The second degree of connectedness, Conversation, involves individuals conversing or dialoging with one another. // The third degree of connectedness, Collaboration, involves individuals co-creating together.
  • unorder: A good story (3 min video) about client relationships and recovering from a difficult situation http://is.gd/cMbws <note also that the client was able to use this as a strong learning-opportunity: “the best way to learn something is to teach it”
  • unorder: I love this story that illustrates that good presentation matters http://is.gd/cMcMK I’ve told it many times. <two ways to serve a cake.. a literally tangible example of presentation

Enterprise 2.0, social-media, social-web, user-experience and online-collaboration:

  • BillIves: post from @robpatrob 25,000 IBMers support Luis! Workplace Flex http://bit.ly/djeLyk > great story #bizarch #entarch
  • BillIves: from @eelxer Beyond Serendipity for Enterprise 2.0 http://bit.ly/aLPsB1 > good read
  • oscarberg: Blogged: A (perfect?) business case for Enterprise 2.0 http://bit.ly/90huyb #e20 #AIIM <(note the cultural issues, also the limitations of the CRM system in this case – needs separate E2.0 support)
  • BillIves: Military Taps Social Networking Skills NYT http://nyti.ms/aftPmR <very interesting, very effective, yet who watches the watchers? – where are the supranational checks?
  • joyce_hostyn: Design for behaviour change. Excellent presentation by @stephenanderson http://bit.ly/9jM3zG via @jmspool <also #collaboration #bizarch #entarch
  • oscarberg: RT @elsua: “It’s not about making money and marketing yourself. It’s about sharing ideas, collecting information and connecting with people”
  • business_design: Facts RT @chrisflanagan: Infographic: Food that travels doesn’t necessarily leave larger carbon footprint.  http://bit.ly/cFyHSa <challenging, yet highly relevant for #entarch #bizarch #bmgen etc
  • oscarberg: 1: it’s always culture + technology, can’t have one without the other #e2j // 1: technology supporting an emerging culture of collaboration #e2j  // 1: you can have a culture of collaboration with pen and paper, but not at the scale and reach as with E2.0 technologies #e2j
  • hebsgaard: Q1: the APPLE paradigm – people do not know what they need until they have it – true for E20 also #e2j
  • oscarberg: RT @oscarberg: Q2: At some point top mgmt must commit to e20. But you can start by letting a sub-culture demonstrate value (grass-root adoption) #e2j // Q2: It’s always good to find a business pain (business use case) and build the business case for e20 around that #e2j // Q2: e20 is great for non-routine work & when info needs can’t be anticipated, such as problem-solving, innovation #e2j

IT-architecture and related themes:

  • greblhad: RT @gotze Free e-book: Greening IT: How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society http://greening.it <strong recommend #entarch #itarch #greenit
  • simonbrown: RT @jeffbarr: And here is how AWS Import/Export worked way back in 1956 http://bit.ly/bcPRFO <state-of-the-art datastore, the IBM 305 RAMAC system – given the level of physical complexity, an amazing achievement that they got it to work at all…
  • taotwit: interesting chat with USPS yesterday around their event messaging solution for processing 4 billion per day – “mantra: keep it simple #sbep // USPS intelligent mail barcode system http://bit.ly/bdewjr >> simple business event processing on a grand scale #sbep
  • theopengroup: RT @jamoussou: Thoughts on applying TOGAF to the health enterprise: http://bit.ly/bf7IF7 <still only #itarch, though, not #entarch – doesn’t extend to beyond the IT domain..
  • craighepburn: RT @bonigala: IBM’s Software Could Connect Every Little Gadget to the Net | Fast … http://bit.ly/aob1su <IBM’s Mote Runner for “8bit processors and 64Kb address-spaces” – brings back memories of hacking 6502s for typesetting-systems way back in the late-70s and early-80s… :-)

Society, culture, corporate social responsibility and other ‘big-picture’ themes:

  • hebsgaard: If you screw up, they will trash you. There is no PR fix. http://tinyurl.com/32qvb2d <spend the money on fixing the problem, not on PR – a crucial fact for #bizarch #csr etc – also anticlient theme
  • alphalo: I like Agile Project Management for social justice issues. Dont overplan. Do prototype quickly. Evaluate. Iterate. Emergence will happen.
  • hebsgaard: RT @ClearedJobsNet: Army wants to build a massive virtual world to train soldiers via Nextgov  #Gov20 #military20 http://ow.ly/1VB46 <again, how will this get ‘the video-game generation’ to understand that the real-world is not a video-game? – that there are real ethical issues here that are all too easy to ignore in ‘virtual worlds’?
  • alphalo: I was talking to our town council member this morn about govt as facilitator-how the right facilitation technq brings diffrnt parties togthr // Govt as facilitator means one doesnt have to depend on policies to govern as much. The community self-organizes to solve its own problems // Open collaborations succeed better with better facilitation // The right facilitation technique can help a community come together to self-organize to solve its housing problems // The right facilitation technique can bring a community together to help lessen crime and restore harmony amongst antagonistic parties // Jails & laws are more rigid,less adaptive,less transformative methods of solving problems than communal facilitation and restorative justice
  • ChristineArena: Great Ethical Corp article: The Problem With #CSR Lite http://3bl.me/fzr2g7 #BP <very relevant to #entarch #bizarch – strong recommend
  • BillIves: RT @CommunispaceCEO: BP had no disaster plan, but if other oil companies did, they’d have come forward. So, NONE had plans.> gr8 point <agree: I’m a bit fed up of the obsessive BP-bashing – faults are endemic in the industry, BP is actually one of the best
  • ChristineArena: RT @sparkUp_inc Reading about corporate responsibility in a post-BP Digital Age http://3bl.me/2sax2t #thepromise #csr #sustainability
  • davidcushman: RT @dweinberger: We need a word for events like the #oilspill. Not terrorism, but how about “errorism”?
  • BillIves: RT @rotkapchen: A personal side of the BP slick story http://twurl.nl/qrquqf from @fastcompany <notice that an ordinary-guy’s ‘no complaints’ and ‘I just want to work’ is considered to be ‘not-news’ by blame-obsessed main US media…
  • jdevoo: Deepwater Horizon: from the floating rig down the riser to the bottom, then down the well to the reservoir itself http://is.gd/cMu9n <useful infographic to put the BP problems into perspective – definitely not your everyday engineering problem…
  • alphalo: Relocalization. Retribalization. Back to the body. Back to the earth. 4 things we need to do to get progress back on track.

And the ever-enticing miscellany:

]]> http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/06/26/tweetweek-06jun/feed/ 1 A week in Tweets: 30 May – 5 June 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/06/06/tweetweek-30may/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/06/06/tweetweek-30may/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:23:40 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=1018 It’s been another week, unpleasantly tumultuous in places, but the Tweets go on regardless! :-) So here’s another week’s collection, usual headings, usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture business-architecture and business-strategy in general:

  • oscarberg: Blogged: These are the times for explorers http://goo.gl/fb/ar54L <…and hence also for mapmakers? #entarch #bizarch
  • oscarberg: @tetradian uncertainty forces us to draw the map as we go along, we can’t draw a complete map of the future
  • oscarberg: RT @leeprovoost: Proximity Wormholes: How the Social Web Enables Intimacy at Scale http://bit.ly/c6zy1X < #e20 etc – also how to model this in #entarch?
  • oscarberg: Blogged: Why culture comes first and technology second http://bit.ly/aZ8HHK #e20 #AIIM < #togaf/#entarch also please note?
  • (via @SAlhir) Outspend the competition? or outculture them? Pixar’s edge is its culture http://bit.ly/5NhbLm #entarch #bizarch (2008 article – may be outdated after Disney ‘takeover’ of Pixar)
  • ironick: cool. luv 2 c the deck. RT @eda__c: @ironick I will introduce enterprise-wide Design framework at #irmeac in London http://bit.ly/b5t5lp <one to watch for – looks interesting… #entarch
  • kdierc: RT @MichaelEPorter: ‘Companies can benefit their communities simply by doing more business close to home.’  in BusinessWeek, http://bit.ly/9OceFg <Michael Porter on community as part of business-ecosystem #csr #entarch
  • unorder: RT @DanielPink: Bob Sutton reveals “12 Things Good Bosses Believe”…  http://bit.ly/cuCOdo via HBR.org <recommend #entarch
  • rettema: I like http://thestartuptoolkit.com #BMGEN <very nice online/live extension/adaptation of Business Model Canvas etc #bizarch #entarch
  • ironick: RT @jasecoop: Great bunch of articles @ DottCornwall on #designthinking. Looking fwd to reading them all http://bit.ly/bevVNR
  • CreatvEmergence: Unleashing innovation – Palindromic Queries – http://slidesha.re/bMbEbw – on SlideShare (via @openworld) <odd… not quite sure of the point… interesting, though
  • BeyondEA: New post: Enterprise Architecture as Competitive Differentiator  http://bit.ly/c16FT2
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @getstoried – Four #Storytelling Genres Of Brand Re-Invention http://j.mp/b9PcTq <interesting twists on story-genre – useful examples for #bizarch #entarch etc
  • gkathan: Enterprise Architecture and Zombies http://bit.ly/c0YfeF <amusing twist by @adrianrcampbell on Gartner’s ‘10 #entarch pitfalls’
  • thoughttrans: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Surely not everyone http://bit.ly/dxm0sp <Seth Godin’s ‘linchpin’ theme: good points also for #entarch #bizarch
  • theopengroup: RT @naudine: Enterprise Architecture is not the glue between IT and “The Business”. EA is the glue between Strategy and Execution. ^gb <keyline for a long-running discussion on LinkedIn
  • tetradian: <post> ‘Tackling uniqueness in enterprise-architectures’ http://bit.ly/9b9ciK #entarch #bizarch #csm
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @KedgeForward – @chris23 and @ehooge discussing Emerging Cityscapes on KedgeForward blog – http://bit.ly/bQLUoS < #futures – context for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • ironick: +1 RT @rotkapchen @eda__c We 1st need 2 get IT 2 hire real architects/designers & not tool jockeys. Balance thinking&doing: out of balance.
  • business_design: RT @RosabethKanter: Get invited once on promise. Get invited back because show can contribute. Get important when make whole team look good.
  • jdevoo: RT @whiteafrican: Great post on BP oil spill from the guy behind @BPglobalPR – http://bit.ly/dC3fyq <a textbook example of the role (and impact) of the committed anticlient #entarch
  • oscarberg: RT @EskoKilpi: Work is mostly a badly designed game http://bit.ly/7M3K2J > another great post
  • CreatvEmergence: Practices unleash creativity in a given time. Principles set framework 4 a sustainable creative culture. Both are needed.
  • joyce_hostyn: RT @chuckfrey: The Situationally Aware Business by @steverubel: http://dlvr.it/1RBHh (via @danavan) <trendtracking online with Twitter, Facebook, Google Trends etc
  • craighepburn: RT @ghensel PSFK: Future of #Retail http://bit.ly/aPPL8s #socialbusiness <also #futures for #bizarch #entarch #mobility – 80pg slidedeck by analysts PSFK
  • ironick: RE: @tekrati Thanks for the mention. If anyone wants to see more details, check out the following. My hybrid thinking … http://disq.us/dosel <a more permanent link to Gartner / Nick Gall’s ‘hybrid thinking’ model for #entarch
  • enterprisearchs: RT @alexcullen: How would you sell business architecture to your CEO? #entarch #itf10  http://bit.ly/dlDHwU
  • oscarberg: Why is the future always visualized in either black or white? Why are there no sci-fi movies with lots of colors? <same could also be said of #entarch / #bizarch futures?
  • theopengroup: RT @leodesousa:  Building on ‘The Right Stuff’ http://bit.ly/9en1Dt <on people-skills etc for #entarch

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management and in-person collaboration:

  • unorder: Good questions can be the starting point for good sensemaking. You only know what you know when you hear yourself say it.
  • joyce_hostyn: Forget logic. Use story, conflict, inner journey. Great preso on using storytelling for presentations http://bit.ly/a5iBDu <very good slidedeck on using the ‘hero’s journey’ structure in business-storytelling – strong recommend
  • SAlhir: RT @joankw: The 5 Habits of Employees That Produce Happy Customers http://bit.ly/af8ySy Excellent post by @JohnAssaraf <be customer-centred, don’t assume, be involved, use resources, think long-term
  • thoughttrans: Change This – Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself http://bit.ly/9OVRJJ <useful ‘manifesto’ from Seth Godin – do work that matters: connect, be generous, make art, acknowledge the lizard, ship, fail, learn
  • CreatvEmergence: Turning an “or” into an “and” expands the creative playing field // Emergence happens where the visible and the invisible meet.
  • unorder: A 20 minute podcast on leadership storytelling http://is.gd/czeLN (via anecdote blog) <insightful, practical
  • unorder: Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible by Dan Heath [video] http://is.gd/cA6ZC <useful Fast Company video that explains why change can literally be exhausting
  • CreatvEmergence: Applied Improvisation Network (AIN) – http://appliedimprov.ning.com

Enterprise 2.0, social-media and online-collaboration:

  • oscarberg: Enterprise 2.0 : selling fun to people who  need it but won’t buy it  http://bit.ly/a4uz7l by @bduperrin #e20 <insightful.. – a stealth-approach to the problem of “you come here to work, not play!” response to E2.0
  • hebsgaard: RT @enterprisetwo: #E20 Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – Exploring The Macro Conditions. By Dion Hinchcliffe http://url4.eu/3s6Mx [feb2010]
  • oscarberg: Recent news on document co-authoring from @collabguy http://bit.ly/cqxcnA <useful guidelines for effective collaborative writing (also linked article to ‘the four Ps of effective collaboration: Purpose, People, Process, Place’)
  • oscarberg: E2.0 Power Term: Sharing http://bit.ly/avpVKs by @rotkapchen #e20 <also inverse: the failings of ‘intellectual property’ (an ‘anti-power’ term?)
  • oscarberg: Finally, the #e20 conversation is more about culture. Many good posts on this subject lately. <E2.0 at last starting to understand what ’social’ really means – i.e. whilst it’s ‘not not about the technology’ (McAfee), it’s first and foremost about people
  • oscarberg: RT @dhinchcliffe: Defining Social CRM http://bit.ly/9vo1jm Nice summary by @peterkim #scrm <follow the links… useful stuff
  • oscarberg: A social media strategy is a way for old-school CMO’s to keep social media away from the heart of their marketing strategy // It’s quite common for orgs to have a media strategy -> these orgs also create a social media strategy. Where’s the purpose? // A tool is just a tool, a media is just a media. It’s your purpose that should define how to use them.
  • oscarberg: RT @marsyk: The difference between Collaboration and Social Networking is Discovery. In C you know the people, in SN you’ll discover new ones. #tekesdtp
  • oscarberg: RT @CoreyWebster: Another reason Sales needs Enterprise 2.0: http://fwd4.me/RYh #e20 #storytelling <real story about practical use of in-house #e20
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @VenessaMiemis thanks @gavinkeech for beautiful junto portal design http://www.gavinkeech.com/junto-portal/ <further developments on the #junto social-collaboration project – looks good!
  • oscarberg: It is all about People – which one are you? http://bit.ly/9QMOE8 by @hannskk #e20 #AIIM <8 stereotypic behaviour-types in context of #E2.0

Technical-architectures and IT matters in general:

  • theopengroup: Adventures in Computing: Architecting the Health Enterprise with TOGAF 9 http://ow.ly/1Q8Dg <on takeup of TOGAF in the UK NHS context
  • bartleeten: RT @cebess: HP thinks sensors will lead to TheNextBestThing in computing:  http://bit.ly/bZKYkC #itarch #entarch #innovation
  • jdevoo: RT @little_springs: interaction fragmentation, and avoiding it http://bit.ly/9EaAf4 >> change the look but take it easy on the feel

Society, culture, business social responsibility and related themes:

  • jdevoo: RT @dkorten: The economic hitmen story in 2 minute video. http://bit.ly/a4ldBT <scary, and apparently accurate… ouch…
  • davidcushman: RT @stuartwitts: Loving this new tee from @threadless :: “Apathy, Our Country’s Leading Cause of Whatever” http://tinyurl.com/39klgh2 <yeah, right…
  • getstoried: The Transparent Economy – big global #csr report by @volans published,  I’m a contrib author  – http://bit.ly/aUsaVQ #storytelling
  • alphalo: hoping to inspire social activists at the us social forum to use the open collaboration model of organizing www.pioneerimprints.com <follow the links to the ‘Encyclopaedia’, including online ‘freemium’ version
  • alphalo: The extent to which we are in our bodies (somatically aware) affects our perception and our cognitive abilities // Different economic systems results in different body postures, diff. musculature holding patterns, diff. neural firing patterns. // Center for transformative change essay on social justice and somatics http://bit.ly/bDhDjw // Our degree of embodiment affects our neural patterns. Hence our degree of embodiment affects cognition. // If descartes was embodied when he said ” I think therefore I am” his sense of am-ness would have been much greater // With the same cultural, economic, political system two different groups will evolve differently depending on how embodied they are.
  • oscarberg: My best ideas that I use at work are born outside of office hours. Who owns these ideas? <key #fail of ‘possession-economy’
  • oscarberg: With social media people have tools that can serve as evidence that they got an idea outside of work before they used it at work // Here’s my idea: if my ideas are free & available for anyone to use, noone can own them -> I can use them as well for whatever purpose // Organizations are obsessed with owning ideas & knowledge // Enterprises should focus on becoming the best environments for ideas to be born, grow and successfully be brought to the market // RT @tdebaillon: “Claiming to own an idea is a political matter, a will to stay in control-and-command logic” // RT @EskoKilpi: “attribution is the new ownership” #ideas

And the magnificent miscellany:

  • jdevoo: Mind the gap @tetradian RT @jennifertribe: Jaw-dropping photo. RT @gizmodo: The Gates of Hell Just Opened In Guatemala http://bit.ly/9tDESN <yikes… a vast (and lethal) sinkhole in the middle of a city street following a huge (1m+ rainfall) tropical-storm
  • CreatvEmergence: Yet another shout-out for improv – Psychology Today article: Why Improv Is the Best Sex – http://bit.ly/d9FhPt <okay, now translate that into a business context…? :-)
  • CreatvEmergence: Simple Whole Brain Dimensions Dominance chart – how do you think? http://bit.ly/bP1JGD <useful summary/questionnaire (note: may need to click on column to left of text to display the table)
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @time The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind – TIME http://bit.ly/c7SN9s <interview with psychologist R Keith Sawyer on science and practice of creative processes
]]> http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/06/06/tweetweek-30may/feed/ 0 A week in Tweets: 23-29 May 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/05/30/tweetweek-23may/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/05/30/tweetweek-23may/#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 06:10:15 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=990 Another public-holiday long-weekend in Britain, hence it’s (of course?) even more than usually cold, windy, grey, damp and dull. So you may as well stay in and wander through another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, perhaps? Usual categories, usual ‘Read more…’ link, anyway.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and other ‘big-picture’ business themes:

  • CreatvEmergence: Video: Tim Brown of IDEO – shift from consumers to participants: http://youtu.be/VTyvnLQUP1c?a (via @technoshaman) <brief (1 min) but valuable for #bizarch #entarch
  • (via @iyigun) ‘Open Enterprise Manifesto’ http://bit.ly/aUuDqp <interesting but (IMO) flawed attempt to rethink key business themes #entarch
  • iyigun: <post> Open Architecture Manifesto from BetterMeans http://goo.gl/qWIU <useful critique of Open Enterprise Manifesto #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Honored to be mentioned, Maya! RT @enigmaya – Play. Adapt. Create. – http://bit.ly/acuZk2 <good development/expansion of Michelle’s work on paralleling improv-theatre and business – PR, in this case
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @wanderingalan: check out this article….Imagination Trumps Knowledge – http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2010/05/22/imagination-trumps-knowledge/ <useful crosslink to the ‘business-anarchist’ theme
  • smbounds: The boundary of culture is when “we” becomes “they” <(not sure I agree in detail, but is a good place to start)
  • smbounds: @tetradian> “a culture” rather than “culture” is prob more accurate.  Fluid m/ship of multiple nested or overlapping cultures is the norm
  • jdevoo: Transition Nelson: transition culture catches on http://bit.ly/d86FG9 <good example of Transition Town movement #entarch
  • adrianrcampbell: Should the IS/IT tail wag the EA dog? http://wp.me/p1p9N-1C <some useful questions on #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: There is a difference between middle way (compromise) and ‘third way’ (emergent) // I use “3rd way” 2 mean the emergence in co-creating, whole greater than sum of parts, transcending & including ‘mine vs. yours’ into something new <v.important in #entarch #bizarch etc
  • Cybersal: RT @PG_Rule Did Taiichi Ohno really say ‘do not codify processes’? What was Ohno’s attitude to tools..? http://amplify.com/u/6cwv <detailed set of quotes from Ohno’s book, summarising the concept of ‘autonomation’ – describing a production-line in terms of an autonomic nervous system, using the best blend of machine-based and people-based decision-making #entarch #opsarch
  • ChristineArena: Why every biz needs a chief inspired protagonist [podcast] http://bit.ly/cqSovX via @tobiaswebb76 >great interview! #csr
  • SAlhir: We are always in a state/transition of becoming. Forgetting this leads to resisting change. <same is true for orgs #entarch
  • thoughttrans: RT @SirKenRobinson My new TED talk “Bring on the learning revolution” http://tinyurl.com/24qxfl4 <applies to orgs too #entarch – strong recommend
  • SAlhir: Arrogant to think we can create the future, we can only shape it as it unfolds, and we are only able to do so because we are a part of it. <definitely applies to #entarch #bizarch etc
  • toddbiske: RT @mikerollings: Blog post re Make EA disappear… Contextualize to the decisions and the people who make them  http://blogs.gartner.com/mike-rollings #entarch
  • ProfilingPro: Quote: “A culture of accountability makes a good organization great and a great organization unstoppable.” Carol Morrison <where #csr meets #entarch
  • bartleeten: RT @breadedcod: RT @wilm: Want to model organisation and engage people about it? Open Source #archi tool 0.9 is out now: http://bit.ly/9FkR4H #archimate #ea <looks good – though note the name-clash with the former Archi that underlies the properietary EA toolsets Agilense and Promis
  • 5Di: RT @ch9 Talking Architects with Richard Veryard http://ch9.ms/BP6P <video [21mins] on org.intelligence vs org.stupidity #entarch
  • thefullkernick: 14 principles for (scientific) innovation. Relevance for enterprise architecture, business design? http://bit.ly/crQ118 <comments on the ‘Big Potatoes’ manifesto
  • tetradian: (via @thefullkernick) ‘Big Potatoes: London Manifesto for Innovation’ http://www.bigpotatoes.org/ <interesting, yet oddly riddled with a kind of ‘we know what’s best for you’ arrogance…?
  • smbounds: RT @Metaphorage: Thought provoking: The Future of Knowledge Work: http://bit.ly/cTBttY Via: @PARCinc #km #entarch #futurist <v.useful scenario-study by Xerox PARC
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian Rather than moving ‘beyond-EA’ we’re seeing the end of ‘before-EA’ (in which we’ve found out what EA isn’t).
  • kdierc: RT @estephen: real value of Enterprise Architecture not making better architectures..it’s in making better enterprises” #quote Gary Doucet,
  • hebsgaard: Building a Culture of Innovation From the Inside Out http://tinyurl.com/3xdbgm7 <detailed worked-examples at US healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente
  • chrisdpotts: Forget about business-IT alignment. Focus on a strategy of convergence instead. http://bit.ly/dhSjm9 via @MartijnVeldkamp #CIO <some very good examples (though note that this does not mean that IT runs the business, or that the business exists for IT’s benefit alone!!!)
  • chrisdpotts: To converge IT decision-making with the wider business, first divide “IT” into its business competencies http://bit.ly/dDu3PG #CIO
  • chrisdpotts: Integrate (converge, fuse, etc) IT with the business?  It already is, but are you? http://bit.ly/dDu3PG
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian How to make IT-related decisions integral to the wider business is a design theme in the enterprise’s architecture #entarch
  • davidcushman: FasterFuture Zappos Tony on the importance of happiness: Tony Hsieh is a legend among the twitterati. He’s built a… http://bit.ly/crXdid <v.important for #entarch – work-life integration, culture as the core of the organisation
  • rettema: How do you monetize free? http://bit.ly/cOaO2i #BMGEN
  • bergmart: Trying to finalize set of EA and business architecture definitions knowing they are never final <the age-old #entarch dilemma! :-)
  • adrianrcampbell: Interesting article ‘Is there really an #entarch market?’ at http://tinyurl.com/335bb7g good to see Gartner plans to revamp EA quadrant
  • getstoried: RT @m_mas: RT brandchannelhub: Troubled Brands Should Learn From Domino’s. Agree? http://bit.ly/d2JMI1 <for #bizarch also
  • hebsgaard: Engaging Citizens A Key Theme For Governments http://tinyurl.com/3xok6w3 <bizarrely, this is actually little more than a pitch for a software package – the classic ’solution before requirements’, or ‘here’s our solution, how can we force your problem to fit it?’
  • Bonifer: Eight Empty Arguments:  http://bit.ly/cpABxh #gamechangers <v.strong recommend #entarch #bizarch #e20 #collaboration – also includes good examples of how to use improvisation concepts and storytelling-analysis in a business context
  • joyce_hostyn: to find opportunities to delight, look for moments of anxiety http://bit.ly/c7rQ1c #ux #cx <a useful slidedeck on user-experience design – how would we apply this to #entarch #bizarch?

Some assorted discussion around Gartner’s ‘hybrid thinking’ model:

  • ironick: Gartner’s inaugural note on hybrid thinking, free 4 limited time: http://bit.ly/aPYzup // Gartner’s hybrid thinking keynote too! http://bit.ly/9t77dF [50mins video] Hope the #designthinking community tolerates my meager ppt skills. #GartnerEA <seems to be what we would call #entarch?
  • (via @ironick)Fast Company: Dev Patnaik: ‘Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking’ http://bit.ly/16yzEP <useful original source-document for Gartner’s ‘new’ Hybrid Thinking
  • Cybersal: @ironick just viewed the replay of yr talk on HT/Human-centricity – couldn’t see any humans on your slides, though.  ;-)
  • ironick: @Cybersal agree there should be more people on slides, but there are some, eg 2nd slide has members of congress.
  • Cybersal: @ironick oh yes, of course. Being an architectural type, my attention was drawn to the building on the same slide.
  • (via @ironick) US Army: ‘Art of Design v2′ [PDF, 337pp] http://www.cgsc.edu/events/sams/ArtofDesign_v2.pdf #designthinking #bizarch <one of the key sources for Gartner’s ‘hybrid thinking’
  • tetradian: <post> ‘Hybrid-thinking, enterprise architecture and the US Army’ http://bit.ly/bxXd1g #entarch #gartner

A discussion on so-called ‘roadmaps for change’ in architectures:

  • chrisdpotts: A crucial feature of any roadmap is that there is more than one road. #entarch
  • richardveryard: @chrisdpotts roadmap may have more than one (long-and-winding) road, but only one map. map is not territory. #entarch
  • chrisdpotts: @kdierc There may be many roadmaps representing the same roads differently. (Also railways, and flight paths).  Plus satellite images. // Like any good roadmap, one for EA will consist mainly of routes that already exist rather than have yet to be constructed  #entarch
  • thoughttrans: @chrisdpotts EA will consist mainly of routes that already exist. <<a good #entarch #bizarch help find/build new roads or clean up roadblocks
  • nickmalik: The word “Roadmap,” often used in Enterprise Arch discussions, is a terrible metaphor.  Assumes one driver on an empty road. #entarch
  • thoughttrans: @tetradian @nickmalik on roadmap metaphor: road directions maybe…roadmap shows different trails #entarch #bizarch

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management and in-person collaboration:

  • tebbo: Nick Milton @nickknoco proves that human memory is frail enough to be dangerous: “http://www.nickmilton.com/2010/05/forgetting-curve.html” #km
  • CreatvEmergence: Partnering w/my creative source feels like a flowing dance when I’m immersed in the connection & like a tightrope walk when I feel disconnected <agree: a really good description of the difference between those two spaces
  • DavidGurteen: Dave Pollard’s blog How to save the world: ‘The Hard Part is Finding People Who Care’ http://bit.ly/9GPw4J
  • unorder: Copying behaviours (memes) triggers innovation and learning. Real life and stories serve as the source material.
  • SAlhir: Degrees of Connectedness (Communication, Conversation, & Collaboration): Journey+Trajectory+Encounter+Proximity http://wp.me/pohx0-cf
  • basvg: RT @jackielauer Great call with client. Reminds me that Leaders that blame are whiners with authority. Real leaders take responsibility.
  • getstoried: RT @andyhoek: 5 laws of making a literary story complicated without creating an ungodly mess http://bit.ly/aYXSPC #storytelling <great discussion of the role of theme (vs plot or character) in story, using mainly SF examples, but applicable also to enterprise-as-story in #entarch
  • oscarberg: RT @SameerPatel: The changing nature of the employees in the forthcoming Organization 2.0 era http://ow.ly/1PIg2 > good stuff by @GautamGhosh
  • DavidGurteen: Seth Godin’s Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything http://bit.ly/d13HS4 // The number of people you need to ask for permission keeps going down: // 1. Go, make something happen. // 2. Do work you’re proud of. // 3. Treat people with respect. // 4. Make big promises and keep them. // 5. Ship it out the door. // When in doubt, see #1.
  • unorder: Just wrote this post about listening, mentoring and storytelling http://bit.ly/92mLSZ #km #collaboration
  • CreatvEmergence: New ways of engaging -> new ways of thinking -> new ways of doing -> new unfoldings
  • CreatvEmergence: Yes! Orgs need to organize 4 tapping creative capacity: http://bit.ly/a2BOe3 – HBR article – via @ariegoldshlager @bhc3 <creating space for an workforce that’s creative overall – not just a special class of ‘creative leaders’

Shawn Callahan (@unorder) started a good thread around ‘engines of serendipity’ via the hashtag #thepowerofpull (applies to #km #entarch etc):

  • unorder: Twitter is my serendipity engine. #thepowerofpull <likewise – yet also focussed by selection of people to follow #km
  • unorder: @jhagel one way we increase our surfaces at Anecdote is via our newsletter. Lots of serendipitous encounters result. // The ANU library used to have shelves for new books ordered by date of arrival. Another serindipity engine #thepowerofpull @jhagel
  • CreatvEmergence: Saul Kaplan: 10 Take Aways from “The Power of Pull” – http://shar.es/mjhu6

‘Enterprise 2.0’, social-media and other themes around on-line collaboration:

  • jdevoo: Dynamic social network analysis: the importance of viewing changes across time http://on.ted.com/8L0i <TED video: Nicholas Christakis, ‘The Hidden Influence of Social Networks’, primarily influence on health
  • davidcushman: FasterFuture Slides and interview from Social Media In Business: I presented at Social Media In Business at the eB… http://bit.ly/9eSmW8
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @brainpicker: If you missed it :: The Creators Project – new platform for evolving our conception of what “artist” really means http://is.gd/cnyzs
  • oscarberg: Comparing Collaboration and Social Networks http://bit.ly/ck41ha /via @hebsgaard @bduperrin
  • joyce_hostyn: beyond usability->iPad about designing emotional experiences @fred_beecher via @usablelearning http://j.mp/awhiFO
  • hebsgaard: Similarities and Differences between Open Source and Enterprise 2.0. #e20 http://tinyurl.com/398xlkb <thought-provoking piece by Gil Yehuda
  • oscarberg: RT @johnt Enterprise 2.0: Harmonising formal processes & ad-hoc work http://bit.ly/dwLZlM <v.useful compilation #entarch

Technical-architectures of various kinds:

  • bartleeten: Scalability, Availability & Stability Patterns #yam http://icio.us/yislvo <slidedeck: exhaustive [197 slides] yet clear summary of trade-offs for IT-architectures

Society, culture, corporate social responsibility and related themes:

  • tetradian: <post> ‘MQ-8: Let Freedom Reign’ (’Mythquake’ series) http://bit.ly/bW0eGC #culture #society #change
  • tetradian: <post> ‘MQ-9: Possession’ (‘Mythquake’ series) http://bit.ly/byROtY #society #culture #change
  • CreatvEmergence: Evolution and Creativity – WSJ.com – http://on.wsj.com/9769PX – via @Jhagel
  • alphalo: How does your needs for approval affect your ability to access your own power // Imagine if u had no need for approval of any kind, what would you do, how would you go about doing it? // Visualise having no need for approval, is there any shift in your body’s sensations, esp. around the 3rd chakra? <interesting insights from Alpha’s work on somatic-economics
  • joyce_hostyn RT @VenessaMiemis: lol, love it. “The Outlaw Catalog of Cagey Optimism” http://bit.ly/b18Lzj <implications for #entarch #bizarch? :-) <brilliant ‘anti-DSM’ – a catalogue of optimistic rather than pathological mental-states and conditions

And, of course, the not-to-be-missed none-of-the-above non-category:

  • tebbo: My future plan is to help others grow their own skills and support them through the tough bits. The draft plan is here: http://bit.ly/bNGTeE <one of the great writers and journalists of the British IT-industry and related industries
  • bartleeten: A Tour through the Visualization Zoo – ACM Queue http://j.mp/a3e6mN <great exploration of different models/techniques
  • chrisdpotts: On the plane to Amsterdam I sat next to an opera singer, a baritone. Among other things we compared notes on performing before an audience. <useful skills for business-strategy consultants :-)
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @tim_hurson: When something really looks weird, you may be truly seeing it for the first time. Often knowing blocks seeing.
  • jdevoo: RT @frescosecco: «Find a way or make one» If you’re in media, keep an eye on http://sourcefabric.org/ <Free, open source and multilingual content management system for news websites
  • davidcushman: @karllong: RT @kevinmarks: In honour of #towelday, do read Douglas Adams prescient 1999 essay ‘How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet’ http://bit.ly/DA <brilliant – of course
  • hebsgaard: Nitro PDF Launches Free PDF Reader and PDF Creator http://tinyurl.com/2wa9wsn
  • hebsgaard: 17 Examples of Great Presentation Design http://tinyurl.com/2wacpz5
  • DavidGurteen: I just backed up my tweets because Twitter only shows the most recent ones. You should backup yours here http://backupmytweets.com
  • davidriveroll: RT @paulocoelho: Sometimes, certain of God’s blessings arrive by shattering all the windows <very true…
  • getstoried: RT @longformorg: What fragmented reading experiences do to neural circuitry http://bit.ly/bLuHpV (by Nicolas Carr, @Wired) #longform (via @StevenWalling) <interesting… scary…
]]> http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/05/30/tweetweek-23may/feed/ 0 A week in Tweets: 16-22 May 2010 http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/05/23/tweetweek-16may/ http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/05/23/tweetweek-16may/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 17:50:46 +0000 Tom G http://weblog.tomgraves.org/?p=958 It’s that time of week again: another collection of Tweets and links. Usual categories (with a couple of extras this time), and the usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and related businessy matters:

  • aojensen: http://bit.ly/9b1g4T < N. Malik: Doing Business without EA is like building a chain of “open” links. #entarch
  • SystemsWiki: 200+ models in free/open SystemsWiki Model Library, including Casual Loop, Stock & Flow and Simulation Models http://sn.im/v3aa0 <useful systems-theory resource, though more for hard-systems than soft-systems?
  • oscarberg: On quality: “Pare down to the essence but don’t remove the poetry” by @tomfishburne via @j4ngis http://bit.ly/99cqIW #entarch
  • alphalo: my thoughts on somatic economics http://bit.ly/b4jXOQ where somatic means relating to the body <org-diagnostics for #entarch?
  • business_design: Managing as Designing: Multiple models in architecture, prototyping, lessons for business http://bit.ly/brSFRS #bizarch <discussion with Frank Gehry & Partners – part of an excellent series of videos from one of the US business-schools – strong recommend
  • Cybersal: “Did we actually even think today?” @rtolido Interviewed by The Fifth Conference about Slow IT http://bit.ly/aCJ0Li #entarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Of course! :-) Fast Company Article: Most Important Leadership Quality is Creativity -  http://bit.ly/adAIvu <IBM survey of CEOs – relevant read for #entarch #bizarch etc
  • bartleeten: Simon Sinek: Start with why << great talk http://icio.us/ks1eyu <why (we do what we do) leads to how (we do what we do) leads to what (we do)
  • CreatvEmergence: You could not ask for a better co-creative partner than the Unknown: always giving, infinitely creative, just waiting to dance…
  • jdevoo: RT @johnthackara: What’s the difference between a vision and a plan? This is an excellent piece about Resilience Action Plans: http://tiny.cc/3uhre <also applies to #entarch etc
  • hebsgaard: The ‘Once-only’ tolerance principle for mistakes. http://tinyurl.com/23zygez <another great Nick Milton piece #km #entarch
  • business_design: Worked with @thinksmith on creating #BMGENx concept/content so you can run your own business model workshops w/material we supply… <a ‘Watch This Space’ item – BMGen (Business Model Generation) is one of the most useful tools currently available for #bizarch
  • unorder: RT @SirKenRobinson: I don’t think of the arts as subjects. or of any “subjects” as subjects.  It puts the focus too much on content not on process. // Disciplines is a better idea. Suggests process, concepts, techniques. Dance is a set of disciplines, so is math. #artsed <applies to architectures too #entarch #bizarch #itarch
  • business_design: We’re going to do the same w/ a Business Model Toolkit RT @sniukas: Panera invites customers to pay what they want http://ow.ly/1O1mG #NYT <highly relevant for #bizarch and #entarch – also gift-economy model shows that the money/possession-economics model is not always the best way to go?
  • rotkapchen: 3 things you’d not expect together: Enterprise Architecture, Design Thinking, Gartner [YouTube 2:11] http://twurl.nl/qnb4jc // Sudden sightings of ‘intellect’ at Gartner seem to correlate directly w/Burton purchase :)
  • davidcushman: @peggyanne: RT @Squace: The importance of the mobile phone to developing countries –  Conversations for a Better World http://ow.ly/1Odj0 <breaking West-centric assumptions about the internet etc #entarch #bizarch #itarch
  • CreatvEmergence: Huge qualitative difference between pre-journey simplicity and post-journey simplicity…
  • CreatvEmergence: RT @trueslant – 10 Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About – Brainspin – http://bit.ly/7gtPPC < #bizarch etc
  • business_design: Nice contrarian view/research from #Wharton: How Group Dynamics May Be Killing Innovation: http://bit.ly/9ZD1vc (hat tip to Eric Shreurs) <describes useful ‘hybrid’ alternative to simple brainstorming-techniques
  • SAlhir: Happiness Framework: Three Types of Happiness: Pleasure, Passion, and Higher Purpose @dhbook @zappos http://is.gd/ckrOz <points to website for Martin Seligman, Univ Pennsylvania, with v.useful set of questionnaires on emotion, engagement, meaning and life-satisfaction in both personal-context and work-context
  • SAlhir: What is a futurist? http://is.gd/ckxJ0 < (is a useful overview, though a bit short on follow-up links)
  • thoughttrans: @tetradian what is a futurist? Lately…anyone that can think beyond the next stockholder meeting!

A discussion arising from a previous thread of mine on the idea that “the enterprise is a story”:

  • tetradian: <post> ‘If the enterprise is a story, what is its backstory?’ http://bit.ly/bpP25p #entarch #culture
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian To be an enterprise is a journey, on which there are many stories.
  • tetradian: @chrisdpotts agreed – yet the journey itself is driven by a deeper story (the enterprise ‘vision’ etc), and it’s that story that I’m aiming at here
  • flowchainsensei: @tetradian Fallacy. Most journeys are drive by the core group(s) agenda. cf Art Kleiner.
  • tetradian: @flowchainsensei why fallacy? “the core group’s agenda” *is* a story, surely? // point is that “the core group’s agenda” is less likely to be a viable story long-term than enterprise-vision etc
  • flowchainsensei: @tetradian Oh, yes. But the (enterprise’s) avowed vision rarely if ever aligns with these (generally hidden) agenda(s).
  • tetradian: @flowchainsensei yup, for ‘organisation as enterprise’ – which is why vision needs to be drawn from extended-enterprise, not organisation
  • flowchainsensei: @tetradian Depends on how you’re using the term “viable” :}
  • tetradian: @flowchainsensei ‘viable’ as long-term effective: efficient, reliable, elegant, appropriate, integrated. Predatory profit ain’t viable long-term :-)
  • flowchainsensei: @tetradian Agreed. Although precious little hope of that :{
  • tedtradian: @flowchainsensei “oh ye of little faith…” :-) Actually, I have done this in some orgs – it’s doable, and it does work
  • flowchainsensei: @tetradian Ah. Core group(s) agenda(s) generally more viable (long-lived, powerful, pervasive) than the attribs you cite. :{
  • kvistgaard: @tetradian @chrisdpotts Oh that’s nice. May be you two should write #entarch fables the way I see how good you are with metaphors.
  • tetradian: @kvistgaard try @greblhad http://enklare.wordpress.com/ – he really *does* write ‘#entarch fables’ :-)
  • kvistgaard: Which reminds me of this nice speech ‘Metaphorically speaking’, by James Geary at TED – http://bit.ly/9319dm
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian Stories (plural) about the journey ahead are different from ones about the journey so far. Scenarios vs memories // Best stories about the future (scenarios) are those written as if they are memories (i.e. in the past-tense) <useful technique known as ‘future-backwards’
  • chrisdpotts: @tetradian Not quite ‘future backwards’: each scenario is an outcome (in ‘present’ or ‘past’), with its story still told ‘forwards’
  • systhink: @tetradian Just read yr enterprise story-backstory after 2 am baby btl. Excellent wk! & Dramatica-ZIFA link v pwrful. Thx @flowchainsensei

Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management and in-person collaboration:

  • unorder: New post on Origins by Terrence Gargiulo (@makingstories) Stories, Manipulation and Truthfulness http://bit.ly/abzg5W < #storytelling in business
  • (via @unorder) HBR: Spreading Critical Behaviors ‘Virally’ (organisational change) http://bit.ly/bLWBOP <informal vs formal training – e.g. ‘anecdote circles’ etc
  • CreatvEmergence: 10 Core Assumptions for the Creative Workplace (on my blog) – http://bit.ly/a6AaDH <nicely put – useful
  • unorder: An excellent post on storytelling by @victoriaward http://j.mp/dlp4yp #originsstory
  • oscarberg: Blogged: What every manager (and parent) should know http://goo.gl/fb/7MFTr <great summary of Daniel Pink’s book ‘Drive’
  • joyce_hostyn: interesting video that visually explains intrinsic motivation http://bit.ly/a69mhT #vizthink <#bizarch #entarch – references work by Dan Pink (Drive) and Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational)
  • thoughttrans: Brilliant! RT @sniukas 23 Reasons Why Nothing Happens After a Brainstorming Session http://ow.ly/1O4xv
  • SAlhir: The Keys to Lasting Change http://is.gd/ckqQ6 <useful quick overview of Stephen Covey’s ‘7 Habits’ model

Social-media, ‘enterprise 2.0’ and on-line collaboration:

  • oscarberg: RT @cecildijoux: New Blog post #Hypertextual. Enterprise 2.0 : less control and more leadership. http://wp.me/p58hh-GW <agree
  • CreatvEmergence: Great points by @alphalo: Emergent online community building: “What I Learned from @VenessaMiemis” http://bit.ly/90unqr <applies also to #e20 #collaboration #narrative etc
  • oscarberg: Eventually, Enterprise 2.0 will simply be called Enterprise Collaboration // #e20 extends collaboration beyond teams, orgs & locations, enabling seamless collaboration within the enterprise <and should not assume any technology beyond the fact of contact between real people

IT-architecture, IT-systems and IT matters in general:

  • gleganza: ‘Future of EA’ blog by Jeff Scott http://ow.ly/1M1xR Love to hear your ideas. #EAfuture <my response? “this is IT, not EA..” – no grasp at all that EA scope extends far beyond IT – Forrester should be able to do better than this… :-(
  • theopengroup: RT @xwarzee: 10 Key Skills Architects Must Have to Deliver Value by Mike Rosen – http://bit.ly/ae7CpX <long, and yet another standard IT-architecture-pretending-to-be-enterprise-architecture, but otherwise a useful list: inquire, integrate, analyze, conceptualize, abstract, visualize, formalize, communicate, enable, assist
  • rtolido: “so what do you do for a living?”. Well, this: an introduction to Capgemini’s Application Lifecycle Services http://bit.ly/c27SgS <very good example of practical IT-architecture

Society, culture, business-social-responsibility and related matters:

  • BillIves: RT @GautamGhosh: The Power of “Nonsexual Touching” By Women http://goo.gl/xsX7 > resonates with my experience <interesting business-oriented study about literally ‘being in contact’ – touch by women has positive impact, touch by men makes little difference [may be culture-specific]
  • greggvm: Great article by @getstoried! “(Lessons in Cultural Storytelling) The Looking Glass: Banksy & Mr. Brainwash” http://j.mp/aNshG4
  • CreatvEmergence: Purpose is the unifying principle in a creative emergence. <and also in enterprise-architectures #entarch
  • tetradian: <post> ‘MQ-7: Sugar And Spice’ (’Mythquake’ series) http://bit.ly/bNueYa #society #culture #change
  • alphalo: how do u align money with purpose, heart, community and spirit? // Can you make a lot of money whilst at the same time be helping to show people that money is an illusion? // Can you make a lot of money whilst helping humanity transition to a gift economy? <more to the point, can you make a living at all whilst doing so? – that’s the real dilemma here…
  • CreatvEmergence: The Empathic Civilisation http://youtu.be/l7AWnfFRc7g – Great visual presentation! We’re soft wired 4 connection (via @SheriHerndon) <from the RSA:animate series – visual description of a live presentation at the RSA in London

A culture-oriented thread on power and the like, that started from a question by Alpha Lo:

  • alphalo: the new male : what is beyond the macho jerk and the new age wimp? // how to be soft and gentle whilst standing in one’s full on power?
  • tetradian: @alphalo: “the new male … how to be soft and gentle whilst standing in one’s full on power?” – please beware of sexism here? // functional power: “power is the ability to do work” (where ‘work’ may be physical, mental, emotional, relational, spiritual etc) // dysfunctional ‘power’: “power is the ability to _avoid_ work” – the delusion that power may be ‘taken’ from others // abuse: any attempt to offload responsibility onto the Other w/o consent (also lose/win variant: take on responsibility w/o consent) // violence: any attempt to prop self up by putting Other down (also lose/win variant: prop Other up by putting self down) // in my experience, the non-violent non-abusive female is even rarer than the non-violent non-abusive male… :-(
  • tetradian: @alphalo re how the same power-issues play out in the business-context, see ‘Manifesto’ at http://bit.ly/aet8a #entarch #bizarch
  • tetradian:  @alphalo most current (Western) feminism still urges women to become violent and/or abusive, in the mistaken belief that this is ‘power’ // most social, political and business models are still based on the delusion that violence and/or abuse is ‘power’ // finding our way past all of those mistaken models and mistaken concepts of power is the key problem we face right now
  • alphalo: how do u relate your primal animalistic power to your trancendent states: by suppressing, selectively applying, transmuting, or integrating?
  • alphalo: @tetradian what is your new model for what power looks like?
  • tetradian: @alphalo: “what is your new model for what power looks like?” – ans: “power is the ability to do work” – a) what is the work to be done? b) what are the ‘response-abilities’ needed to do that work? c) who has those responsibilities? how to create those abilities? d) how are those responsibilities shared around the respective context? (e.g. “from each according to their ability” etc) // none of this is hard once we recognise that power is the ability to *do* work, not the ability to avoid it!
  • alphalo: how do u relate your raw primal sexual nature with your transcendent states: by suppressing, selectively allowing, transmuting, or integrating?
  • tetradian: @alphalo: “how do u relate your raw primal sexual nature with your transcendent states?” at my age? – mostly by forgetting! :-)
  • CreatvEmergence: @alphalo by yes-anding, transcending and including…
  • Veranderkunst: @tetradian Power is (not a theoretical choice:) the ability to *do* work BUT just as often (plain reality:) to *not do* work.
  • tetradian: @Veranderkunst depends what’s meant by ‘work’: in that specific case, the _decision_ to not-do work is itself the work that needs to be done // ‘ability to do work’ is physics defn of ‘work’ – but in human context ‘work’ takes many forms: physical mental emotional etc
  • Veranderkunst: @tetradian I was rather refering to the power of *sabotage*, either conscious or subconscious. Huge force …
  • tetradian: “I was rather refering to the power of *sabotage*” – ie. expression of ‘the ability to *avoid* work’ – ie. exactly what power *isn’t*

And the munificent miscellany:

  • thinksmith: Loving ‘The Economist’s “Thinking spaces”  > http://is.gd/ccQak – Thanks Eleni!!! <has been around for a while now, but always good to explore – the physical spaces various (mostly well-known) Economist readers go to do their thinking
  • davidcushman: RT @CEyres: This is hilarious! RT @prgeek @The_MediaBlog: PHOTO: You HAVE to love the US media’s grasp of geography: http://bit.ly/aXqBSH <this has to go down as a real classic example of ’spot the deliberate mistake’? :-)
  • taotwit: trying out http://www.4shared.com/ for free large file sharing <seems to be a larger version of DropBox (10Gb vs DropBox’s 3Gb), but public rather than private – worth checking-out?
  • Cybersal: Really nice animated extracts from some excellent talks at the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce here  http://bit.ly/aw5NTX <includes summaries of talks by Daniel Pink, Jeremy Rifkin and others
  • CreatvEmergence: Guilloche Pattern Generator – awesome!  http://bit.ly/afBYPH <kind of like an extreme online Spirograph – fun! :-)
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