• davegray: “Strategy is design.” Agree or disagree? Why?

What followed was, for me, one of the best back-and-forth Twitter-conversations in recent weeks:

• nickmalik: @davegray design is a method.  Strategy is a result.  Fair to say good strategy may result from design, or luck, or intuition
• tetradian: @nickmalik @davegray would say that strategy tends to (or should?) come before design – or that they interweave with each other
• oscarberg: Strategy (what & why) primarily requires knowledge, tactics (how, when) primarily requires skill.
• davegray: @tetradian @nickmalik IMO a strategy is not a result. Profits, growth, revenue, etc. are results. A strategy is an approach. // hard for me to see how good strategy can be the result of luck. To me, it can’t be a strategy if it’s not intentional.
• mikerollings: @davegray @nickmalik @tetradian strategy must influence and be influenced by execution – you must be open to learning from happy accidents
• tetradian: @mikerollings @davegray @nickmalik “strategy must influence / be influenced by exec”n – open to learn from happy accidents” >strong agree
• davegray: @mikerollings 100% agree. @nickmalik @tetradian
• nickmalik: @davegray each step in a process produces a result.  The strategic dev step produces strategy as a result.  That step may use design, or not
• davegray: @nickmalik sure, strategy is a result of a strategic dev process, like a plan is the result of a planning process. cc @tetradian
• davegray: @tetradian @nickmalik it seems to me that design and strategy are both methods or approaches, ie, means to an end, with significant overlap.
• davegray: @tetradian @mikerollings @nickmalik 140-character limit constraining. Will write a post & try to make my point more coherently
• tetradian: @davegray @nickmalik in my exp., strategy sets out the intent, design is more about realising the intent (but also feeds back into strategy)
• ruthmalan: @tetradian @davegray @nickmalik Agreed Tom — you’ve better phrased my (playful) reply to Dave yesterday. Also consider: emergence vs intent
• davegray: @ruthmalan @tetradian @nickmalik I think this may be one of those times when words get in the way of meaning
• ruthmalan: @davegray [ @tetradian @nickmalik ]    or the lack of words? Can strategy, like meaning, be emergent? Or is it strictly intentional?
• davegray: @ruthmalan @tetradian @nickmalik strategy can intentionally create opportunities 4 emergence. Also unintentionally, but that’s not strategy // IMO a good strategy in uncertain environment preserves optionality & is ready to pivot quickly
• nickmalik: @tetradian two places where “design thinking” is used: developing strategy and implementing it. Which are we discussing?
• tetradian: @nickmalik design-thinking is used in both strategy and implementation; most of design-doing happens only in execution
• johnt: @davegray @tetradian From strategic planning to purpose and resilience http://bit.ly/vfJxaj >strong agree #entarch
• ArtBourbon: @davegray  @ruthmalan @tetradian @nickmalik looks like I missed a good discussion (strategy, intent, emergence etc)
• davegray: @mikerollings @tetradian I forget who said this: luck is when opportunity meets preparedness
• tetradian: @davegray @mikerollings “who said: luck is when opportunity meets preparedness” – Pasteur: see ch.3 and appdx in ‘The Art of Scientific Investigation’ http://bit.ly/7U1vgy
• mikerollings: @davegray @tetradian #nickmalik “Luck, Serendipity, and the Contextual Strategist” #entarch http://bit.ly/utJWnT >strong agree
• davegray: @mikerollings @tetradian I think context is part of it. Also important is a set of values/principles that guide decisions within the context
• tetradian: RT @davegray: @mikerollings “Also important is a set of values/principles that guide decisions within the context” >v.strong agree #entarch
• ruthmalan: @tetradian – thanks for ptr to The Art of Scientific Investigation – glad you shared it with Dave/Mike and we who follow y’all
• tetradian: @ruthmalan – glad you liked ‘Art of Scientific Investigation’ – one of my all-time favorite books! (eg. see end-summary chap. on Reason)
• ruthmalan: @tetradian There I was enjoying the Serendipity of the chapter on Chance Indeed, that end-chp summary on Reason is wonderful! Thx again!
• mikerollings: @davegray @tetradian values & principles are part of context, and there is no notion of the context setters & the consumer. We all do it.
• davegray: @mikerollings now you have lost me. Is there anything that isn’t part of the context? @tetradian
• mikerollings: @davegray Context=shared undrstndng within which we co-create. So there is context & doing. Some doing creates context w/ others @tetradian
• davegray: @mikerollings so our decisions & actions should be guided by shared understanding. Am I missing something important? @tetradian

As can be seen from the links above, the conversation triggered at least two excellent additional posts:

• John Tropea, ‘From strategic planning to purpose and resilience’ (mostly a long quote from Dave Pollard, but also a long list of pointers to other related articles)
• Mike Rollings, ‘Luck, Serendipity and the Contextual Strategist‘

My own view? I’d say they’re somewhat different: closely related, but somewhat orthogonal to each other. Strategy ‘is’ design in the sense of design-as-intent, but not in the more common sense of design-for-implementation. In that latter sense, strategy is an input into the design-process. Yet in a way strategy can also be in part an output from the design-process – especially when eliciting strategy for detail-layer changes. So yeah, it’s kinda complicated…

Am I giving up? No, not at all.

Am I actually leaving the entire enterprise-architecture domain? Nope. (Sorry to disappoint a few folks there, but you’ll just have to put up with that. )

So what exactly am I doing, then?

All I’m doing here, metaphorically speaking, is that I’m moving along the road a bit: a few metaphoric houses up the road, if you like. Similar sort of work to what I’ve always done, in many ways, but a much bigger picture this time. A much bigger picture. I’m not going to be looking (much) at the ‘enterprise’-architecture of some small bits of detail-level IT any more: I’ll be looking at the ‘enterprise-architecture’ of the whole darn planet…

Arrogant sucker, ain’t I?

In a way, yeah, of course it is, to say something like that. But if you look around on this blog and elsewhere, in effect that’s what I’ve already been doing, for years. All that’s really different now is that I’m making it a bit more explicit.

And to be blunt, looking around a bit, it really does feel as if I’m one of the few people anywhere who has a freakin’ clue about what’s really going on out there (answer: an MQ-9 mythquake [kind of like a worldwide Richter-9 earthquake, only worse]), what chance we have to stop it (answer: none at all), what won’t work (answer: just about everything we might think of as ‘normal’ or ‘business-as-usual’), and what might work (very-tentative-suggested-answer: something on the lines of a responsibility-based service-oriented enterprise model for a global economics, with systematic eradication of any concept of possession – including all concept of ‘rights’ – and total restructure of every possible aspect of politics at every level. In other words, just a few minor changes here and there… ). Seems like there might be a real need, then, for someone with my kind of background in futures, social-dynamics, skills-development, creativity, complexity, innovation, sensemaking and strategy, across a whole swathe of different companies, climates, cultures and continents. Oh, and there’s also enterprise-architectures, of course: reckon that might possibly be useful, too.

Yes: a real big need for that.

Kind of a big anti-want for it, though.

A very big anti-want.

Oh well.

But no problem, really. Do I think I can make a living out of it? Nope, of course not: I’m not that crazy. But I’m not making any kind of viable living out of enterprise-architecture, either, so what’s the difference? As long as I can pay my way somehow in this increasingly-insane ‘economic system’, that’s all I’ll need. And given that I’ve survived somehow for all these years, without ever having suffered the indignity of being a so-called ‘permanent’ employee, I reckon I’ll manage to keep going for a while yet. Somehow. Doesn’t really matter that I don’t know how: the way things are going, pretty soon no concept of a ‘plan’ is going to make sense any more, so perhaps I’m just getting in early to beat the rush?

Yeah, sure it’s lonely at times: I don’t have any real support at all, no family, no partner since literally decades ago, and at my age pretty unlikely ever again. Good: it means that there’s no-one else to get hurt on my behalf if I screw things up.

Sure it’s scary, desperately insecure: I don’t even have a home of my own any more. Good: nothing particularly to lose, then; nothing of that kind that can be used as leverage against me. And I can just up-sticks and go anywhere that I’m needed. Easy. (In principle, anyway… )

I’m useless at organising anything, events, stuff like that. Good: instead of desperately pretending that I can do everything myself, let other people do that stuff instead – they’re much better at it than I’ve ever been or ever will be. Just do my part of the work, and let others get on with theirs. Simple. (Interesting challenges on trust, of course… )

Turn every obstacle into an opportunity. Live this stuff that I’ve been talking about: rather than ‘making a living’, much better to go for ‘making a life’.

Crazy? Sure. Of course it is: never said it wasn’t. But then I come out of a family-background with a long anarchist-style tradition (of the more constructive if occasionally-quixotic Quaker variety, rather than the brainless bomb-throwing kind), and it’s about time I put those principles into real-world practice. Time to give something back – especially as, at age 60, I probably don’t have that many years left in which to do so. That fact matters, a lot. It also brings its own rather interesting sense of urgency…

So what does all this mean, in plain, ordinary, everyday terms?

Various things I won’t be doing:

1. I won’t do any more work here on detail-layer analysis of IT-oriented ‘enterprise’-architecture such as TOGAF or Archimate (unless anyone specifically asks me for an opinion or whatever).
2. I won’t be presenting myself for any more contract-work as an ‘enterprise-architect’. (I’ll still be available to do spot-work commercial consultancy or training for most types of EA, in just about any industry that isn’t finance, banking or insurance – but I will expect to get paid for that, every time.)
3. I won’t offer any more ‘free’ advice on enterprise-architecture or whatever to people who can darn well afford to pay for it. (I’ll still be more than happy to help anyone in any other way – especially any of the upcoming ‘new generation’ of enterprise-architects.)
4. I probably won’t be going to any more ‘enterprise’-architecture conferences, not least because I won’t be able to afford it (unless someone pays at least my expenses, of course).
5. I won’t pander any more to people who to me seem arrogant, bullying, unwilling to think, and otherwise acting in an asinine or irresponsible manner (and yes, there’s been a lot of them I’ve put up with way too often over the past few years…)

Various things I will be doing:

1. I will be doing a lot more research and exploration on ‘big-picture’ themes, developing new types of tools and techniques to tackle those issues in a much more constructive way than as at present; and working with others to develop new toolsets and training-materials for these needs. (It’d be nice if someone else paid for some of that work, but being realistic I wouldn’t expect it, unless anyone else that I’m working with is getting paid for it too.)
2. I will be doing various types of consultancy-work with non-profits, citizen-groups and other organisations that are reaching towards a more constructive world. (Again, it’d be nice if I got paid to do some of that, but I’d only expect it from commercial organisations or government bodies, who should be able to afford to subsidise some of that other work at least.)
3. I will show the EA community and others how to apply those ideas, tools and techniques, within the conventional business context, such as with Enterprise Canvas and the like. (It would likewise be nice if sometimes people would at least offer to pay some of my expenses for doing this, but I do acknowledge that there are too many of us already in this same boat that I am with regard to ‘real-EA’.)
4. I probably will be going to a wide variety of conferences and other gatherings on broader-scope societal-change topics. (As ever, the real limit here will be my probable near-nonexistent income: so if you really want me at your gathering, please do find some way to subsidise my travel-expenses at least.)
5. Much of my work and writing will be a lot more ‘political’ and challenging for a lot more folks: in which case, sorry, but that’s just too bad, because none of us can afford to tolerate outright irresponsibility and abuse any more. (I am very clear about what is and is not abuse in the social context, by the way: see the ‘manifesto‘ on that, from my book Power and Response-ability.)

So that’s it: getting down to work in a different garden – a garden that’s a rather better fit, than that of current mainstream ‘enterprise’-architecture, for this admittedly somewhat-strange kind of toad.

Comments / suggestions / requests, anyone?

My mother tells the story of the first house she and my father lived in, some small place way up in the north of England somewhere, back when my elder brother was still a babe-in-arms. The garden they’d inherited there was an overgrown tangle, and they didn’t have much of a clue about gardening, but it seemed a friendly sort of place. It even had its own toad, hiding in the humid dankness underneath a sprawl of strawberry-creepers that had crept in from under the fence from next-door.

It didn’t take long to see why the toad was there. Next-door’s garden was regimented, ordered, everything under control, just so. And all a bit sad, because nothing was thriving there. Beneath all that would-be perfection, the strawberry-patch was a mess of slugs and snails, stunting all the growth; what few fruit were left were all tiny. Yet over on my parents’ side of the fence, those same plants were producing a lush spread of abundant greenery, enough strawberries to keep a grocery going all on its own – and one very happy toad, who’d made very sure that there was not a single slug to be seen.

My mother realised what was happening in the next-door garden, and even offered to send ‘their’ toad over there. But the neighbour was adamant that she wasn’t having “that disgusting creature” in her perfect space: no way! And continued to fret over the fact that her once-imagined idyll was indeed dying…

Hence interesting that I’ve been writing about ‘the toad in the road‘, because I guess that’s what I am myself right now, in this garden we call ‘enterprise architecture’. A toad in the road: right idea, wrong place. Right idea for somewhere, I’d hope. But wrong place for here-and-now. Oh well.

Yeah, enterprise-architecture. You know, this could be a really nice garden? Especially if you got rid of most of this mess of concrete, and let those tired plants in their cracked concrete tubs get their roots down into the dirt at last. Plenty of potential and all that: to get the water flowing again, you might have to take a stick of dynamite to that ugly-looking paddling-pool that the last lot of kids built for themselves, over in the corner called ‘IT-centrism‘, but hey, it’s all here. Why not do it?

You’d wondered where all the wildlife went, but can’t you see there’s not much that can thrive in this kind of desert? A few bugs and wood-lice and a lizard or two, perhaps, but that’s about it. If you want it to work, perhaps plant a few things that can actually grow here: get a bit of shade going an’ all that. There’s a few plants of my own that might grow well here too, if given a halfway-decent chance: the Enterprise Canvas, perhaps, or that notation-agnostic metamodel; or maybe even a bunch of ideas about value-trees, about the service-oriented enterprise and the structure of management – kinda strange-looking at first, I know, but they really do work in this kind of climate. Only a suggestion, of course: it’s your garden, after all.

I’ll have to admit, though, that this isn’t really my kind of place that you’ve got here. Partly my fault, perhaps: I do know I’m kind of an Outsider – always have been, I guess – though I really have tried, I promise you. It’s just I really can’t cope with all the broken-down bits of machinery parked all over the place, and the possessiveness that still pervades everything: they do kinda get in the way all the time. And a bit too grey, too cold, too lifeless: too corporate, I suppose you could say? I’m gettin’ old, I s’pose: I need somewhere that’s a bit more comfortable with having real people around the place, a bit more aware of the anarchic nature of, well, nature itself? I guess I could do with a bit more of the bigger picture, too: and I don’t mind all those mythquakes that we can see coming down the road a ways, though I know they do worry some other folks a lot.

I’ll still be around, of course: if you need me, you know where to find me. And I’m always happy to drop by in your garden – especially if you find a way to bring it more back to life again.

But yeah, I gotta face the facts: this kind of ‘enterprise’-architecture garden ain’t no place for the likes o’ me – and out here at present I’m just another toad in the road.

So it’s “goodbye and thanks for all the slugs”, I guess? – because it seems like it’s time for this old toad to be a-movin’ on.

Enterprise-architecture, business architecture and that kind of stuff:

• practicingEA: At an engagement yesterday client kept using the word ‘enterprise’ 2 mean big company IT…hmmm. Not what #entarch means. >too right, Brian: real feeling of “oh no not again”… ::sigh::
• practicingEA: RT @eaStrategy: James McGovern: Is your HR department an impediment to Enterprise Innovation? http://dlvr.it/ntjfR #entarch
• practicingEA: Has it occurred to anyone else that ‘innovation process’ may be an oxymoron? Standardize through process what must begin w/ culture
• thoughttrans: RT @gkathan: @HarvardBiz Video: Managing Values Across Cultures http://s.hbr.org/r70Huk <empathy and listening as foundation #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: A Radical Shift Toward Design by @Digitaltonto: http://bit.ly/q47GlP via @timkastelle #bmgen #entarch
• practicingEA: By @frankdiana: A framework for #Digital strategy must align #Social, #Mobile, #Analytic and traditional channel efforts: http://wp.me/p17Oju-7Q #bizarch #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @FastCompany Using “Soft” Innovations To Create Amazing Customer Experiences http://bit.ly/oqdYtq Great read by @methodguy @adam_lowry #bmgen #entarch
• chrisdpotts: RT @simplicableanna: Live Your EA Dream — It’s hard to complain about EA as a career because it’s very flexible. http://bit.ly/n9l6jF #entarch
• jonhusband: Deep foresight .. “Beyond The Information Revolution” .. by Peter Drucker, Oct. 1999 .. http://bit.ly/cWRMVG
• thoughttrans: Does ur sales & marketing teams define the company biz model the same way? Or is it a challenge 4 the #entarch to get agreement?
• chrisdpotts: Great post! #CIO #entarch | RT @dhinchcliffe: New Post: The “Big Five” IT trends of the next half decade http://ow.ly/6LdLi >useful #futures exercise – though re-interpret in terms of ‘backbone vs edge’
• chrisdpotts: CIO Magazine vs Gartner, on “CIO versus CFO” http://bit.ly/nVJLMP #CIO #CFO #CEO >might suggest those ‘big-analyst’ surveys are all but useless?
• taotwit: RT @enectoux: Enterprise Architect is the glue not the guru http://bit.ly/oD7Ort #entarch +1 Good to see others with a similar message >good intro to John Wu’s ‘Light EA’
• gkathan: RT @ebuise: Interesting SlideShare presentation : Next Generation Enterprise Architecture by Richard Veryard http://slidesha.re/nbPmnk #entarch via @enectoux
• toddbiske: RT @dougnewdick: Post: Avoiding the Standard Metaphors for Enterprise Architecture  http://bit.ly/prHJoY #entarch cc @simplicableanna @toddbiske
• gkathan: RT @DropMind Visualizing Values, Beliefs and Memories http://bit.ly/p1VUBk via @IQmatrix #mindmapping #visualthinking >> #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @fmheir: Cloud gives business the power to bypass their CIO: is this good or bad? http://goo.gl/P7F1Y #entarch
• taotwit: VPEC-T’ing my website for @thoughttrans http://post.ly/3Szab >practical use of #entarch for own consult-biz
• gkathan: RT @patrickpijl: 5 tips on how to visualize your business model (canvas) #bmgen via @erikvdpluijm http://bit.ly/q1Oayh (at http://businessmodelsinc.com/ )
• SAlhir: RT @richardharmer: Purposeful Leadership http://ow.ly/6MnSO < Also Purposeful Enterprise http://bit.ly/RUJYu and Meaningfully-Purposeful Enterprise http://bit.ly/cpMvQ5 >large-scope #entarch etc
• vernaallee: RT @maryadamsICA: RT @ballard_ip: Wise managers know their biz is more intangible than tangible. Assess your fundamentals: http://goo.gl/bLx83 >useful questions here #entarch
• DavidGurteen: The future of work is to freelance within an organisation http://bit.ly/pjHY0z >v.strong recommend #entarch
• toddbiske: RT @datachick: Why You Need An Enterprise Architect Before You Need A Project Manager http://zite.to/q2SvuN < Love Project Taxonomy >using an enterprise-taxonomy to clarify project-impact #entarch
• tetradian: [post] Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture http://bit.ly/oBoSie #entarch #economics #sustainability
• tetradian: [post] Simpler version of ‘EA-governance thought-experiment’ http://bit.ly/pfUvFN #entarch #economics #sustainability
• tetradian: [post] One more try… http://bit.ly/oSXAVQ #entarch #futures #economics #sustainability
• davidcushman: Ryanair must get over themselves. Their customers don’t ‘choose’ to fly with them. Genuine alternatives rarely exist. #ripefordisruption >rapidly becoming one of the most hated players in the airline industry…
• gkathan: RT @enectoux http://ow.ly/6Mw4y #entarch <theory without practice is useless – practice without theory is blind
• gkathan: RT @HugoR: Rethinking Design Thinking [PDF] http://bit.ly/nWSUku #innovation #designthinking #servicedesign
• 5Di: X ,Y and XY – and eight roles of EA http://bit.ly/rttEXe #entarch #EA >nice taxonomy / overview by @taotwit
• adrianrcampbell: #EntArch mantra by @enectoux  http://bit.ly/opMtnI >neat mind-map of 22-point checklist
• gkathan: RT @RikNemanick: RT @HarvardBiz – Interesting rethinking of corporate value assumptions: http://s.hbr.org/pVqONy #leadership #strategy >looks good on paper, but see views from disgruntled scientists in the Comments section… mismatch b/w theory and practice?
• gkathan: RT @yoemprendo: Design Thinking…the video http://bit.ly/mTF37W #emprendedor #visualthinking [1hr video-presentation by Tim Brown (IDEO) at MIT-Sloan]
• EAatWork: Combine #BMGEN and #Archimate 2.0 motivation extension to identify stakeholders http://tinyurl.com/eaatwork-ME-BMGEN #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @KnowledgeBishop: In an age of incivility, customers thirst for courtesy. #custserv >incivility creates anti-clients #entarch
• unorder: You can learn a lot from story based theme park rides. They boil story elements to the minimum. Normality, trouble, resolution. #bizstory
• DavidGurteen: The Future of Work Is Now http://bit.ly/pvXq6N /like @elsua I am living that life >strong recommend #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: Rethinking Creativity and Innovation – Slideshare : http://slidesha.re/qpRDC6 >useful for #entarch etc
• BillIves: RT @darwineco: The enterprise opportunity of Big Data: Closing the “clue gap” http://zd.net/r6QEBn >useful overview #entarch
• business_design: Yeah RT @thestartupdaily: Vision Cannot be Outsourced #startups  http://bit.ly/nReOVM >core in #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @the99percent: More efficient doesn’t always mean more productive. On slowing down & prioritizing the old-fashioned way http://cot.ag/g4irbf
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: Kipling’s six servants, sketched when thinking about why conceptual architecture sketchnote by @ruthmalan http://twitpic.com/6w67qf #entarch
• taotwit: @BPMForReal: The Seven Deadly Sins of Business Process Management (BPM) http://bit.ly/odMm6m #bpm #entarch
• chrisdpotts: “So, you want to talk to me about #bizarch. Let’s start with how you feel about business.” #bizarch (likewise, #entarch, #ITarch, etc)
• chrisdpotts: “The end of the nanny state of IT”.  @TheEconomist on consumer technology and the workplace. http://ow.ly/6QzF4 #CIO #entarch #strategy
• SAlhir: RT @bhc3 The new productivity stack: connect, consume, collect, contribute, communicate, convene, collaborate @EllenLevy #sis11 #entarch #bpm #collab
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia Change focus – Hidden needs of invisible people in innovation http://bit.ly/pf7zhX >depth in #bmgen #entarch etc
• gkathan: RT @OndrejGalik: Is experience an obstacle to “can do” attitude? http://bit.ly/n5fJHa #entarch #consult
• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: An example of Next Generation #entarch ? Certainly a lot more engaging than the usual text & diagrams stuff http://bit.ly/qBzUgi >it’s still text-and-graphics – but yes, the infographic format is a lot more interesting than most ‘student guides’
• gkathan: #entarch as value delivery network – OMG is approaching with VDML Value Delivery Model Language [97pg PDF] http://bit.ly/preNKI
• gkathan: RT @business901: RT @tampereSI: Here’s a fine special issue on #ServiceDesign http://j.mp/4sEDgk #entarch #bpm
• gkathan: customer service experience #story with jeff the cabbie – http://bit.ly/pADyWd #cmo #servicedesign #entarch #bizstory
• SAlhir: RT @flowchainsensei: “possibility to create value collaboratively because of ‘shared meaning and purpose’” http://bit.ly/nKOzsX #entarch #bizarch #bmgen
• tetradian: [post] A human view of Simple, Complicated and Complex http://bit.ly/n2qni2 #entarch (thx @rightfuture)
• SAlhir: RT @jukkaam 37 best freemium links. – Freemium Blog http://lnkd.in/pVKUAh RT @paidioreilly #businessmode #bmgen #strategy
• taotwit: By @dougnewdick: Why Bother With Concepts? http://wp.me/p1kIJV-7O /via @wordpressdotcom #entarch
• business_design: RT @bill_fischer: Charles Eames 1972 interview. As good a description of Design Thinking as you’ll find! http://is.gd/AZjjv3 #imd_mit
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia #DesignThinking. Simplicity and the pleasure of performing http://bit.ly/dRWkjp >for #bmgen #innovation etc
• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: Information Use in Conceptual Design: Existing Taxonomies and New Approaches http://bit.ly/nWsJKB via @ruthmalan #entarch >an interesting read, includes some useful how-to
• JosvanOosten: Scaling-up Social Impact by Giving Away Value? We’re Open to that Idea http://dlvr.it/pvVVg >great example of how bypassing possession and the ‘intellectual property’ farrago speeds things up immensely #bmgen #entarch

Another discussion about the vexed topic of enterprise-architecture and ‘the Cloud’:

• 5Di: Delloite: #entarch Does the Cloud make EA irrelevant? http://goo.gl/Ot5rY – one of many similar voices >oh gawd, not again… this is all #itarch not #entarch..
• chrisdpotts: Deloitte confuses #entarch with #ITarch. Shame. | RT @5Di: Delloite: Does the Cloud make EA irrelevant? http://goo.gl/Ot5rY // You’d expect something called “Corn Flakes” to be flakes made of corn. “Enterprise Architecture”, same principle. #entarch #CIO
• kvistgaard: RT @chrisdpotts: Deloitte confuses #entarch with #ITarch. Shame. | RT  http://goo.gl/Ot5rY <- Who doesn’t when even TOGAF does?
• chrisdpotts: @kvistgaard The Open Group is an IT standards consortium. How it values #entarch is very different from eg enterprise execs. #CIO
• ArtBourbon: @tetradian re Deloitte: Cloud and EA – that’s up there with “does a fish make a bicycle irrelevant?”.
• gkathan: RT @5Di Delloite: #entarch Does the Cloud make EA irrelevant? http://goo.gl/Ot5rY – one of many similar voices > wiha ) consltnt #fail
• jcithinker: @tetradian Delloitte/Cloud/EA I think the question should be “Does actual EA make Delloitte irrelevant?” #entarch

And another discussion on enterprise-architecture and Cloud:

• aojensen: As phk of FreeBSD says: #cloud is no different to the IBM mainframe. // It puzzles me why so many people put #entarch and # cloud in the same tweet. The former is a mgmt function, the latter a tech concern. // In other words, #cloud is a solution pattern and delivery mechanism. #entarch is about systemic management of all of the enterprise. // Thus, #cloud architect is nothing but a fancy word for solution architect. // Okay, rant over. #entarch
• tetradian: @aojensen: “puzzles me why .. people put #entarch and #cloud in same tweet” – is valid if about enterprise strategy or strategy-to-tactics
• aojensen: @tetradian true, but then it is still a delivery mechanism realising a certain strategic/emergent intent.
• tetradian: @aojensen for viable biz-strategy, #cloud needs #entarch much more than entarch needs cloud – cloud can be biz-lethal without proper entarch
• dougnewdick: @tetradian @aojensen couldn’t agree with Tom more – whether you are talking EITA or “proper ” EA
• tetradian: [post] Enterprise-architecture and the cloud http://bit.ly/qBSHqO #entarch #cloud (thx @aojensen @dougnewdick)

Assorted stuff about people and their in-person interactions in the workplace:

• oscarberg: The power of conversations: 1. They bring people closer // 2. They put data into context // 3. They keep activities together and make work flow // 4. They connect people & information // 5. They create new information & insights // Supporting open conversations, in any direction, is only feasible way to avoid siloed orgs #collab #GoodToTalk #entarch
• KMskunkworks: Do we know how to design and manage an open knowledge system? http://wp.me/pUfyy-b6 #km
• SAlhir: RT @storiedstrategy intellectually&culturally opposed to manipulation of individuals for organisational purposes. #complexity #leadership
• DavidGurteen: Why Being Irrational Is Important http://bit.ly/qNUkeZ #KM #collab #creativity #innovation
• BillIves: Valuing Those Who Tell You the Bitter Truth http://nyti.ms/pxL7SU >great interview w CEO of Stetson: generalism as a skill, challenges of self-honesty etc – strong recommend #entarch
• toddbiske: RT @skemsley: Org Charts and Architecture Management – same problems for managing specialized COEs such as BPM http://j.mp/q8p5i2
• CreatvEmergence: “I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing” ~Francis Ford Coppola via @jhagel >must admit that right now I’m really glad to hear that…
• SAlhir: RT @ddrrnt: Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Alchemy of Fear – http://bit.ly/nIxBb2
• SAlhir: RT @LeadToday: Before you quit remember why you started. >another point I need to remember at the moment…
• vernaallee: RT @timkastelle: Excellent post by @jabaldaia Organizational behavior on #Innovation http://bit.ly/qv7sHw
• DavidGurteen: Harold Jarche: “the truth is utterly concealed” http://bit.ly/qyBprF #collab #orgarch #sustainability
• SAlhir: RT @MarkOOakes: Innovation & comfort don’t coexist. By definition, Innovation creates uncertainty. Hence, Innovators embrace discomfort >however, discomfort does not in itself cause innovation – beware of false-logic here?
• unorder: RT @mschenkau: Anecdote: Using social norms to change behaviour http://bit.ly/p9JlDj >apply to adoption for #e20 #bpm #entarch etc?
• business_design: Excellent! RT @fieltnotes: @business_design You will like this too: Why We Sketch http://bit.ly/ayRilE #bmgen >useful overview of visual-notetaking etc
• simonbrown: Interesting discussion RT @TotherAlistair: Nice and thoughtful comments posted to Last Responsible Moment Reconsidered http://a.cockburn.us/3227. >applies to all forms of #decisionmaking – in #entarch and elsewhere
• gkathan: RT @IQmatrix: Here is a Visual Thinking Metaphor that will help you clarify your goals — http://ow.ly/6Qh5D #visualthinking
• SAlhir: RT @EskoKilpi: Human interaction cannot be understood as predictive processes but as patterns http://bit.ly/fF59CU #entarch #collab

All manner of stuff about collaboration online:

• DavidGurteen: Publicness and Real Love by @euan http://bit.ly/p7tN6B #collab #socbiz #socmedia #society
• oscarberg: Culture Challenges and Adoption with Collaboration http://flpbd.it/7axK by @collabguy #e20 #socbiz #collab
• craighepburn: Great social site recommendation by @dtapscott http://www.tigweb.org/ [Taking IT Global] largest online community of youth interested in global positive change
• craighepburn: Connected networks = social production = self organization which is driving the worlds revolutions &cultural shifts quicker than ever before
• thoughttrans: RT @jeffjarvis: Do you think Aetna cares that so many hate it so much? Doubt it. That’s its business plan. Hassle=profit. http://j.mp/l36Ue9 >’Aetna Hate’ website: good example of social-media as mutual-support network for clients transitioning to anti-clients… #entarch
• getstoried: +1 RT @karlaarcher: Don’t be afraid to tell your story. It’s yours for a reason >> http://goo.gl/fb/XvxVs #blogging #storytelling via @creding >applies to #bizstory too

The usual spread of IT-related stuff:

• practicingEA: #Forrester Communities: Preparing for 2011 release of top trends for EA to watch. Preview http://bit.ly/oOlObg #entarch #itarch
• BillIves: RT @dhinchcliffe: The Next Generation Enterprise Platform http://ow.ly/6LhjG by @mfauscette >is about #itarch not #entarch (of course?), but relevant anyway
• basvg: new post in TOGAF-series: Figuring out the baseline architecture and target architecture. http://j.mp/rs47x2 or http://j.mp/pNJAOO #entarch #itarch #TOGAF
• practicingEA: RT @fauzanmohd: EA: Zachman weighs in on cloud’s effect on enterprise architecture: John Zachman created the Zachman Framework m… http://bit.ly/oW74Ae >good points on #cloud / #itarch and, eventually, #entarch too
• davidsprott: Mission impossible? Or how to achieve the SOA vision. http://tinyurl.com/6h6ub3u #itarch #entarch
• davidsprott: SOA Reboot – How to Use a Business-Focused Approach in #SOA Design and Governance http://tinyurl.com/68hgjmf #itarch
• greefhorst: KPI’s for Enterprise Architecture: http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi/functional-areas/information-technology/enterprise-architecture/pag2.html >useful resource, if more for #itarch than #entarch
• tetradian: (via @empiricator) InfoQ on IBM’s Service-Oriented Enterprise http://bit.ly/qgFBZe >yet more IT-centric  ‘ #entarch ‘: yawn..
• chrisdpotts: #ITarch – your highest priority: the principles for creating great architecture with consumer IT & tactics for making sure they’re applied. >dunno about ‘highest priority’, but important for most current contexts, yes

Stuff about the societal big-picture:

• BillIves: RT @dhinchcliffe: How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?: http://nyti.ms/niEduo future belongs to those who co-create it #bizarch #economics #society
• gkathan: culture = language, beliefs, values and norms, custom roles, knowledge, and skills which combine to make up the way of life of any society >applies to orgs/enterprises as much as to nations etc
• SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto We Won. They Lost. Right? http://bit.ly/mRo8Uc >nicely ironic meta-analogy… #society #culture #economics #orgarch
• SAlhir: RT @CoCreatr values, valuation, valuta, #futureofmoney [new post]: If money itself becomes the commodity http://bit.ly/oauC2L #futureofwork >sigh… yet more attempts to apply tissue band-aids to an inherently broken and inherently non-functional system…
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia Integrative thinking and the misuse of power http://bit.ly/epCV52 #society
• oscarberg: RT @LOLGOP: It’s official. More people have been arrested for protesting Wall Street than for crashing our economy. >in such a dysfunctional model of the ‘economy’, is anyone surprised at this…?
• SAlhir: RT @the99percent Settle in for Sunday reading… The Michael Lewis World Tour of Economic Collapse: http://cot.ag/oHUelq >series of articles in Vanity Fair:Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany, California #economics #society
• SAlhir: RT @sapinker Compassion Fatigue – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/qv4iUO >key issue for responsibility-based cultures #society #entarch #economics
• SAlhir: RT @umairh @cate_long: “Truth is, there are no real lines dividing Wall St & Main St & Washington” http://wapo.st/cPScM1 by @moorehn
• chrisdpotts: Macroeconomic #entarch:  world economy will grow from people’s Enterprise, individually & structurally, in exploiting Capital (all forms).
• CreatvEmergence: Co-creative Global Citizens – new blog post http://shar.es/bmDul >Michelle James – always innovative, always worth reading
• 5Di: +1 RT @HarvardBiz What Shareholder Value is Really About http://s.hbr.org/nwc03d – Enterprise Debt? #entarch >as usual, HBR article confuses price with ‘value’, with one stakeholder-group arbitrarily privileged over all others…
• gkathan: RT @HarvardBiz: How To Make Companies Think Long-Term http://s.hbr.org/o0VimF >yes, a good start to corp-reform – much, much more is needed
• tetradian: (via @thoughttrans) Jeff Jarvis: #OccupyWallStreet & the failure of institutions http://bit.ly/q6Sjsx >loss of trust kills any structure for #society or #economics etc
• gkathan: RT @manfredbodner: a beautiful #vision how to save the world in 4min50sec – and how to get 45mio americans off #foodstamps http://youtu.be/HR-YrD_KB0M >yes: now one further step – shift to a responsibility-based model, not a possession-based one #society #economics
• CreatvEmergence: The visual story of Occupy Wall Street I The Atlantic http://bit.ly/nkTwzz via @deb_lavoy
• jdevoo: RT @tomfid: We’re in deep doodoo when geoengineering rises to the top of the agenda http://goo.gl/TT81m >yup… someone hasn’t heard of Department of Unintended-Consequences, have they…
• jdevoo: RT @VenessaMiemis: How Can Business-to-Business Trade Networks Build Local Resilience? http://bit.ly/o8UFdq #futureofmoney #localeconomy >useful review of the context, but as usual gets lost in the delusion that some currency-based model is ‘the solution’…
• Eclectopedic: http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ The previous RT of those no longer part of the 99% is incredibly sad, but these stories are almost as compelling. >the same reasons behind the ‘Arab Spring’, now arousing in the US as well
• SAlhir: RT @umairh: An economy without a working social contract is like a brain without a mind. >certainly one without a heart, anyway
• SAlhir: RT @loopdiloop: The creative class is a lie – Salon.com http://j.mp/qeVRRP >interesting read #culture #society #economics
• SAlhir: RT @euan The great thing about my kids’ schools having so many rules is that it helps build their dissent muscles. #society #culture
• CreatvEmergence: The Case for Play, storytelling, role-playing – http://chronicle.com/article/The-Case-for-Play/126382/ #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @sexythinker As movements like #occupywallstreet think more about “Conscience-Creative-Connected Capitalism” http://bit.ly/pjt97a >yes, huge change is needed: which is why they lost me at “profitable growth”, and it went steadily further downhill at every step… deckchairs-on-Titanic again, exactly what’s not needed right now… ::sigh::
• jdevoo: RT @dkorten: A dynamite #occupywallstreet video http://bit.ly/qPfCmR #neweconomy >’Arab Spring’, anyone?
• SAlhir: RT @goonth Sage words from @rushkoff -> Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it. http://ht.ly/6RpRG
• basvg: RT @Lefsetz: 30 years ago we had Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. Now, 30 years later in America, we have no jobs, no cash, no hope. >”coming soon – World Tour!” …
• ironick: RT @jeremyscahill: At bank, I joked w banker. “I was just on Wall St protesting you.” He replied, “I was there protesting me too.” #OWS

A back-and-forth about a harshly-critical view of current economic theory:

• smbounds: RT @socialtechno: How economists lost touch with reality (and were proud of it.) John Kay  http://bit.ly/nKjMLY >yep…
• Cybersal: @tetradian That John Kay article you tweeted is brilliant http://bit.ly/pVpNsr Same argument could be applied to #entarch
• tetradian: @Cybersal “Same argument could be applied to #entarch ” – yes, exactly – like you, I do wish more EA folks recognised that fact… sigh… // (it’s also why I suggest that whole-enterprise EA could have an important role to play in bringing us to a more sane economics…)
• ironick: Wow! John Kay: Absurdity of #economics. demand 4 universality,consistency&rigor is ideology not science http://bit.ly/rs8IES ht @tetradian

A variety of insightful responses to the death of Steve Jobs:

• davidcushman: RT @karaswisher: So much more poignant now: Apple Steve Jobs Narrating The Crazy Ones – 1997 http://youtu.be/8rwsuXHA7RA >an incredibly powerful reminder of what we can indeed do…
• SAlhir: RT @dhinchcliffe: RT @joshgreenman: Another Jobs lesson: education, pedigree and market dominance are ultimately no match for imagination.
• thoughttrans: RT @thisissethsblog: Seth’s Blog: A eulogy of action http://bit.ly/qImS25 >great response from Seth Godin
• joemckendrick: Steve Jobs: seven ways he taught us to ‘think different’ http://smrt.io/oFqPx3
• oscarberg: RT @jwmoss: Steve Jobs was born out of wedlock, put up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college, then changed the world. What’s your excuse?
• thinksmith: Tears again today…but a different kind: via @TheOnion – Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies http://onion.com/pQtc5S >well, yes, that’s the Onion, isn’t it? – “praising with faint damns”, one might say…
• SAlhir: RT @gabrielroth @evangineer: corporation is most powerful tool we’ve ever invented.typically used as club or lever.SJobs used as paintbrush.
• SAlhir: RT @gapingvoid: My #SteveJobs tribute is also a free high-rez download http://bit.ly/pC3Key Feel free to print out etc. >a version of ‘The Crazy Ones’ done as only Hugh can…
• SAlhir: Steve Jobs didn’t http://bit.ly/oI1Amq >quietly brilliant – strong recommend for #entarch #bizarch #orgarch etc

And, of course, all the other stuff:

• SAlhir: RT @storiedstrategy A Map of Woman’s Heart: Rare Vintage Gem from the 1800s | Brain Pickings http://ow.ly/6L3OG >hm… nothing much changed in almost 200 years, I see…
• davidriveroll: Useful WordPress Code Snippets and Hacks | webexpedition18 http://bit.ly/q8CsDC // A comparison of leading WordPress theme frameworks | Webdesigner Depot http://bit.ly/pJgRrn via @feedly
• business_design: 10% of my time I’d love being an employee who’s told what to do. 85% of my time I’m excited to be an entrepreneur. 5% = just lost… >agree – though I’d make that ‘just lost…’ figure a lot higher…
• vernaallee: Extraordinary Living Bridges Made of Growing Roots and Vines http://inhabitat.com/extraordinary-living-bridges-are-made-of-growing-roots-and-vines/
• CreatvEmergence: Science & aesthetics -The Feynman Series (pt 1) – Beauty [video] http://youtu.be/cRmbwczTC6E via @edwardharran >the irrepressible Richard Feynman narrates this quietly-beautiful 5min video
• DavidGurteen: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Anthony Robbins http://bit.ly/pkTuRg >or, in long moments of indecision, where it slumps like a tired souffle…
• SAlhir: RT @FredCuellar: 10 Things To Stop Caring About Today http://j.mp/nvX0Fv via @zite >another useful reminder…
• davidriveroll: Just posted a photo http://instagr.am/p/PKiwr/ >okay, so I happen to like old doorknockers…
• SAlhir: RT @robbiecat How much does it cost to develop an iPad App? http://bit.ly/pUYMcb via @polymash #mobile #iPad >in short, not cheap…
• DavidGurteen: Two basic rules of life: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. W. Edwards Deming http://bit.ly/r7iUd2
• jdevoo: RT @Modernegezegden: Born before about 1990? Then this pic will tickle you;  http://yfrog.com/o0lehhij >nice – “what’s the link between a pencil and a cassette-tape?”

Enterprise-architecture and the other ‘business big-picture’ stuff:

• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia Network analysis in innovation may surprise us http://bit.ly/nDy4eA
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: (high-level) Enterprise Backbone of Nespresso   http://bit.ly/mOJTuL #entarch #bizarch >>plus comment from me [ArtBourbon]
• jdevoo: RT @maxjpucher: Untamed Processes at #BPM Forum 2011 http://wp.me/pNFv-qh #ACM >> pre-req: systems thinking
• business_design: Impressively accurate mindmap of my #BIF7 talk about the #bmgen book story by @AmandaFenton http://goo.gl/C9XIP cc @theBIF >useful first-hand example of product business-drivers
• CreatvEmergence: Broken Logic, the Age of Uncertainty and Emergence by @Digitaltonto http://bit.ly/nyHAVr via @complexified
• business_design: Excellent observation RT @SAI: Microsoft Needs A New Business Model For Windows 8 Tablets by @fromedome http://read.bi/nDBwHu #bmgen >good illustration of what happens to predatory business-models…
• ironick: RT @WENOVSKI: Design Thinking = continually changing your mind about #DesignThinking >good point… #entarch
• Bebela239: RT @dtapscott: RT @Social_Innovate: FastCompany: Hassle Maps: The Genesis Of Demand http://bit.ly/p6LOSO #bmgen
• Bebela239: RT @Jabaldaia: RT @johnrougeux: @Jabaldaia @behradmirafshar if you’re interested in design thinking for change, check out Design Impact: http://j.mp/qRgMxq
• Bebela239: RT @gigaom: The smarter enterprise http://dlvr.it/n0X8G >nice sales-pitch for #cloud?
• davidcushman: Facebook’s broken strategy: http://bit.ly/qB365V #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• Bebela239: RT @Digitaltonto: Content Strategy vs. Content Skills http://bit.ly/qy5QEb >useful distinction #bmgen #bizarch
• gkathan: RT @ebuise: #Complexity Awareness: (book) http://bit.ly/nifs6C. Incl.  table of Open & Closed approaches via @complexified @mijori23  @TriarchyPress >interesting… #entarch etc
• getstoried: Amen RT @clementyeung: Can you really say you’re an effective listener when your objective is to convert people to your way of thinking? >hm… good point in #entarch etc…
• tetradian: [post] Rethinking the architecture of management http://bit.ly/odw1ZT #entarch #business #culture
• bergmart: 2011 is the year of a breakthrough in EA in Netherlands: finally EA is getting attention from boardroom #entarch >hooray! – “some sense at last / sense at last / great god almighty, sense at last!”
• oscarberg: Sometimes I realize that not everyone is working in fast-paced knowledge-intense businesses >yep…
• vernaallee: Update on the Value Delivery Modeling Language: Advances in Value Modeling | ValueNetworks.com http://shar.es/HLEuy >important development for whole-enterprise #entarch etc
• gkathan: RT @veronicamassoud: This is for those who love #servicedesign – a brilliant recommended book list http://www.servicedesignbooks.org/browse/
• DavidGurteen: Blog Post: Five quotations that represent my values http://bit.ly/pqO913 >core #entarch for one of the leading figures of #km etc
• joemckendrick: Is cloud computing too good to be true? Ask these nine questions first http://onforb.es/nSX9ju >solid advice from a respected IT-industry commentator #bizarch #entarch
• aojensen: Could gov’t #entarch and transparency avoid a financial crisis double dip? Yes, if euro countries had a shared policy architecture. // Shared policies of financial control and instruments could support much better control of risks in gov’t #entarch.
• practicingEA: Tripping on your shoelaces – is it possible for IT to lead too much? http://bit.ly/qXGuQj >a good leading-question from Brian Hopkins – post your replies on the Forrester site? #entarch
• practicingEA: How do you get business leaders engaged in Enterprise Architecture? http://bit.ly/rswtC3 #entarch >classic IT-oriented view of #entarch, but useful anyway
• chrisdpotts: Reading a global enterprise’s report to investment analysts – talks extensively about Financial Architecture. #entarch #bizarch #bizecology >good news – very necessary
• DavidGurteen: When Knowledge Sharing Turns to Knowledge Hiding http://t.co/dZIcJgok >key issue is loss of trust… #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Dave Polllard: The End of Strategy http://bit.ly/nTIvMT >recommend #entarch
• chrisdpotts: Experiences-Oriented #entarch (principle): people’s actual experiences often differ from our design. Sometimes, they’re exactly the opposite
• gkathan: RT @HarvardBiz: Management Tip: Communicate Your Company’s Values http://s.hbr.org/qRQTec >’obvious’ but essential #entarch
• pedrorsousaea: By @adrianrcampbell: The difference between Business Architect and Business Analyst http://bit.ly/qpkCaU >useful comparison-table #entarch
• tetradian: [post] Management as ‘just another service’ http://bit.ly/o8JQcV #entarch #orgarch
• thoughttrans: RT @simonsinek: Tactics are the things you do. Strategy are the things you do together. One strategy always trumps lots of tactics.
• practicingEA: Forbes: Lesson from Netflix: customer experience is the lens through which decisions must be viewed http://onforb.es/ntqoTM #bizarch
• Bebela239: RT @dtapscott: RT @GuyKawasaki: Innovation lessons from non-profits http://is.gd/BqGud9 #bizarch
• Bebela239: RT @HuffingtonPost: Simple technologies can improve the lives of millions http://huff.to/qnQWEk > #bmgen for the real world…
• practicingEA: RT @alexcullen: From the Forrester Communities: Summarizing how you get business leaders engaged in EA http://community.forrester.com/thread/5234
• oscarberg: Control is an illusion. When you think you are in control, you are at most vulnerable. // Don’t strive for control (since it’s an illusion). Strive to be prepared for the unexpected. >Taylorists please note? #entarch
• taotwit: Finally got around to tarting-up 5Di website – says more about what we do & more tablet friendly http://bit.ly/cQUefl >important innovator in #entarch etc
• livsystems: RT @johnmaeda: Artists are trained to work on the minutest of details while simultaneously keeping the *whole* in full perspective. >is key to #entarch etc too
• nickmalik: [post] Governance in the “organic” enterprise http://bit.ly/nm3Hcy (inspired by @tetradian “Mgmt as a service”) #entarch #orgarch #CIO
• taotwit: via @ebuise @DavidHolzmer: Tom Atlee: Whole System Conversations and the Voice of the Whole http://bit.ly/ncJBdb #entarch
• taotwit: Recent conversations tell me “What is a ‘Service’” debate continues: back-to-the-future.. – posts from 2009: http://bit.ly/16Bcg and http://bit.ly/l7q49 #entarch
• taotwit: Just VPEC-T’d my own website – doh, all back to front! Note to self: eat my own dog food – will do better! // While kicking myself for falling into trap ‘Cobblers’ Children’ I found this http://bit.ly/pEaTdF // VPEC-T’d version of my website to follow soon – hopefully you’ll see the difference! >consultants need biz-plans too…
• SAlhir: RT @ericries The Lean Start Up – A Business Model for Online Course | Courses That Matter http://ericri.es/o9ur8e #bmgen
• taotwit: When is striving for Simplicity in IT-EA a good thing and when…? #entarch http://post.ly/3PZWW >an important challenge for #entarch…
• SAlhir: RT @flowchainsensei: Henry Mintzberg: “[re: MBA] total sham. You cannot create a manager or leader in classroom.” http://youtu.be/_NRWtd_SiU8 // “Lots of companies have totally lost any sense of community. We need to rebuild that sense.”
• EAatWork: [post] overview of concepts in proposed #archimate 2.0 motivation extension http://tinyurl.com/eaatwork-a-motivationextension #entarch #itarch
• business_design: Must read for innovators RT @Paul4innovating: Understanding Innovation the W L Gore Way http://shar.es/b1lBN #innochat #innovation #bmgen
• tetradian: [post] Rebalancing top-down management-architectures http://bit.ly/qeGsWh #orgarch #entarch
• getstoried: Have you read The Gort Cloud? Really smart #storytelling for green eco-entrepreneur movement – http://bit.ly/pEXlMA #bmgen #bizarch #anticlient #sustainability
• hebsgaard: Gil Yehuda: Open Source and Corporate Culture. http://bit.ly/oeiiuK #entarch
• blomr: [BizzDesign] We are setting next steps in the implementation of business models. From business model to architecture model to process innovation and back #itarch #entarch #bpm
• tetradian: [post] What is the boundary of a service? http://bit.ly/ruCaBU #entarch (thx @emovere)
• business_design: Interesting take on a new (business model) battle RT @claychristensen: Disruption, the iPad and the Kindle Fire: http://bit.ly/rnZsLP #bmgen
• rettema: Reading niche construction: as important as natural selection in evolution [Wikipedia] http://bit.ly/n5F5yY >applicable to #entarch #bmgen etc
• gkathan: RT @stevebanhegyi Before any culture can change radically, there needs to be a supporting foundation of shared values. #culture #merger >strong agree #entarch
• joyce_hostyn: the downside of SMART goals bit.ly/nHFFhR >interesting – but more ‘both/and’ than ‘either/or’? #entarch
• tetradian: [post] What can we simplify in enterprise-architectures? http://bit.ly/pOYhNn #entarch (thx @taotwit)
• CreatvEmergence: New blog post by @timkastelle: Make Your Own Map to Make Novel Connections – http://bit.ly/raMBwG #innovation
• ironick: RT @MrAlanCooper: Call it Gall’s Law: All complex systems end up accomplishing the opposite of their original intentions.
• DavidGurteen: Jack Vinson: Culture is nebulous, focus on what you can change http://bit.ly/rnLfza >focus on behaviours, not ‘culture’ – some good points here, not sure I fully agree #entarch
• thoughttrans: Sometimes I have too many big ideas for enterprises to comprehend. I need to keep my mouth shut more! >the joys of the internal idea-hamster…
• greblhad: A capability is always more than the sum of its parts #entarch
• basvg: stories about what can go wrong if you do not follow standards are both interesting and scary! #entarch
• rettema: Adaptive lag hypothesis in niche constructions http://www.anthro.utah.edu/PDFs/laland-ea-15-95.pdf
• gkathan: RT @tonybosma: OxfordEconomics: 6 seismic shifts that transform the global playing field and affect companies in all industries [PDF] http://pwc.to/q2hMfQ #report #trends
• gkathan: RT @simplicableanna: How to build a smoking hot enterprise taxonomy  http://bit.ly/qe2KrW #entarch #cio
• thoughttrans: “The passion in the (he)art” – One last post as my morphing continues.. http://ow.ly/6KzYV #bizarch #entarch

A brief back-and-forth re ‘visionary’ enterprise-architecture:

• thoughttrans: What happens when the #entarch is more of a visionary than the C-Levels of the organization? >good question…
• Limbrey: @tetradian @thoughttrans.  Depends – is the #entarch is a good salesman? (Or woman).
• thoughttrans: @limbrey Is it a salesman or his/her storytelling ability to paint the vision for the non-visionary? @tetradian #entarch

Very brief back-and-forth on the classic ‘five whys’ investigation-technique:

• taotwit: Five Whys: A technique for preventing leap-to-solution #bcdesign #entarch http://t.co/Js8BLBDH
• kdierc: @taotwit great technique, applying it for years now… Drives people crazy sometimes
• taotwit: @kdierc yes, illustrates why EAs need consulting skills to execute

Another brief back-and-forth on the relative-priority for IT and other technology in enterprise-architecture:

• gkathan: RT @strategyarch: Enterprise Architecture challenges: Organization culture & Dynamics comes first, Technology the last. #Entarch
• ArtBourbon: @tetradian only if the technology has a purely supporting function // by which I mean we have to stop equating technology with the IT department
• tetradian: @ArtBourbon true – in most cases they need to be considered in parallel/iteratively [also yes, strong agree re 'technology' broader than IT]
• ArtBourbon: @tetradian then we are of one mind – good eh?
• tetradian: @ArtBourbon nah, c’mon… be no fun if we agreed on everything, now would it?

A happy back-and-forth on ‘the most useful tool for enterprise-architecture’:

• chrisdpotts: RT @strategyarch: Which is the most useful tool for Enterprise Architects ? I say whiteboard. #Entarch >agreed
• MartijnLinssen: @tetradian @chrisdpotts @strategyarch: Which is the most useful tool for Enterprise Architects ? < A0 plotter by far
• tetradian: @MartijnLinssen A0 plotter is kinda outside my price-bracket… – guess I’ll have to stick with whiteboard for now?
• MartijnLinssen: @tetradian Same here, but clients usually have one. Makes for great conversation material
• greblhad: @tetradian @chrisdpotts @strategyarch @MartijnLinssen: Which is the most useful tool for Enterprise Architects ? < A great colleague
• enectoux: @greblhad @tetradian @chrisdpotts @strategyarch @MartijnLinssen our brains.
• m_vrijhoef: @tetradian @chrisdpotts @strategyarch Brown paper & port-its in many colors and sizes are even better than whiteboard!

Another quick back-and-forth on business-models:

• greblhad: If business models is truly about behaviour then we need to care about feedback more than structure #bmgen #entarch
• rettema: “@tetradian: RT @greblhad: If business models is truly about behaviour …feedback more than structure #bmgen #entarch” true but ? // behavior appr. char. is they work with empirical facts to predict future bhvr like #LSS #bmgen does not.

Yet another very brief back-and-forth, this time on trust and vision in enterprise-architectures:

• craighepburn: Im loving the new @british_airways ad campaign #ToFlyToServe Just hope the crew live up to the challenge.  http://twitpic.com/6sqjdd
• davidcushman: @craighepburn @british_airways that’s the thing about rediscovered Purpose. Don’t just say you do it, do what it means. Show it. >role of vision (‘Purpose’) in #entarch

All the person-to-person stuff (and person-within-person stuff too):

• bonifer: RT @adaptivecoach: When we work alone we are limited to our own abilities. When we ask others for help our collective power is limitless. >yeah, yeah, I know… just wish I could do it, is all…
• ArtBourbon: RT @adraffin: http://bit.ly/p1gYVh < Interesting: remit of #CIO expanding to all tech? Would this increase or reduce IT centrism? #entarch >under present tendencies, almost certainly IT-centrism… oh well…
• DavidGurteen: When Consensus Doesn’t Work http://bit.ly/oCkzV0 >recommend #decisionmaking
• DavidGurteen: Dilbert: The futility of setting goals http://bit.ly/pPBzxl > ::sigh::… painfully accurate, as always…
• SAlhir: RT @How2LeadChange Recommended resource :- “#ChangeManagement – facing up to the horror of it all”. http://tinyurl.com/333zya4 >ouch… but yes, definitely useful
• CreatvEmergence: frog design: 3 Things Wile E Coyote Teaches Us About Creative Intelligence I FastCo Design – http://bit.ly/hYT62x via @johnsonwhitney
• SAlhir: RT @intmf: How Teddy Bears Can Make Your Company More Ethical – Video – @HarvardBiz – http://is.gd/DCyKRG #collab #orgarch
• SAlhir: Communication, Conversation, Collaboration – Where are you? http://bit.ly/nVwros
• DavidGurteen: Blog Post: A conversation doesn’t just shuffle the deck of cards — it creates new ones http://t.co/vp32qXxW #km #collab
• chrisdpotts: RT @AlanSee: If you’re not speaking to the emotional side of the brain, you’re not talking to the decision maker … emotion makes people take action
• SAlhir: RT @CreatvEmerence @edwardharran: “Command and Control Only Leads to More Chaos” Margaret Wheatley: http://on.ft.com/pYJnEs cc @integral_org_au
• CreatvEmergence: A Permaculture way to organize people – http://bit.ly/oC5SAG via  @CurtisOgden #collab #orgarch
• CreatvEmergence: Better Ideas Through Failure I WSJ http://on.wsj.com/mP7jZi via @ralph_ohr
• Bonifer: Is leadership irrelevant? (no, just the old models) http://onforb.es/nTpaxY #gamechangers >sigh… (tho’ good to see that even Forbes is championing for real change in the current mess…)
• davegray: Some great new games on the #gamestorming blog http://gogamestorm.com // “Status Center” added by @SmartAsHell http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=767 // “Merrill Covey Matrix” added by @lukehohmann http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=775 // “Learning Matrix” added by @lukehohmann http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=758 // “Question Balloons” added by @SmartAsHell http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=740 // “Project Jeopardy” added by @ninmah http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=743 // “Circles and Soup” added by @lukehohmann http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=747 // “Crossfire” added by @ninmah http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=753 #gamestorming
• SAlhir: RT @TheEconomist: Bosses think their firms are caring. Their minions disagree http://econ.st/odQpBz >oops… – even the term ‘minions’ illustrates this… #collab #entarch
• Bebela239: RT @HarvardBiz: CEOs not only need a new set of beliefs, they need the courage to act on them – @JeffreyPfeffer. http://s.hbr.org/n5XsG3 #FixtheSystem
• oscarberg: RT @GuyKawasaki: The importance of employee engagement [infographic] http://is.gd/rGD74n #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: RT @deb_lavoy Purpose, meaning & recognition more powerful motivators than economic self-interest I HBR s.hbr.org/nhsfHw #entarch #orgarch #NoRewards
• oscarberg: Collaboration and your company: Seven steps to get started http://bit.ly/rbpNCm by @GrahamHill via @krcraft @Choypw #collab
• BillIves: RT @rhappe: 18% of disengaged employees actually undermine their co-workers success @andyjankowski #SISV >yup – they become ‘anti-employees’, much like ‘anti-clients’
• ArtBourbon: RT @alainpaquin: Knowledge workers spend anywhere from 15%-35% of each day just searching for the right information – IDC report – pdf: http://ow.ly/6HC8V
• gkathan: RT @Leadershipfreak: Weak leaders control others – strong leaders release them. “You’ll lose if they can’t disagree” http://bit.ly/qP61b0
• taotwit: +1 RT @j4ngis Me like!  “The creative adult is the child who survived”  http://bit.ly/nqxL59 >’me like!’ too
• DavidGurteen: The easiest success measurement tool is a simple question. What did you do today to move forward? http://bit.ly/mUpJfL
• SAlhir: RT @flowchainsensei: Until folks understand fundamental differences between mindsets, ALL methods are top-down micro-waterfall mgmt vehicle
• thinksmith: RT @jessedee: Success: what people think it looks like; what it actually looks like http://yfrog.com/h7l7dbpj
• alphalo: An interview with me about open collaboration http://youtu.be/GnfZmo2tNwc // My thoughts on facilitation, workshops, and workshop workshops for social change http://youtu.be/MKPtDECoad4 >alpha is a key innovator in social-contexts #economics #society
• davegray: Design your obsolescence by @elliotfelix http://bit.ly/nYOVMh #collab #consulting
• gkathan: RT @Leadershipfreak: “The 4 Facets of Trust” by @GeoffreyWebb  http://bit.ly/pGlr9I – the pic is enough reason to drop over! #collab #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @flowchainsensei @hjarche: The Crisis of Meaning in the Knowledge Workforce http://ur1.ca/59eqr it’s the elephant in every boardroom >the irrepressible Luis Suares…
• DavidGurteen: Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World http://bit.ly/rpClwn >1: Change yourself; 2: You are in control; 3: Forgive and let it go; 4: Without action you aren’t going anywhere; 5: Take care of this moment; 6: Everyone is human; 7: Persist; 8: See the good in people and help them; 9: Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self; 10: Continue to grow and evolve.
• CreatvEmergence: Keep Listening, but Start Talking by @johnsonwhitney – HBR http://bit.ly/oK666V < Why http://bit.ly/DprL5 is all particpatory learnng methds
• CreatvEmergence: RT @DavidHolzmer: Evolutionary Leadership: The Embodiment of Systems Being – Rethinking Complexity http://bit.ly/obmhrI
• gkathan: RT @jukkaam: Anti-Conventional Thinking (ACT): you should never criticize ideas in a brainstorm  http://bit.ly/nsu58r #creativity #innovation >another application of the business-anarchist theme
• DavidGurteen: Howard Jarche: The new knowledge worker http://bit.ly/pr8AXn #KM #collab #orgarch

The other person-to-person stuff that has some kind of medium in the middle:

• oscarberg: RT @mijori23: If #SocBiz doesn’t thrill employees it’s b/c it’s being driven at them instead of allowing them to pursue their interests >yep…
• craighepburn: RT @hybridoriental: I love this concept of ‘Customer Service 2.0′ by @nixonmcinnes http://nowtweet.it/407 #socbiz
• CreatvEmergence: Structure of interactive narrative “Designing Interactive Narrative” – @StephenDinehart’s lecture – http://lnkd.in/PACXRb
• joyce_hostyn: Measuring our way to future success http://slidesha.re/oGsHjh by @congbo connected world as relationship platform #servicedesign #cx
• livsystems: From the “wouldn’t a mat and a couple of marbles be cheaper” dept: http://youtu.be/VaNzbCtxtcY <- cool #ux though >yes, cool #ux – yet it subsumes all imagination: not a good idea…
• BillIves: post: Avoiding Analysis Paralysis from Information Overload http://bit.ly/qTEJ2b #km
• gkathan: RT @uxmag: New article- http://uxm.ag/jz – Service Design: Setting The Stage For The Consummate Experience – #ux #servicedesign
• SAlhir: RT @loopdiloop Field – Ephemeral Structures http://ow.ly/6I4WN >interesting network-visualisation in what turns out to be an advert for a cellphone
• davidcushman: Kindle Fire just confirms (again) for me the future isn’t device specific http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/09/device-centric-era-is-about-to-end.html
• davegray: Great post on collaboration and social flow from @lirons: http://bit.ly/nHKzj5 #socbiz #connectedco
• joyce_hostyn: RT @danmartell: What features your customers ask for is never as interesting as why they want them. http://awe.sm/5W2I6 #bmgen #product #servicedesign
• davegray: RT @counternotions: “There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one.” >applies to a lot of contexts…
• practicingEA: RT @jameskobielus: Had a great idea. FrownBook. The social network for curmudgeons. There’s a “dislike” button. And a hair-trigger “unfollow” feature.
• oscarberg: Video about Eureka!, the social idea platform we use within Tieto (now productified) http://ht.ly/6JDoB #socbiz #innovation
• oscarberg: A short reminder why we’re doing this #socbiz thing http://slidesha.re/gMfpRh >yep… (and a quiet recommend…)
• rtolido: in case of fire, exit building BEFORE tweeting about it #slowtech http://bit.ly/qz4sL7 >becoming an internet classic, this one…

Anything IT-related:

• jdevoo: RT @LivWatson: XBRL Open Source Tools: http://bit.ly/nP5Khy
• gkathan: RT @cbcurran: #CIO Thoughts? : The 4 Types of CIO Dashboards http://bit.ly/15YHHU >useful summary #itarch #entarch
• adrianrcampbell RT @marcgeelen: on-line #archimate modeling tool http://bit.ly/qXQ1Sl #itarch #entarch
• gkathan: @RT @samarin: <blog post> Writing IT strategy http://bit.ly/ohTu7H >useful how-to #itarch #entarch #strategy
• practicingEA: RT @SmartDataCo: BPM and MDM are connected @juliebhunt / http://soc.li/yDDjNeE
• practicingEA: RT @SmartDataCo: DR is a good cloud use case @onlinetech / http://soc.li/6V0PwBV >hmm… will admit I still have my doubts… #itarch #entarch
• bergmart: Great stuff by Nist: cloud computing reference architecture http://twurl.nl/w2vqg4 #itarch #cloud
• joemckendrick: Cloud is already reshaping businesses in profound ways http://bit.ly/oXkfRw >is now about more than just ‘cost-cutting’ #itarch #entarch
• theopengroup: New on The Open Group Blog: Update on the EMMMv™ Forum, by Sarina Viljoen, The Open Group South Africa http://ow.ly/6HuwN >reference-architectures for mining/exploration etc #itarch #entarch
• theopengroup: Read The Open Group’s professional certification newsletter! #TOGAF, Open CITS and Open CA + New LinkedIn Groups http://p0.vresp.com/k418rK
• EAatWork: Nice dynamic viewpoint feature in future #archi 2.0 Check it out at http://bit.ly/nHA7rL #archimate #entarch >very nice!
• gkathan: why is #itgovernance so difficult ? http://oreil.ly/ggge3T >sounds like a case for a proper #entarch …?
• gkathan: #ITgovernance ensures that IT is working on the right things at the right time to enable business goals while managing associated risks
• gkathan: RT @InfoQ: Model-Driven Approach to Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) http://bit.ly/oXvMcL >nice, but why is it only for IT???
• jdevoo: Cloud Relevance for Development Professionals http://j.mp/nyTWLG >> curious about g-clouds overlaying sovereign borders… >good comment: where technology dreams meet up with political realities…
• rtolido: our ‘TRAIN to SCOOTER applications’ whitepaper now available. Hope you like it, let me know! http://goo.gl/CfUaW #itarch >recommend: can read online, or download via registration
• EAatWork: Archi 2.0 released: Dynamic viewpoints, same element on same view etc http://bit.ly/pPc38k >grt work by @Architool #archimate
• simonbrown: Updated slide set for “Software Architecture for Developers” online http://bit.ly/bCIvPG (Effective Sketches rolled in http://bit.ly/obrsp2) >most of Simon’s thinking on #swarch is directly applicable to #itarch #entarch etc – strong recommend

The real ‘big-picture’ in a human sense:

• Bebela239: RT @guardian: Charlie Brooker: If capitalism has failed, how the hell do we pay for our Shreddies? http://gu.com/p/326ad/tw >strong recommend #futureofmoney
• Bebela239: RT @Digitaltonto: RT @dscofield: Important essay by @julieanixter on @IXchat: Venessa Miemis on Why the Future of Money Matters http://flpbd.it/QS1m >useful points, though in some ways reinforces my view that the only viable future for money is that it has no future, in any form whatsoever
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer (EXCERPT) Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward a New Economic Paradigm – http://bit.ly/pFtyud #society #economics
• ironick: nytimes art: forget sensors, models, #IT — #smartcities embrace openness, randomness and serendipity http://nyti.ms/qLCMtV ht @nraford >will be interesting to see how this one pans out in real-life…
• davidcushman: RT @AndeGregson: RT @howarthm: Someone told truth on BBC. Amazing video of trader blowing cover http://youtu.be/aC19fEqR5bA // open your eyes and ears to this one. >impressive obscenity of the money-economy: “I’m looking forward to a crash, this is how we make money”… #society #economy
• tetradian: [post] Why are the elite the elite? http://bit.ly/qSUdpk #entarch #society #culture
• davidcushman: RT @umairh: The Institutional Innovation Manifesto – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review: http://t.co/bxFXzOAy >yep… #economics #society
• jdevoo: RT @theneweconomics: It’s Ecological Debt Day – for the rest of 2011 we are living beyond nature’s means http://bit.ly/qLlZmV #economics #sustainability
• davidcushman: RT @euan: Blogging about broadcasters, trust, the web and Alessio Rastani  http://bit.ly/ptHi6p >where traditional-news ‘sources’ are not what they seem – and no-one checks…
• Bebela239: RT @wired: How can we save the web from withering? “A single source repository and a good owner to drive it,” says Joe Hewitt http://bit.ly/rqpDsJ >very good points… (note also that ‘owner’ here is about responsibility, not ‘possession’)
• Bebela239: RT @Digitaltonto: Broken Logic, the Age of Uncertainty and Emergence | Digital Tonto http://bit.ly/nyHAVr
• thoughttrans: RT @annemcx: Happiness is a revolutionary act http://bit.ly/niAzdx that’s one of your best imo @gapingvoid
• joyce_hostyn: behavioral economics principles that can inform energy policy  http://bit.ly/rmkBma #servicedesign
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer: The Need for Systems Thinking at the Top | Sustainability by Design http://bit.ly/nK7mcF #politics #economics #society
• smbounds: Lighting your tapwater: Graphic evidence for the strict control of #fracking for coal-seam gas in Oz http://tinyurl.com/64glo8o >yikes…
• SAlhir: RT @flowchainsensei: Are MBAs just another certification Ponzi scheme, like CSMs? >a very good question… #society #orgarch #entarch
• thoughttrans: Seth Godin: The forever recession (and the coming revolution) http://bit.ly/ogK3Y6 >v.big-picture #entarch ?
• SAlhir: RT @umairh Human dignity can rarely be advanced unless a society has the courage to comprehend human fragility. >v.good point… #society #culture #economics
• business_design: Cool! RT @ECorner: Three things #entrepreneurs do for the economy. Watch this sketchbook video from @KauffmanFDN http://bit.ly/riDtSI #bmgen >nice, though absolutely bog-standard (i.e. non-sustainable) concept of business / #economics etc
• DavidGurteen: Digital Judgement http://bit.ly/pwFQWE #KM #culture #education
• davidcushman: Daughter, 6: If I were rich I’d pay people to do my homework. >a frighteningly large number of people seem to think that variants on that theme are what ‘wealth’ is… #society #economics #stupidity …
• DavidGurteen: Must watch: “The Corporation” (documentary, in 23 chapters) http://bit.ly/pno0rd #socialchange >real-#economics classic…
• davidcushman: RT @umairh: This is what we call a “kleptocracy”. And I wish I was exaggerating when I said that. http://bit.ly/nJh6OF >sigh…
• SAlhir: TimeMag: Message to Businesses: Uncertainty is Here to Stay http://ti.me/ndmavE #bizarch #economics
• alphalo: autopoetic self-replicating hyperlocal circles of social transformation are the way to create large scale social transformation >I think he means a pattern of person-to-person relationships, but I’m not sure…? – if so, then yes // Birth autopoeitic self-replicating hyperlocal circle network with starter circles. Starter circles purpose is to start other circles. // A strangers meeting/circle that incorporates the gift circle http://ow.ly/6Kzsb
• SAlhir: RT @umairh: bingo. RT @matthewstoller: And this one, @umairh  http://yfrog.com/o03q6vnj >yup… #bizarch #economics

Something so special it needs a category all of its own:

• jdevoo: We are all Hummingbirds. Rest in peace Wangari Maathai http://bit.ly/r5xdbC >”I do the best I can” – powerful reminder…

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

• DavidGurteen: Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. Robert Heinlein http://bit.ly/oZmlhY >one of my favourite quotes…
• jdevoo: Old San Francisco – interactive historical map and timeline 1850-2000 http://bit.ly/rjCgwh via @jhagel #fb
• thinksmith: Was just struggling with some logo thinking, and this solid collection showed up in my inbox via @linkedin http://designshack.co.uk/articles/graphics/50-fantastically-clever-logos >nice…!
• michellemilla: “You can make a lot of friends while traveling if you sketch in bars.” via @davegray #gamestorming >nice advice…
• Bebela239: RT @wired: Set up ten video camera traps in the Indonesian jungle, gather footage for one month, condense into five minutes http://bit.ly/q6nbzt
• Bebela239: RT @OpiceBlum: @ITRCSD: What to Do if You’ve Been Hacked http://on.wsj.com/ra8Jc5 via @WSJ #infosec #hacking
• Bebela239: RT @nybooks: Mariana Cook’s stunning photographs of stone walls–some of them thousands of years old–from around the world: http://j.mp/qiZBvj
• jdevoo: RT @HeleneMenu: Sustainable Living Plan Targets at Unilever Global: http://bit.ly/nmAeV2 #csr #entarch
• ironick: RT @fontsforfree: New font added: Ironick http://www.fontsforfree.net/fonts/ironick/ < my own font. cool!
• tetradian: [post] Apologising for the apologies http://bit.ly/nn20Rc #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @nowthink Apologizing always doesn’t mean you are wrong and others are right…It means you respect your relationship more than your ego.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture and the ‘business big-picture’:

• SAlhir: RT @complexified “Secrets of the Six Principles” – great primer on #complexity in orgs, and case studies. [PDF] http://bit.ly/q6JPcR
• thoughttrans: Can roadmaps be both strategic and tactical? >I would say yes #entarch #bizarch #itarch
• SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto An Innovation Roadmap http://bit.ly/p5UXG2 #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl #Value & #Innovation create markets says @michaeleporter http://bit.ly/nM5tdo & @nigelcameron http://bit.ly/mUxd7W
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl HBR’s Treasure Trove On Strategy [PDF] http://bit.ly/pc2ELH #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• oscarberg: RT @EskoKilpi: Social business is very different from industrial corporation http://bit.ly/qymNmE #socbiz #entarch
• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: New sketches, comments, references: ideas about Enterprise Backbone Architecture http://bit.ly/pOoOBZ #entarch
• chrisdpotts: “The Consumer Has the Technology. The Market Has The Process” (article:PDF) http://bit.ly/oDI4bd #entarch #BPM #strategy #bizecology
• SAlhir: RT @Annemcx: @gnva via @joesmithdesign Connected Futures – Why time-frames are good to define design research approach: http://l.gnva.com/oGI9QM
• SAlhir: RT @moia @Joi @flowchainsensei: “cost of planning, predicting and managing…exceeds the cost of actually doing” http://bit.ly/q7cWcN
• SAlhir: The Old World View focused on Efficiency and Effectiveness, and the New World View focuses on Creativity and Innovation #entarch
• chrisdpotts: Reminder: http://bit.ly/pbFNFP | RT @petersjolin: @chrisdpotts For the performance of the enterprise’s architecture.
• gkathan: RT @jukkaam 5 Questions That Kill Innovation: a how-to guide http://bit.ly/qGAvKs RT @philderidder #innovation #entarch #bmgen
• practicingEA: Forrester Communities: Lessons Learned from Enterprise Architecture Mistakes http://bit.ly/oP5K2q >recommend #entarch
• tonyrestell: RT @lisat2: 7 Lessons from Running a Consulting Company by @neilpatel http://bit.ly/mVasAC | wise words >useful advice…
• oscarberg: Transparency is Good for Business http://bit.ly/mYtIEI #socbiz #bizarch #entarch
• rettema: RT @kerfors: Volkswagen’s Vehicles Schema (Vocabulary or Ontology in #SemanticWeb parlance)  http://ow.ly/6yAt6 via @kidehen >useful complete example of an ontology in full business-use
• SAlhir: RT @SameerPatel: RT @Jon_Ferrara: Changing How We Manage Change – great post by @GrahamHill on @marktamis blog http://wp.me/pCUEC-5m >useful how-to reminders
• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: Don’t start modeling without first making some sketches! http://bit.ly/r85xEI #entarch #itarch #bizarch >more on Peter Bakker’s ‘tubemapping’ concept
• taotwit: RT @bmichelson: Roundtable: Enterprise Architects & Complex Event Processing http://bit.ly/mZaHvY <– with @taotwit & @tibbetts
• kdierc: RT @alecsharp: BPMN and UML are non-issues in any successful project I’ve seen in the past decade, so I wish ppl wouldn’t refer to them as “the standard.” #bpm #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Google Wallet: First Impressions http://on.mash.to/r3m22r > #itarch and #ux meet #bmgen and #bizarch?
• thoughttrans: One more time … enterprise architecture goes beyond corporate boundaries >why is this simple fact so difficult for so many people to understand?
• joemckendrick: Health care delivered, via technology, at very low cost http://smrt.io/pI5hHh >US-specific detail, but could be relevant anywhere #bmgen #socbiz
• gkathan: RT @johnokraut via @IATV: This Is Service Design Thinking: Customer Journey Canvas [PDF] http://bit.ly/qkE26D #bizarch #entarch #bpm
• business_design: interesting insights RT @om: How technology is changing business [Infographic] http://bit.ly/pLtKjW >a lot more than just technology, please…
• business_design: RT @trueventures: Adrian Slywotzky: improve your business through the art of Hassle Maps http://tru.vc/piLrAZ #bmgen >recommend
• oscarberg: @RT @kasey428: HBR.org: Companies Do Well if Workers Feel OK About Speaking Up http://bit.ly/p87v0m >simple stats (avg. 7.9% return vs 2.1%) to impact of functional vs dysfunctional power-models within org
• theopengroup: Are Business Process Management and Business Architecture a perfect match? http://nblo.gs/nnkUG >good sense from Serge Thorn #entarch #bpm
• rettema: #EntArch is a one time design that survived at least a decade of business turbulences of the enterprise that is serves // You cannot design or create an #EntArch, You can only conclude it was an architecture when you look back. #MyQuote
• ironick: panarchy calls 4 panarchitecture http://bit.ly/ex1fJy RT @angel_m @giusdesimone @jurgenappelo Panarchy: an amazing concept! >Nick Gall’s original Gartner article on a key concept in #entarch etc – recommend
• jdevoo: RT @adamwerbach: Supply chain footprinting is on the rise http://bit.ly/pizgvK #entarch
• EABard: How Should We Make Hard Decisions? http://zite.to/niFo7a via @zite #strategy #entarch (will admit I love the quote “capitalism makes everything complicated”… )
• jdevoo: RT @frogdesign: “the question is never about the technology, or even the system—it is about the people” http://bit.ly/q6MVsA #mhealth #innovation #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @Serve4impact: This Is Service Design Thinking: Deconstructing a Textbook : UXmatters http://bit.ly/pt6L0X #tisdt #entarch
• tetradian: [post] Dependency and resilience in enterprise-architecture models http://bit.ly/rpSyVk (for @pbmobi) #entarch #metamodel
• chrisdpotts: The most important relationship Enterprise Architects now need is with the enterprise’s Brand managers.  #entarch #CIO #CMO >mild disagree: it’s an important relationship, yes, but never ‘the most important’ – in a true #entarch, everywhere and nowhere is ‘the most important’, all at the same time…
• chrisdpotts: IT Consumerization means it’s no longer a constraint on #entarch #strategy that many people think EA is something to do with #IT. >v.strong disagree: the association with IT still makes it all but impossible to assess #entarch issues that do not revolve around (or even include) IT
• business_design: RT @tonysilbert: @jhagel two shifts: 1) from knowledge stock to knowledge flow (proprietary to open mindset) 2) from push to pull #BIF7 #bizarch #entarch
• chrisdpotts: Difference between #entarch & #bizarch = difference between enterprise & business.  Architecture = architecture, whatever the subject.
• CreatvEmergence: RT @DavidHolzmer: HBR: Netflix’s Bold Disruptive Innovation http://bit.ly/ny1h4S #bmgen #bizarch #strategy
• CreatvEmergence: Four pains of a new idea – http://bit.ly/jCf1S4 – by @MaxMckeown #innovation #bmgen
• gkathan: RT @jeannelking Cool look into #visualthinking: The Anatomy Of An Infographic, from @SpyreStudios http://fb.me/11BHBkSI4 #entarch toolbox >useful how-to
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: http://bit.ly/qZijIu Made a prototype of a #bmgen neuron network in CPN Tools! Small step toward the Enterprise Backbone #entarch >>good stuff. posted a comment >more ongoing #entarch idea-exploration from Peter Bakker
• SAlhir: RT @storiedstrategy Change is synonymous with strategy and emergence. #Change is #complexity. not a function & cannot be managed or planned. >in some ways ‘change management’ is more about how we manage ourselves in change, not change itself – have always liked Senge’s book-title ‘The Dance of Change’ for that reason
• gkathan: RT @OndrejGalik [Post] 4.Lesson Learned for #entarch: Start From Yourself http://wp.me/p1kuQj-5I >yes – recommend
• oscarberg: All businesses are social, but are held back by anti-social structures designed for economies of scale & efficiency // Businesses need to free themselves from the optimization straight-jacket to become more responsive, agile & innovative
• gkathan: RT @CMatignon: Understanding Business Rules is a challenge – here is my epiphany on the subject! http://bit.ly/mZebDs #decisionmgt #decision #entarch
• gkathan: RT @Sellers_Richard: “Relevance v Preference: Rethinking #Brand Differentiation” http://ow.ly/6AxqC by @carol_phillips #MENGonline #CMO #Marketing #bmgen #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @slapCompany Why live your values? Contribution and community are what await you when you live your values. >also for #entarch etc
• SAlhir: RT @Design4people Value Was in Conversation!Embracing Inclusion with Design Thinking;Driving Innovation http://bit.ly/qiAxhX #designthinking
• caro_buck: Why most product launches fail… http://hbr.org/2011/04/why-most-product-launches-fail/sb3/1 Interesting read. #bmgen #bizarch
• taotwit: RT @roygrubb: RT @seabird20: Bt moving from “build to last” mentality to a “build to change” mentality. >> So complex adaptive?  (@taotwit) #entarch >the ‘backbone vs Agile’ trade-off
• joyce_hostyn: 10 patterns for org change when your business model is being disrupted by digital media http://slidesha.re/qIrhs2 by @mpedson via @deb_lavoy #bmgen #socbiz
• joemckendrick: Medical ‘tricorder’ device competition coming in 2012 http://smrt.io/nlMX5M >big X-prize, also very big #bmgen opportunity…?
• greefhorst: RT @ebuise: An interesting framework for architect competency – http://sfi.cc/digvl #entarch #bizarch via  @ruthmalan @systemsflow >useful resources for #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @ArnoldBeekes Stephen Denning: Can Organizations Be Profitable AND Responsible? Review of book ‘Management Reset’ http://onforb.es/raZ0IZ #orgarch #entarch
• tetradian: [post] Backbone and business-rules http://bit.ly/rpNnaM (thx #pbmobi @taotwit @CMatignon) #entarch #itarch #bpm
• business_design: a) describe what job you are getting done for each customer segm. b) describe the value prop for each segm. #BusinessModelInnovationWorkout #bmgen

A rather graphic first-hand example of ‘how to create an anti-client’:

• aojensen: Thanks, #telstra. Charged me with $ 59.00 for moving my antiquated POTS landline to a new address, 2 km away. 1994, anyone? // And by the way, I only chose to move and not close my #telstra subscription so that #TPG could move my ADSL2 connection. // So #TPG actually require a #telstra landline to be in place in order to test if they can deliver naked ADSL2. // And then #TPG charge me with an additional $ 59 just for relocating the ADSL2 line to another address. All up, this is nearly $ 120. // #Telstra and #TPG, you are punishing and not serving consumers. How come you punish customer loyalty? Had I known this PRIOR to moving // my landline, I would have avoided both of you, #Telstra and #TPG. In other words, you suck big time. #fail
• alecsharp: @aojensen Be grateful for their ineptitude – you now have a Telco case study to add to the repertoire of Telco stupidity we thrive on.

A back-and-forth between Nick Gall and Chris Potts on experience-orientation in enterprise-architecture:

• ironick: +1 tho sadly ~no conventional #entarch is exp-centric. Need #designthinking. RT @chrisdpotts: “It’s an experiences-centric architecture”
• chrisdpotts: @ironick If conventional #entarch is falling out of step with today’s realities, then it’s time for Enterprise Architects to innovate.
• ironick: @chrisdpotts +1. here’s how #entarch should become more experience-centric: http://bit.ly/aPYzup >pointer to Nick Gall’s ‘Hybrid Thinking’ paper, unfortunately behind Gartner paywall
• chrisdpotts: @ironick Enterprises can design appearances. Experiences are co-created with consumer. #entarch #bizecology #valuenetworks #RecrEAtion
• ironick: @chrisdpotts +1 exploratory co-creation is a fundamental aspect of #hybridthinking #designthinking. needs to be applied to #entarch
• chrisdpotts: @ironick Experiences are co-created as they happen. They are emotional & depend on many live variables.  #entarch #bizecology #valuenetworks
• ironick: @chrisdpotts +1. experiences have big emotional part. we CAN architect in advance 2 afford better co-creative exps. #hybridthinking #entarch
• ironick: @chrisdpotts Better #entarch is 1 part #wabisabi, 1 part #bricolage, 1 part #panarchy, bound with #designthinking. result #hybridthinking

A really useful Tweet-summary, mostly by Gene Leganza, of the CIO/CMO (Chief Information Officer / Chief Marketing Officer) conference:

• gleganza: #CIOCMO11 Keynotes getting started. Sharyn Leaver doing intros. // Sharyn comparing CIOs and CMOs to Romeo & Juliet: The indivs get along; their respective orgs & culture make it tough going // Sharyn laying out sources of competitive advantage over time… // Age of Manufacturing, Age of Distribution, Age of Info all lead to now: Age of the Customer // MPOV: Others have declared other periods the “age of the customer,” but the groundswell of social and web 2.0 make it REALLY now
• gleganza: Bobby Cameron and Jeff Ernst taking the stage for the #Forrester keynotes at #CIOCMO11 // Title of session is “New Opportunities Emerge When Marketing & IT Focus On The Customer Life Cycle” // Bobby using modes of dress to point out the traditional differences btwn IT and Marketing people // Jeff Ernst, Marketing-related analyst, talking about the relationship btwn Marketing and IT becoming mission critical // Jeff comparing Blockbuster (bankrupt) & Netflix // “customers want less” !? // customers want less hassle, less time, less need for support // Less is more [convenience] // Tech-fueled customer-led disruption redefine the customer experience  // Bobby & Jeff: CIOs & CMOs must partner to drive customer obsession to win in the Age Of The Customer // Bobby: CMOs and CIOs are uniquely positioned to partner in driving customer obsession  // CMOs instill customer obsession across the value chain, while CIOs coordinate interactions and information across the value chain
• joyce_hostyn: RT @forrester: RT @TomGrantForr: A big part of “The Age Of The Customer” is getting technology adoption, not just deployment. #ADF11
• chrisdpotts: RT @forrester: Difference between IT and Marketing is imploding driven by this Age of the Customer. – Cameron #ciocmo11
• gleganza: Case studies on CMO/CIO partnerships: Catepillar, IBM, Adidas, P&G #CIOCMO11 // Caterpillar example: Disruption from buyer behavior changes // Caterpillar: Traditional sales method — dealer in person with buyer BUT… // …now 56% buy tractors online! Major change in buying behavior, even for tractors! // So Caterpillar studied key customer touchpoints in cust experience lifecycle – IT/Marketing partnership for studying use cases
• gleganza: IBM story-12% revenue increase year-on-year for Q1 – Whatever they’re doing, it’s working #CIOCMO11 // IBM has complex ecosystem of brands, partners, & suppliers // IBM’s VP of Order to Cash & Marketing Transformation partnered with VP of Marketing totally revamped their systems 4 customer info // Now there’s a job title…Does YOUR org have a “VP of Order-to-Cash and Marketing Transformation”?
• gleganza: Adidas case: They target 15-25 yr olds who have to have the “new thing”  #CIOCMO11 // Adidas having to shorten their product dev cycles // Adidas CIO and CMO don’t obsess over Nike, the gorilla in their space, but on their customers // Adidas Marketing didn’t get IT issues, IT didn’t get Marketing, so for major World Cup effort, created a joint team // “social listening team” ID’ed athletes to sponsor and used social media to test campaigns
• gleganza: P&G example: Lots of brands, in biz 174 years! #CIOCMO11 // P&G: Global CIO drove “virtual modeling and simulation services” to speed up prod dev cycle: supports product innovation // P&G used to take 6-7 weeks to do customer testing with physical mockups // P&G created virtual environment in hours or days, not weeks. // P&G has a library of shelves in a virtual library-can simulate customer experience in Target, Walmart stores
• gleganza: Bobby and Jeff about to take questions from CIO & CMO audience #CIOCMO11 // [I'm doing a breakout session later with CIOs and CMOs to address tech planning issues; will be interesting to see the interaction]
• gleganza: Q: What did the CIOs and CMOs really do 2 make  changes happen? A: Weekly CIO/CMO meetings generating ideas, maintaining momentum #CIOCMO11 // P&G CIO aggregated 170 common services as part of prod dev lifecycle; goal was not cost-related but all about enabling innovation
• gleganza: Q: Role of CMO on defining priorities for program/project agenda. Role in project portfolio mgt? #CIOCMO11 // A. In P&G, funding is ongoing payment structure btwn internal customers (eg, marketing) and IT org-continued funding based on sat
• gleganza: Q: Have analysts seen ancillary depts (HR, etc) change processes to accommodate this customer focus thing? A: Absolutely… #CIOCMO11 // …processes change to recognize ROI from all the related activity
• gleganza: Q: Is main problem for orgs power struggles? A: Perception probs: Marketing less important than operational systems in IT’s eyes #CIOCMO11 // …IT has HAD to focus on keeping operational systems highly available. Made Marketing a second-class citizen of sorts // Bobby: so the prob is language, metrics, lots of things: it’s systemic. Solution is to make customer obsession systemic
• gleganza: Nigel Fenwick & Luca Paderni keynote at #CIOCMO11 starting // Nigel invoking those HSBC ads to illlustrate the issue of perspective // Nigel hands off to Luca with a Dilbert cartoon showing IT’s perspective of marketing (hint-it’s not flattering) // Luca counters with an image representing Marketing’s view of IT: a snail. touche! // Luca & Nigel’s solution follows the basic people-process-technology model // People: Merge IT and Marketing. OK, not really merge the orgs,but get these ppl working together. Get left & right brains together
• gleganza: Supervalu example: Formed joint IT/Marketing team w/shared budget & matrix reporting #CIOCMO11
• gleganza: AB InBev example-Again, shared IT/Marketing ownership, in this case for customer retention #CIOCMO11 // Lesson: restructure teams, co-locate teams, share accountability
• gleganza: Now the process part… #CIOCMO11 // Process focus is on time to market, speed, agility
• gleganza: Supervalu: “Agile-like” methods, rapid prototyping (disposable solutions), 90-day value creation #CIOCMO11
• gleganza: Nissan example-Formed marketing technology steering committee; did tech and design together via CIO/CMO collaboration #CIOCMO11 // Nissan’s result: significantly increased transparency // “Plan for fast failure”
• gleganza: Rolls Royce example: Real-time analytics for global data on engine failures #CIOCMO11 // RR: Warnings on need for engine maintenance sent to ground crews
• gleganza: Survey data: CIO hires staff w/marketing expertise? CIOs 33% yes, CMOs 20% yes #CIOCMO11
• gleganza: Q: Need additional CxO to make CIO/CMO partnership work? COO? A: Yes. Starts with CIO/CMO, but gotta get to key execs #CIOCMO11 // …especially gotta get the execs with checkbooks bought in and involved
• gleganza: Q: Culture of orgs before ‘harmonic conversion?’ A: Supervalu-traditional separation; hired new execs to make it happen #CIOCMO11 // “Cultural shift starts with leadership”
• gleganza: Q: 90 days “a luxury” to prove value-what to do if extreme speed necessary? #CIOCMO11 // A: Short time horizon? Challenge shifts to selecting projects/pilots with more likelihood of success  // Business metrics on business outcomes are the way to measure success for BOTH IT and Marketing

Narrative-knowledge, creativity, leadership and other things to do with in-person collaboration:

• davegray: Awesome. RT @inkblurt: @ptquattlebaum reveals contents of his workshop-ready “stormbox” http://bit.ly/njLNkW #vizthink #gamestorming >recommend also for #entarch etc
• KMskunkworks: Six critical things your company wants to know http://bit.ly/qCFsSd #KNet2011 #KCube #Innovation #Training >aka Zachman? #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl At the heart of execution is an individual who has choices to make. >ie. #entarch is people, not just IT!
• SAlhir: RT @CoreyBlake9000 Perspective is everything @IdeaSandbox:How to Frame Problems To Create Better Solutions http://bit.ly/or9sEe @RTCompanies #innovation #creativity
• SAlhir: RT @nowthink: The ‘perceived’ complexity of a task will grow in direct proportion to the amount of time we procrastinate. | RT @MarkOOakes >ouch…
• DavidGurteen: Is all knowledge practical? http://bit.ly/n2NHo3 #KM
• DavidGurteen: Nick Milton: Top 7 tips for knowledge management success http://bit.ly/picTcV #KM >view #entarch as KM too?
• KMskunkworks: Do you exploit the value in success or do you only dig through failure? http://wp.me/pUfyy-aU #KNet2011 #innovation #training, #KM >important re lessons-learned etc
• DavidGurteen: Collaboration processes – a first pass guide http://bit.ly/ruy1hc #KM >another great Nick Milton how-to
• SAlhir: RT @atownley @thinktank_ @MaxMckeown: Great quote from great thinker “No, no, you’re not thinking, you’re just being logical.” -Niels Bohr >yup, see that one all too often… (in me as much as in others… )
• DavidGurteen: Jack Vinson: Rules of knowledge management http://bit.ly/ru0YhP #KM >also useful for eg. #lenscraft etc
• DavidGurteen: Basic design for extraordinary conversations http://bit.ly/oo8O9z #conversation #GoodToTalk >useful summary how-to for any context in #entarch etc
• BillIves: new post – The Untapped Sources of Business Intelligence http://bit.ly/pDhZTm #bizarch
• CreatvEmergence: RT @zspencer: The beauty of soft systems thinking is not how it breaks things apart, but how it emphasizes their interconnectedness. #bif7
• CreatvEmergence: Natural Resistance in the Creative Process – http://shar.es/HMwnT
• SAlhir: RT @NewCommGlobal RT @kenblanchard @LeaderChat: How to Listen for Values: #Values’ role in #leadership. http://ow.ly/6oszF #entarch #collab
• oscarberg: Why do I have to collaborate? http://bit.ly/pr7D4q by @eskokilpi < “Work is communication between interdependent people” #socbiz #collab
• rettema: RT @GuyKawasaki: Storytelling vs corporate speak [infographic] http://is.gd/9B7IUd >use for #entarch etc?
• gkathan: RT @Leadershipfreak #1 Post over the last 7 days: “The #Leadership Quality No One Ever Mentions” http://ht.ly/6CHYp #success >>strong agree! >”inviting others in” #collab
• DavidGurteen: A clear introduction to the concept of ‘Ba’ http://bit.ly/oydfO3 >a #KM classic: apply in #entarch?
• SAlhir: RT @adaptivecoach Why do we persist on calling them “soft” skills? They are the hardest of all. If they weren’t we’d all be masters of them. >good point…
• DavidGurteen: Seth’s Blog: Post-mortem or pre-natal http://bit.ly/qkk12n #KM >good distinction re purpose of After Action Review and the like in #entarch etc
• SAlhir: The Six Diseases http://bit.ly/TheSixDiseases // 1: The desire for victory (‘ends’) // 2:  The desire to resort to technical cunning (‘means’) // 3: The desire to display all that you have learned (‘individual/collective’) // 4: The desire to overawe the enemy (‘conflict/adversity’) // 5: The desire to play a passive role (‘engagement/disengagement’) // 6: The desire to get rid of whatever disease you are likely to be infected with (‘perfection’) >martial-arts meets #entarch? – v.brief, but recommend

Social-media, ‘social-business’, user-experience and other aspects of the online world:

• BillIves: RT @rossdawson: Mashable: Anatomy of a social media crisis http://on.mash.to/pA0RTj >useful overview of disaster-recovery planning etc #socmedia #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl RT @newcommglobal Porter’s 5 Forces in the Age of Social Media http://bit.ly/qPsghI #bmgen #socbiz
• CreatvEmergence: By @deb_lavoy Social Business and Enlightenment 2.0 http://wp.me/p823O-8E >respect is central #entarch
• oscarberg: Some thoughts for our new blog: Designing the digital workplace of the future http://bit.ly/nGQy3Y #socbiz #e20
• BillIves: RT @jonhusband: “10 General Principles for Leading & Managing in Networked Knowledge Workplace” http://bit.ly/94G7u9 #collab #e20 #socbiz #entarch
• craighepburn: RT @Whatleydude: #SMWBeirut Social media isn’t about technology, it isn’t about being on or offline, it’s simply about Being Human http://bit.ly/1zjRYz
• joyce_hostyn: points don’t work in long run, need flow to connect with intrinsic motivation RT @webtechman gamification 101 http://bit.ly/p15UZl >finally something sensible beyond the usual ‘gamification’ hype…
• BillIves: RT @marciamarcia: Enjoying a wise metaphor of social media elements like those on a periodic table http://j.mp/p0sOxG >nice visual-classification of key people, tools etc #socmedia #socbiz
• joyce_hostyn: watch for pitfalls of #storytelling > make the reader the hero “Storytelling and the Art of Email Writing” http://bit.ly/pJzHmm
• jdevoo: RT @stephaniewojcik: Electronic government services in Europe: Strategies, projects and applications (pdf) http://bit.ly/owzYCW #egov #w3 socbiz
• oscarberg: Blogged: Can this be your future of work environment? http://goo.gl/fb/boFyU >people-oriented #entarch
• oscarberg: Investigating current social business scenarios http://bit.ly/nta8M7 by @for_desire_it <  Avoiding social islands & social silos #socbiz
• SAlhir: RT @ArnoldBeekes Social networking enters the dreaded “It’s Complicated” stage http://bit.ly/nNrK2A >”less is the new more” for #socbiz #entarch etc
• SAlhir: RT @EskoKilpi: RT @hrheingold Howard Rheingold (1998): The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online http://bit.ly/o8Zeet >how-to for #socmedia #socbiz #km etc

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

• SAlhir: RT @nyike Agile != (Sprint cycle + standups) | (coding – documentation) >good way to put it… #swdev #entarch
• basvg: new post in TOGAF series: starting architecture with a vision http://bit.ly/p7Styh >useful #TOGAF best-practices #itarch #entarch
• joemckendrick: Cloud Computing May be a Shot in the Arm our Economy Needs – Forbes http://onforb.es/oBpJS4 #itarch #bizarch
• practicingEA: From the Forrester Communities: Xforming #entarch to strategic focus? How to do you get it done? http://bit.ly/qJj9uF >good points, though still very much TOGAF-style IT-centrism
• adrianrcampbell: John A Zachman: Cloud Computing and #EntArch http://bit.ly/qOfHHn
• joemckendrick: At Forbes site, I make the case for cloud computing as a game-changer for many aspects of the economy http://onforb.es/oBpJS4 #cloud #itarch
• SAlhir: How Agile are We? Agility Health Quotient/Index (AHQ/AHI) http://bit.ly/Agility-Health // People: Commitment & Accountability // Value: = Results in Context // Collaboration: Flow-&-Pull or Batch-&-Push // Expeditious/Fast, Reactive, or Responsive #agile #lean #scrum #kanban >recommend – a kind of SEMPER for s/w-dev etc #entarch
• taotwit: Thinking framework for Business/IT ‘Systems’ behavior based on Cynefin http://bit.ly/qIOkyI >useful insights – recommend #entarch
• richardveryard: Notes on Interface: At an architecture workshop in Vienna last week, I put together a few slides to address some… http://bit.ly/prOxuF #itarch #ux
• davidsprott: In today’s complex world Dependency Analysis should be the No1 technique. Pleased to see HP’s Mark Potts agrees http://tinyurl.com/3r4nw8q #itarch #entarch
• basvg: RT @ericschabell: Avoid the new vendor lock-in, use an Open cloud solution! #OpenShift http://sgp.cm/858fa5 >good how-to on a very necessary #itarch #entarch concern re #cloud
• kdierc: RT @MartijnLinssen: The ERP paradox http://bit.ly/oo5G0b #sap #itarch #entarch #governance
• gkathan: RT @decisionmgt: Just uploaded ‘Decision Management Systems Part One Decision Discovery’ to SlideShare. http://slidesha.re/ruF973 #itarch #entarch #bpm
• theopengroup: Great new post on The Open Group Blog by Eric Boulay: “How EA is leading enterprise transformation in France” http://ow.ly/6D8rN #entarch

Society, culture, economics, sustainability and other real ‘big-picture’ themes:

• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl: A graceful approach to the dance between wealth & power http://on.ft.com/qANjOX RT @flowchainsensei >an FT view of power in the business context
• CreatvEmergence: 8 Current Technologies That Will Shape Our Future: http://mashable.com/2011/09/18/future-technology/ via @JamesBurgin @mashable >interesting and relatively sensible example of technology-futures
• CreatvEmergence: The beauty about finding your calling: it’s impossible for anyone or any data to persuade or “reason” you out of it >good illustration around what I’ve been saying on non-money economics
• tetradian: [post] An economics challenge for enterprise-architects http://bit.ly/prtXwg #entarch #economics #society
• tetradian: [post] Responses to ‘EA economics challenge’ http://bit.ly/pqFvmJ #entarch #economics #society
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer: Sustainability Community Tackles the Problem of Language – http://bit.ly/olqsvR >language and #bizstory: “focus less on the complex science behind sustainability and more on the stories that move and persuade” – same could said for #entarch etc
• business_design: !! RT @claychristensen: RT @arstechnica: Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars http://bit.ly/qZvTBS … >oh the joys of the ‘intellectual-property’ scam…
• JosvanOosten: Why the Impossible Happens More Often http://dlvr.it/mKft0 #futures
• rtolido: in the unlikely case you missed it: the past and future of famous logos http://bit.ly/r0l5uo >nicely ironic view of business…
• davidcushman: RT @loudmouthman: Yet more evidence of 3d printers being used for purposes that govts will try to ban them for : http://bit.ly/qIBScv >more surface evidence of the much deeper problem of possession/’right-to-exclude’ in #culture #economics etc
• ArtBourbon: RT @vernaallee: Stephen Denning: Critical value networks at risk? http://onforb.es/rcWlCU >>knee-jerk outsourcing and the risks of shareholder capitalism >outsourcing as an addictive short-term performance-enhancing drug: “investment-bankers as drug-dealers in pin-stripe suits” – recommend #economics #society #culture #bizarch #entarch
• hvaelama: #democracy needs people with capacity to 1.critical thinking 2. think as a citizen of world 3. put themselves in the position of others >yes, I’d say that’s a minimum requirement – so we have a serious problem with current ‘democracy’ that acknowledges none of these needs… #society #politics
• CreatvEmergence: RT @sebpaquet: Liquids heat up for a long time before the first bubbles appear; this doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
• davidsprott: These days I always read the economist back to front. This (Ray Anderson obit) illustrates why. http://econ.st/nIrn46 >a quiet recommend on #entarch etc…
• Bebela239: RT @fastcompany: New website @Slave_Footprint tells you how much slave labor has gone into everything you own. http://bit.ly/pwk75M by @arielhs >ouch… another Inconvenient Truth… #society #culture #economics #sustainability
• DavidGurteen: How questioning economic growth left me feeling like a “Pilgrim from the 25th Century” http://bit.ly/ornSdK >recommend! – I’ve been having much the same struggle elsewhere…
• DavidGurteen: Moving from Understanding and Protest to Direct Action http://bit.ly/oOEd1V #SocialGood
• Bonifer: RT @ffunch: There are real scarcities, of course. A good economic system would be one that manages them, rather than rewarding multiplying them. #economics #society #culture #possession

A sizeable back-and-forth on my post about the (lack of) future for money:

• tetradian: [post] The future of money is that it has no future http://bit.ly/piDi8r #economics #society #culture
• gkathan: RT @tetradian [post] The future of money is that it has no future http://t.co/6ANZ27GZ #economics #society #culture <how to “deal” with responsibility?
• tetradian: @gkathan re responsibility, see e.g. http://bit.ly/nGAyNO or http://bit.ly/r4tP2m or http://bit.ly/nZxpIR or http://bit.ly/q2rnYt
• tetradian: [post] The architecture of a no-money economy http://bit.ly/poCT6W #entarch #economics #society
• tetradian: [post] An economics challenge for enterprise-architects http://bit.ly/prtXwg #entarch #economics #society
• chrisdpotts: @tetradian re: http://bit.ly/prtXwg Echoing my recent Tweet, each of us is an economy-of-one.  If we’re in a household, it’s a layer on top. // Being an economy-of-one, each of can use the 4 Factors of Production to create value (Land, Labor, Capital, Enterprise) #entarch
• tetradian: @chrisdpotts agree re ‘layer on top’; less agree on ’4 Factors of Production’, b/c in many ways they assume possession, which doesn’t work // the ’4 Factors’ are valid, but they need a major re-think to work in a responsibility-based economy – hence this work
• MartijnLinssen: Great post but link to #entarch confuses > RT @tetradian: An economics challenge for enterprise-architects http://bit.ly/prtXwg #entarch
• tetradian: @MartijnLinssen why does link to EA confuse? – to me economics (esp. macroeconomics) is whole-enterprise architecture at very large scale
• richardveryard: @chrisdpotts @tetradian I talk about the 4 factors of production in my paper on the future of money. #LongFinance http://tinyurl.com/639k3xz
• m_vrijhoef: @MartijnLinssen @tetradian Shortest answer to the posed problem: Unified common goals, disposal of religion and value of ‘self’
• tetradian: @m_vrijhoef agree, perhaps esp. about ‘disposal of religion’ – possession-/money-economy _is_ a dysfunctional religion (w/out morals.. )
• MartijnLinssen: @tetradian it was a pretty “controversial” post and I liked it, but ending references to #entarch sent me into the woods
• chrisdpotts: @tetradian Re:  Factors of Production. The assumption of possession is in the eye of the beholder. #entarch // A #strategy that depends on a rethink of the basics of Economics has a low chance of success.
• tetradian: @chrisdpotts I fear you miss the point here: this isn’t mainstream strategy, it’s root-economics, at least 2-3 layers deeper than strategy! // why did you introduce the red-herring of strategy? all the posts made it clear this was _not_ about strategy…?
• rettema: @tetradian interesting timing Tom , see mckinsey quarterly #sustainable http://e.mckinseyquarterly.com/147e4fa98layfousibojkwkaaaaaabxqr5nzsp4fxj4yaaaaa
• tetradian: @rettema many thanks for that McKinsey pointer – is a good illustration of what doesn’t/can’t work…

And the small section without a name – the one that everyone likes most?

• davegray: Offmaps (iPhone app) is a lifesaver for data-roaming travelers. Downloadable maps, offline navigation by triangulating local wifi points
• thoughttrans: RT @presentationzen: Yoda pie chart http://post.ly/3GUtq <BRILLIANT!  I need to blow that one up and wallpaper my wall w it!
• SAlhir: Bitcasa – Infinite Storage on Your Desktop – Sign up for Beta now! http://www.bitcasa.com/beta-signup?share=1745445624 via @Bitcasa
• SAlhir: Two TED talks by Barry Schwartz: on our loss of wisdom http://bit.ly/1aB27F , on the paradox of choice http://bit.ly/19n2yD

Enterprise-architecture, strategy, innovation and all the ‘business big-picture’ themes:

• gkathan: RT @simplicableanna: Why Enterprise Architects need to understand games http://bit.ly/pSg4eQ #entarch #cio >sorry, but I still can’t see past the hype to anything real… ‘gamification’ still feels more insulting than engaging…
• Bebela239: RT @davos: Sustainability requires standardization, slowness and centralization – @jmskibsted http://wef.ch/7mqA >another example of the ‘backbone vs edge’ trade-off #entarch #bizarch #bmgen
• business_design: RT @bill_fischer: Disruptive #innovation also hits parallel value-chain players: eBook displaces books & book shelves: http://econ.st/pWFSux // Business Model Innovation: Most book publishers are doomed because they don’t really understand their customers nor technology #bmgen
• tetradian: [post] More on simplified Enterprise Canvas http://bit.ly/nb9pax #entarch #bizarch #bmgen #bpm
• thoughttrans: Article I wrote right after 9/11/01 #sept11 being in the thick of Wall St connectivity issues http://ow.ly/6r8wQ does it still apply? // Follow up article #sept11 written 2002 http://ow.ly/6r8AH have you implemented processes yet? >a close colleague’s first-hand experience of (US) 9/11, and also first-hand business-continuity / disaster-recovery lessons-learned for #entarch #bizarch etc
• joemckendrick: NYT Mag: ‘Bubble Boys’: If you have an idea for an app, do it now. Throw it up online. Find an audience. Worst-case, you try again. http://bit.ly/oSm5yJ #startup #bmgen
• gkathan: RT @ductourer Excellent article on intersection of #marketing and #bpm http://bit.ly/qfWdXb One we all can learn from #entarch
• vernaallee: RT @petervan: Kaliya Hamlin – @identityWoman: Importance of Public Legitimacy http://is.gd/NyqLmR < see also #Innotribe #sibos #identity > note use of mindmap as a good example of whole-enterprise scope #entarch
• BillIves: RT @deb_lavoy: RT @HarvardBiz: The Myth of Performance Metrics http://s.hbr.org/nxFLkH < great points #orgarch #entarch
• greefhorst: RT @krismeukens: “Vision = the picture of what you want your world to look like when you’ve arrived at the destination” http://bit.ly/pSbq8o by @LisaPetrilli >central requirement in real #entarch etc
• marciamarcia: Just like every story has a beginning, middle & end, organizational stories have a past, present & future. -@getstoried >note that an organisational story doesn’t nave an ‘end’… #entarch #bizstory
• ironick: best legal advice I’ve seen in a long time: F’ing Sue Me http://bit.ly/nwFhUA >v.useful ‘lawyer-free’ view of trust and risk… #entarch
• Bebela239: RT @Jabaldaia: RT @jorgebarba: Bingo! RT @frogdesign: Unpredictability is the new consistency http://bit.ly/nbET0W >”debunking four marketing myths of strategy, control, consistency and data” #bmgen #marketing #bizarch, also #entarch etc
• nickmalik: RT @jfcloutier: @bmichelson: No “Save as Architecture” in the File menu of PowerPoint?
• business_design: RT @alaindebotton: ‘Creative destruction’ such a nice theory till it happens to you. >too true…
• business_design: prev. change RT @alaindebotton: Half the fear of failure is of the judgement of false friends we feel compelled to impress but don’t like >likewise also too true…
• unorder: RT @clarityrules: RT @HarvardBiz – You Can’t Analyze Your Way to Growth – HBR – collaboration and innovation are key – the ‘soft’ stuff: http://s.hbr.org/mRFAMJ
• davidcushman: Is being a social business really something today’s CEOs aspire to? Being an #openbusiness That’s something to galvanise. >useful distinction… #entarch
• tetradian: [post] Enterprise Canvas as service-viability checklist http://bit.ly/p6sDw1 #entarch #bizarch #bmgen #bpm
• business_design: Love it! RT @claychristensen: The digital reinvention of the textbook – and how to create a disruptive product http://bit.ly/qUHiUU #bmgen
• business_design: Out of your comfort zone RT @MARTYneumeier: Innovation metric: The potential of a new idea is inversely proportional to its comfort factor. #bmgen
• gkathan: RT @mitjamavsar: Great article: Customer Journey Maps, #ux, #servicedesign: UXmatters http://bit.ly/n6Kbc5 >v.useful for value-network mapping in #entarch #bizarch etc
• gkathan: RT @WetterEdman: Service design: a conceptualization of an emerging practice. My licentiate thesis, downloadable @  http://lnkd.in/ri3uva #servicedesign
• business_design: Blogpost 7 Questions to Assess Your Business Model Design http://bit.ly/r6KY6O >insightful #bmgen #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @customerthink: The missing piece of the customer experience puzzle http://bit.ly/n2Dd9G #bmgen #entarch >satisfaction with ‘end-product’ as the missing-piece:  useful reminder on “from strategy to execution” etc
• pbmobi: Started a page to sketch some loose ideas about Enterprise Backbone Architecture at http://bit.ly/nMt5Oa #entarch inspired by @davegray >see also my Backbone articles, which came out just before and after Dave Gray’s – ‘Agility needs a backbone’ http://bit.ly/gLupH7 and ‘Architecting the enterprise backbone’ http://bit.ly/nk48mL
• rettema: WHY #ENTARCH DOES NOT WORK: If a lawful mechanism that we think is necessary but is insufficient to provide explanations for … (1/2) // .. for social systems, it is because the received concept of law (#ENTARCH) is not applicable to social context (2/2)
• tetradian: @rettema “Why #entarch does not work” – agree if EA tries to be ‘law’, but I use it more as a way to bring people together to set own rules
• tetradian: [post] EA metamodel: two questions http://bit.ly/r4fkmJ (thx @adraffin) #entarch
• IntegratedEA: Are you coming to Integrated EA 2012? http://linkd.in/pcXmaj #EA #Entarch >I strongly recommend this EA conference
• joemckendrick: Publisher open-sources content, urges mash-ups of offerings http://smrt.io/ozIp63 #bmgen #socmedia #entarch
• Bebela239: RT @laughingsquid: Sleepbox, a Tiny Sleeping Capsule http://owl.li/6vz9z >nice idea for tired travellers, also interesting #bmgen etc
• bergmart: Taking first steps in redesigning Extended Enterprise module for Masters of Informatics at Hogeschool Utrecht >more detail? – esp. on defn of ‘Extended Enterprise’?
• kvistgaard: The ostensible benefits of lanes (visualizing hand-offs and other… myths) is only making process modeling NOT process-centric #bpmn
• jdevoo: RT @maxjpucher: “The new magic formula is pull by resonance.” – Peter Kruse #ACM #BPM #complexity #socbiz http://tinyurl.com/6yxa9kt
• hebsgaard: Gartner: Sustainable Innovation Needs a New Breed of Innovators #gov20 http://bit.ly/opkqMI #innovation #entarch
• business_design: Nice to see @jnickhughes talk about the #bmgen Canvas on @SAI http://goo.gl/fKjgV >useful view/advice on #startup #bmgen #bizarch etc
• business_design: RT @HarvardBiz: How Entrepreneurs Find Opportunity http://s.hbr.org/nsagm8 >useful worked-example combining #bmgen and #sustainability
• DavidGurteen: Johnnie Moore: Change happens at the edge http://bit.ly/oTOU0g >another useful reminder #innovation #creativity #entarch // (also from Jonnie Moore via @DavidGurteen: Play, seriousness and solemnity http://bit.ly/qSGdqk )
• Cybersal: Guardian: “What is a Dutch anthropologist doing talking to bankers in the City of London?” Fascinating stuff – more to come http://bit.ly/qOdkJa #entarch #culture #deepmyth
• gkathan: RT @HarvardBiz Does Your Company Have a Culture of Trust? http://s.hbr.org/rlwWdP #entarch #society #economics
• SAlhir: RT @jaywilk: The Method Method Of Creating And Nurturing Amazing Corporate Culture http://awe.sm/5T22W #entarch #culture
• Bebela239: RT @BernardMarr: Survey shows, the Balanced Scorecard is ranked among the top 10 most used management tools http://ow.ly/6vbB5 #entarch
• Cybersal: RT @arusbridger: another guardian journalist told he’s behaved illegally ..writing down prices in #Tesco ! http://is.gd/VNFB8T <outrageous >really good example of how to create anti-clients… #bizarch #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @maverickwoman MIX: all too familiar story….corporate inertia, management “Big Brain” thinking and inability to innovate http://bit.ly/qZBvue >useful first-hand example (context is publishing) #entarch #culture
• thoughttrans: On strategy and vision http://ow.ly/6xgC8 >nice, tho Big Hairy Audacious Goal must not be used as Vision! #entarch

A useful back-and-forth around dynamics in enterprise-architecture:

• pbmobi: @tetradian Is mapping the structure of the enterprise really worth the effort. Is it not more useful to focus on the dynamics // Like in nature where form follows function => structure is emerging from the activities // I was just wondering while reading your articles, but my question is related to most or perhaps even all #entarch methods
• tetradian: @pbmobi “is it not more useful to focus on the dynamics?” – often, yes – which is why you can do both with Enterprise Canvas
• pbmobi: @tetradian But that addresses the structure of the dynamics not the real dynamics
• tetradian: @pbmobi “But that addresses the structure of the dynamics not the real dynamics” – good point… is important point, too… hmm…
• pbmobi: @tetradian Maybe #entarch should work more like the whole nervous system instead of just the like brain
• tetradian: @pbmobi more than just ‘the whole nervous system’ – there’s also the limbic system (feelings) etc – ie. all forms of information/drive
• pbmobi: @tetradian But senses (working with data from lots of sensors/receptors etc.) and their influence on sensemaking are “easy” to mimic
• ArtBourbon: RT @tetradian: @pbmobi “But that addresses the structure of the dynamics not the real dynamics” > this is an important discussion. Thanks.
• ArtBourbon: @pbmobi @tetradian re Service: you might want to look at Open Group ontology http://bit.ly/nzK4Qg – v detailed but not techie @theopengroup

A back-and-forth on various ideas about a generic EA-metamodel:

• adraffin: @tetradian Tom, the momentum that we (you) were building for your EA metamodel appears to have stopped. Have you concluded it won’t work?
• pbmobi: @adraffin @tetradian I “concluded” that the ideas are realizable but for another, broader than EA alone, purpose (more BIM-like)
• tetradian: @adraffin “have you concluded EA metamodel] won’t work?” – no, I just worked on other ideas for a few days – gimme a chance, guv’nor! // I’m working on many ideas at once (eg. Enterprise Canvas, ‘business anarchist’ etc) – can’t do all of it at internet speed! // still have work to do on Enterprise Canvas for now, will come back to metamodel soon – “do not adjust your set” etc?
• pbmobi: @tetradian @adraffin CMDB should be part of BIM-like Meta-Model to support “facilities management”, see http://bit.ly/pd5Li1
• tetradian: @pbmobi @adraffin metamodel: agree re “more BIM-like” at top end, also more CMDB-like at real-world end – yes, it _is_ a broad scope
• adraffin: @tetradian @pbmobi I think the work on the Enterprise Canvas will offer some more immediate wins for a wider audience.
• tetradian: @adraffin @pbmobi “ECanvas will offer more immediate wins” – yes – and also provide more context for why we need the EA-metamodel
• adraffin: @tetradian @pbmobi Yes, the need will become more and more apparent. // I’m slowly incorporating some of your ideas into my everyday work. I instantiated a version of your shared enterprise model.

Various notes/Tweets from an ‘EA Café’ gathering in Belgium:

• kdierc: Attending EA Cafe 12: Architecture with tangible business benefits presented by SD Worx at Namahn http://bit.ly/pgo31g #BAEA #EA #entarch // Very visual presentation by @AbOrigineMundi on our 12th #like // “one single user interface”, however avoid designing for “rubber” user – @AbOrigineMundi // Now on the use of story telling within the design // Storytelling introduces time & point of view aspect into design // storytelling scenarios provided detailed description of how people worked in daily operations. Eyeopener for most people  // Use future state scenarios to explore the blue print // Start from a basic pattern to design the UI & wireframes of app. Using future state scenarios to refine it. // “Important to have as-is documented in detail” – @AbOrigineMundi #lessonslearned | me: don’t agree, not necessary in detail // “working towards realistic TO BE instead of an ideal TO BE” – @AbOrigineMundi // lots of interaction in this #entarch cafe #baea #like #+1 // Seems like Belgium has complicated payroll rules, why does that not come as a surprise … #baea #entarch /cc @AbOrigineMundi // No business process analysis done on case brought by @AbOrigineMundi , missed change …
• itworks: 20% working efficiency improvement for SD Worx payroll consultants through the new customer-handling application but #wearenotthereyet // General question: how do you convince managers that things go wrong on the work floor ? @joannes suggests making a funny video // Serious questions for @AbOrigineMundi about why his payroll users still need 2 applications (while new app is not ready) // how do you keep a manager’s interest in process improvements ? @AbOrigineMundi suggests quick wins, others suggest clear milestones #baea

On the dire impact of ‘title-inflation’ from IT into the EA space:

• thoughttrans: @kdierc if I’m told 1 more time I’m overqualified even for mgmt consulting ea/biz arch work I’ll SCREAM! >me too…
• kdierc: @thoughttrans how can you be overqualified to do that type of work ?
• tetradian: @kdierc “how can you be overqualified” – because they still think EA or BizArch is just detail-layer IT…
• kdierc: @tetradian i understand… i still get java developer type of requests…
• tetradian: @kdierc I still get many requests from agencies for ‘EA’ work – they’re a bit shocked when I explain almost none of what I do is IT.. sigh..
• kdierc: @tetradian i understand… i still get java developer type of requests…
• tetradian: @kdierc “i still get java developer type of requests…” – yeah. hardest part is explaining what EA really _is_ – they still don’t get it
• kdierc: @tetradian they see architect, and hey… looks like it someone who does technical design

Narrative, knowledge-themes, creativity, leadership, in-person collaboration:

• SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis: The Downside of Passion – su.pr/2bSGYy via @innovate
• CreatvEmergence: Facilitation lessons via Playback Theatre l @vivmcw’s blog: http://bit.ly/qi0qwB #collab
• unorder: Just added the pdf version of the article on “Four story-based practices to foster insight” http://is.gd/BRmI95 #entarch #bizstory
• unorder: Strategic story presentation went well at AHRI. Here is my paper [PDF] http://is.gd/C1UEFK #strategy #bizstory #entarch
• rtolido: working a bit again on my homemade theory of psychology and IT roles: tell me what role you have in IT and I will tell you who you are.
• DavidGurteen: Nick Milton: Roles – the KM blindspot? http://bit.ly/ozgYIn #KM >roles need accountabilities #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: 10 Core Assumptions for the Creative Workplace – http://bit.ly/fdDFO1 >useful reminders
• joyce_hostyn: good post by @johnt on need to design for social gifting as part of building collaborative organizations http://bit.ly/p3LGAj
• CreatvEmergence: I see the real transformative power of improv in the principles. The principles are the roots, the practices the branches // Conventional paradigm: “I don’t know” is uncomfortable, humbling, awkward. Creative paradigm: “I don’t know” is the invitation to the party! #bizimprov #agile #entarch
• Bonifer: The work of the blade is not to sever, but to de-sever: http://bit.ly/rhL4Qh #gamechangers #boje #kungfu
• jdevoo: RT @justmcook “@smarterplanet Video: Are you a systems thinker like Peter Senge http://fb.me/Y7gjAlGq” << Short video interview my team put together #systemsthinking
• gkathan: RT @netmag: Why the doodle matters, by @sunnibrown. Doodling is a serious and useful tool: http://bit.ly/oXxvIx >nice: also ‘doodle’ defined here as “a marking that helps a person think”
• business_design: Passion RT @hackmanagement: Initiative, creativity & passion: Gary Hamel on hierarchy of human capabilities at work http://bit.ly/nUSXrt >video: “Passion trumps intellect”
• CreatvEmergence: RT @katemural 5 timeless insights on transcending fear in the creative process http://j.mp/prLiq5 via @brainpicker >useful: fear (esp. of failure) and self-doubt are occupational hazards in #entarch and related disciplines
• rubber_duck6072: Inspiring strategic optimism in a maturing workforce – to inspire the courage to renew & harness talent – Tom Stewart: http://bigthink.com/ideas/2860 >interesting… recommend
• DavidGurteen: Bill Ives: The Hidden Dangers of Overworking http://bit.ly/n4wUeT #orgarch #entarch
• getstoried: Great post on #storytelling, culture and organizational mythology http://bit.ly/oayFpU >recommend #entarch #bizstory
• SAlhir: RT @bizshrink MT @GinaAbudi: article on Vistage CEO blog: Virtual Workshops for #Executives #leadership #HR #smallbiz http://bit.ly/nzWEMr >brief how-to

Anything around the general theme of online-collaboration:

• DavidGurteen: The difference between social networks and communities of practice http://linkd.in/qPgtu1 #KM >useful discussion on LinkedIn
• getstoried: ATTN #transmedia folks: Interesting new book by @JoePine & @kimkorn on Multiverse of Experience Design – http://bit.ly/qHxhG4 #storytelling
• BillIves: RT @dhinchcliffe: The Enterprise Social Landscape Enters Teen Years by @rkoplowitz http://ow.ly/6st6j via @ITSinsider #e20 #socmedia #socbiz
• BillIves: via @rhappe By @jonhusband: Why E2.0 and Social Business Initiatives Are Likely to Remain Difficult http://bit.ly/q5OdY1 >recommend #e20 #socbiz #entarch
• getstoried: RT @Niemanstory Story, interrupted – why we need new approaches to digital #storytelling http://bit.ly/pfgKej #bizstory
• DavidCushman: RT @timoreilly: Important post from @zephoria: Guilt by algorithmic association http://bit.ly/pUgcFX I hope google and facebook are thinking hard about this >ouch… a really serious problem here… #society #culture #socmedia

IT-stuff, and, well, other IT-related stuff:

• greefhorst: RT @alcedocoenen: TOGAF Deliverables life cycle http://wp.me/p11teM-1q #itarch
• ironick: Is It Time to Rethink Your Enterprise Application Portfolio Strategy? http://bit.ly/n7gBBI #itarch #entarch
• kdierc: interesting, but which EA tool can simulate? RT @ZachmanIntl: Cloud Computing and #entarch by: John A. Zachman: http://bit.ly/nx3IF3 #itarch #cloud
• rtolido: Gartner: SAP, what about BPM…? http://goo.gl/BnCvS Fully agree, as SAP should be ‘process champions’ but are not pushing BPM. #bpm #itarch
• jdevoo: RT @nsjacob: What Matters: Talking back to your intelligent city http://bit.ly/ii9haT via @CivComs >> concerns over sensor vs censor
• jdevoo: RT @Openenergymon: Interesting post on dangerous prototypes about grid connected solar inverters: http://bit.ly/p9YcBe >’Dangerous Prototypes’ is (mostly) not about risk, but a website for open-source tinkerers and ‘makers’
• Bebela239: RT @marceloneves: InfoQ: Is Technical Debt Still a Useful Metaphor?: http://bit.ly/qFZ7Ke via @AddThis >short answer: “sometimes…” #itarch #entarch

Some of the many pointers to Open Group’s new business-oriented book on Cloud:

• theopengroup: Introducing our new book: Cloud Computing For Business http://nblo.gs/mU74G // Establish your enterprise’s #Cloud vision, understand risks & build ROI with newly published book by The Open Group http://wp.me/p1cB5i-gZ #itarch #entarch
• mskilton: Read The Open Group Blog announce new cloud computing book by @ArtBourbon  http://bit.ly/naZlk4 #ogcloud
• theopengroup: Excellent review by analyst David Norfolk of The Open Group’s “Cloud Computing for Business” book: http://ow.ly/6s4xf

The societal-scale big-picture, including economics, sustainability and the like:

• BillIves: NYT: Is Manufacturing Falling Off the Radar? http://nyti.ms/mR2GYh what happen to made in USA? >much the same applies in UK: ‘making money’ in a non-sustainable way has far greater priority than making anything useful… #entarch #bizarch #economics
• thoughttrans: RT @thisissethsblog: Seth’s Blog: It’s different here http://bit.ly/rqBDpS >someone who thinks a fair bit deeper about the nature of place: a good read…
• jdevoo: The Future of Government – World Economic Forum http://bit.ly/qDkovg via @IBMcidades >so a bunch of notoriously self-centred business-folk want to define the future of government? – right, yeah, sure…
• CreatvEmergence: RT @RitaJKing Thrilled to see creativity and imagination at the forefront of the new global economy and culture: http://bit.ly/5zBIG
• SystemsWiki: #stwg Article: Everyone loses in a ‘winner takes all’ society http://bit.ly/qURMqR >good example of well-meant analysis that doesn’t go anything like deep enough: in particular, failing to question the assumed primacy of ‘ownership’ over everything else…
• BillIves: RT @darwineco: Tech and tragedy: Imagining 9/11 in the age of Twitter http://bit.ly/n2aSw4 >recommend #society #tech #socmedia
• rettema: RT @tim_weber: Interesting fact of the day: India’s Tata is the UK’s biggest industrial employer (according to @economist) >interesting inversion of industrial-colonialism: “how are the mighty fallen” etc…?
• rettema: “@robertmeyer9: Only social system of capitalism (free enterprise) offers freedom to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” #doubtthat >yes, I greatly doubt that too…
• jdevoo: Sustainability and the Sociology of Civil Unrest http://j.mp/nZOZt2 >no apparent link to sustainability, but interesting on causes of and responses to civil unrest #society #culture
• oscarberg: The Flipped Classroom #infographic http://flpbd.it/7n19 via @rtkrum >v.interesting: learning online, ‘homework’ in the classroom – apply to other contexts?
• SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis: BBC News – Italian town Filettino declares independence http://bbc.in/o1o851v #futureofmoney #economics #culture
• Bebela239: RT @Tech_Law: Net Neutrality Regulations Will Soon Be In Effect http://bit.ly/n1rF86 (by @DWTLaw) #Media #Law >yet more insanity about the absurd concept of ‘intellectual property’…
• Eclectopedic: RT @went1955: “The purpose of studying economics is … to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists” — Economist Joan Robinson (via @TimHarford) >much the same has been said of lawyers… #culture #economics
• jdevoo: RT @EndOvershoot: When does humanity bust its nature budget for the year? http://ht.ly/6vR3k >> calculating #EarthOvershootDay #sustainability #economics
• SAlhir: RT @umairh The deeper issue: our institutions empower Machiavellian narcissistic sociopaths. http://bit.ly/nulyMR #entarch #society #culture

And those delightful oddities that – like me, I guess? – don’t quite fit into any comfortable category:

• unorder: The secret to overcoming jet lag http://is.gd/DdPISv >useful how-to…
• davidcushman: When they ask for your boarding pass at airport WH Smiths, u can refuse. Zero legal or tax need. They are just gathering product data.
• thoughttrans: RT @dockane: Lovin’ @gapingvoid ‘s cartoon for today! “You’re not insane…” http://eepurl.com/fLYiw +1
• Bebela239: RT @HuffingtonPost: A sight few have seen before…  http://huff.to/nuX047 NASA composite-photo of Moon’s north pole
• eatraining: 20 Hidden LinkedIn Tricks by Pamela Vaughan [PDF] http://lnkd.in/vJdWBW >useful…
• getstoried: A fascinating way of publishing a manifesto/telling a story online (in mini-blog chapters) – http://creatingthefuturetoday.com/
• thoughttrans: Oh No! What to do when you forgot to turn on your audio recorder! http://ow.ly/6urqw >practical stuff for video #bizstory
• jdevoo: RT @TomTague: Great collection of early 1940′s color Kodachrome photos of NYC  http://is.gd/0dkIsR

Enterprise-architecture and the kind of big-picture stuff that business will need:

• tetradian: [post] EA metamodel and method http://bit.ly/q2Qc5R #entarch (thx @ArtBourbon @pbmobi @adraffin @Robert_Phipps)
• gkathan: RT @jukkaam: Finding Opportunities in Business Model Innovation: business model attractiveness http://bit.ly/p8A4O2 #businessmodel #bmgen
• SAlhir: RT @toughLoveforx @rotkapchen Ideology “fails to move beyond the language of critique and domination.” whereas Myth can. < well said! >why vision etc is so important in #entarch
• gkathan: RT @Folletto RT @semanticwill: Service Design. Practical Access to an Evolving Field (pdf) http://t.co/4encckS #ServiceDesign >#entarch relevant
• SAlhir: RT @jukkaam Turn ur Expertise In2a Product:1.online course 2.membership program 3.train a trainer 4.license http://bit.ly/n2ZdlS #startup >useful #bmgen reminder to me and other independent-consultants
• SAlhir: RT @nowthink A process can’t be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move w/the flow of the process, must join it & flow with it. #bpm #entarch
• SystemsWiki: #stwg Organization | Latest thinking | Beyond Performance | McKinsey & Company http://bit.ly/qj2TsO >useful questions in the midst of the usual McKinsey sales-pitch #entarch
• SystemsWiki: Thinking about systems thinking http://slidesha.re/qJvmVP >somewhat ‘academic’, but useful nonetheless
• caro_buck: Gartner: “Rules are for losers” – This one really made me think http://bit.ly/nFNlTD >on the limitations of ‘business rules’ etc #bpm #entarch
• EAatWork: RT @pbmobi: The 7 Rules of Tubemapping with a clickable tubemap « Click on DOODLE in The storytelling process tubemap http://bit.ly/pm9LC4 #mindmapping
• SAlhir: RT @DesignThinkers cool movie: “Design the new Business” project described in http://bit.ly/q0Z0si #designthinking #servicedesign #innovation #bmgen #bizarch
• gkathan: economics of prostitution – very old businessmodel  #entarch http://bit.ly/prhAwO >unusual yet v.real example of #microeconomics #bmgen #bizarch etc
• business_design: RT @aaltoes: @sgblank is presenting @business_design ‘s Business Model Canvas. Starts off as 9 guesses, but should end as repeatable model. >”starts off as 9 guesses” – a really good way to summarise the inherent uncertainty of the #bmgen process!
• tetradian: [post] EA metamodel – a possible structure http://bit.ly/qhYkaU #entarch (thx @pbmobi @thoughttrans)
• SAlhir: RT @ErikPosthuma The Complete Guide To Freemium Business Models http://bit.ly/qoFd5f #bmgen #bizarch
• rtolido: Midsize companies benefit more from outsourcing than large ones. Surely, the same will be the case with the cloud http://bit.ly/oTyFhl >why proper #entarch is so important…
• business_design: Are we moving from “business administrators” back to “business creators”? If so, the #bmgen needs a “Masters of Business Creation (BMC)”… >good point…
• business_design: Big issue in big corps! RT @dscofield: .@business_design also “Business Enablers” vs. “Business Blockers”
• gkathan: RT @OndrejGalik: [Post] 3.Lesson Learned for #entarch: There’s no “The Company” http://wp.me/p1kuQj-5A >no company, only people
• krismeukens: @tetradian @gkathan @OndrejGalik disagree, there is not single stakeholder that will ever be perfectly satisfied in an enterprise // it is the emergent complex social system that is to be satisfied // “company” could be seen as that emerging whole // But if “company” is then the “organisation” or the “enterprise” is the question. I favor the latter. // #strategy is the balancing act of trading-off with respect to distinct desires of individual stakeholders
• gkathan: RT @business_inno Markets vs Customer-orientation. Discussion at http://bit.ly/nepI49 #bmgen #CustCentric >#entarch
• gkathan: RT @lowresolution: Collaborative service: How doing less can satisfy customers more (PDF) http://bit.ly/qWQNDM #servicedesign
• CreatvEmergence: Recipes for Innovation: 10 principles of design – http://bit.ly/pBPjRC via @davidholzmer
• Robert_Phipps: via @sylmobile: New Scientist: Quantum minds http://bit.ly/nnkCvN – a vector approach to cognition >business implications of ‘non-logical’ processes etc? – interesting… #entarch #strategy #collab
• tetradian: [post] EA metamodel – the big picture (and the small picture too) http://bit.ly/odlxfM (thx @pbmobi) #entarch
• rtolido: My navigation system disappointed me. Thanks for that. http://goo.gl/84z2b #slowtech >strong recommend #entarch
• thoughttrans: RT @thisissethsblog: Seth’s Blog: Talent and vendors http://bit.ly/pLnspk #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• oscarberg: Social Business: 6 Must-Have Apps for the Enterprise App Store http://bit.ly/nrlhhL #socbiz #km #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Start-ups in the networked information economy from @eskokilpi http://bit.ly/mWNQYp #economics #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• livsystems: Not sure how I missed this! Omnigraffle stencil for TRAK #EA framework: http://bit.ly/pmqla2 #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @tetradian: RT @livsystems: Not sure how I missed this! Omnigraffle stencil for TRAK #EA framework: http://bit.ly/pmqla2 #entarch <very interesting – appeals to my simple brain
• kvistgaard: RT @Robert_Phipps: Representing Trust – relation to information flow #entarch http://bit.ly/ol2edY – would love feedback +&- >a rarely-acknowledged yet key concenr in #entarch etc
• gkathan: RT @jukkaam: Business Innovation Funnel: 2nd part is execution of strategy: Apple’s success? http://bit.ly/pBchZY #innovation #strategy #businessmodel >focus of #entarch is from strategy to execution (and back again)
• aojensen: Excited to see my chapter on Government EA in the latest issue of Journal of Enterprise Architecture (Aug 2011). // Chapter titled: ‘Processes of Sense-Making and Systems Thinking in Government EA Planning’. Enjoy! #entarch
• chrisdpotts: “The Consumer Has The Technology, The Market Has The Process” New article on BPTrends. http://bit.ly/YEuRU #entarch #BPM #bizecology #CIO
• chrisdpotts: “It’s about the customer experience” #entarch | RT @laddonaut: Are #CIOs From Mars? If So It’s Time for #CMOs to Visit http://goo.gl/lDTRk
• chrisdpotts: RT @bmichelson: new post: Practical (profitable) Game Theory: Game theory is a branch of mathematics used to work out … http://bit.ly/orNgKW #hpio
• Bebela239: RT @Jabaldaia: RT @ebuise: Reputation, Design Thinking & Corp. Architecture http://bit.ly/qT4Bgt @DT_Network @NeiraSchlieman… (cont) http://deck.ly/~KTjgK #entarch
• business_design: If you haven’t seen it, check out the “Design the new Business” project: http://bit.ly/q0Z0si #bmgen
• chrisdpotts: An enterprise that understands IT consumerization develops an experiences-oriented architecture.  #RecrEAtion #entarch #CIO #CoIT // Each of us is an enterprise-of-one. #entarch #RecrEAtion
• Cybersal: Is this the future of education? Thought-provoking article from a top Chemistry textbook author http://bit.ly/pA6LKr #bmgen
• CreatvEmergence: RT @ariegoldshlager: Innovation happens at the boundaries of disciplines http://bit.ly/aTyyEL >bridge the silos! #entarch
• toddbiske: New blog post: Org Charts and Architecture Management http://bit.ly/pbWu3b #entarch >recommend
• business_design: ! RT @profhamel: Tomorrow’s mgmnt systems will need to value diversity, dissent & divergence as highly as conformance, consensus & cohesion #entarch
• taotwit: A comparison of EA for Traditional vs Lean http://t.co/LVjopoV #entarch
• DavidGurteen: By @elsua: The Social Enterprise and The Circular Economy http://bit.ly/r5rSTn >big-picture #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @cecildijoux Forbes: Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution http://goo.gl/lC1dD via @sameerpatel #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @PaulSloane The 10 best sources of future trend information http://dld.bz/9DUb
• SAlhir: RT @ManagementTip HBR.org: Put Ethics First, then Customers and Profits http://tinyurl.com/3wgyqgd >uh, HBR reminds businessfolk that they need reminding??
• tetradian: [post] What’s the point of this ‘EA-metamodel’? http://bit.ly/qWspbh #entarch
• DavidGurteen: By @robpatrob: Do good ideas emerge bottom up? No! http://bit.ly/ocafOd #KM >recommend #bmgen #entarch – note comment: “wisdom in the crowds, not of the crowds”, also “the wisdom is on the edge”
• BillIves: RT @rossdawson: RT @SmartCompany: Australia’s 25 best business blogs  http://bit.ly/qgroh7 some great ones
• vernaallee: A very sad loss. RT @snowded Max Boisot died yesterday afternoon. An intellectual giant, a polymath with immense humanity.
• oscarberg: “Social” has become the umbrella term for the adaptation of work & business to the creative economy >discuss, perhaps?
• business_design: If you haven’t seen our 2min. video intro to the Business Model Canvas http://bit.ly/m4DNC1 #bmgen >a useful intro, of course
• oscarberg: Blogged: Connectedness http://goo.gl/fb/GjY3Z #entarch
• practicingEA: RT @johnbattelle: “We shld think of revenue as the way people think of breathing…necessary for life but not the purpose of life” >yes, exactly… #bizarch
• greblhad: An Architect must be present in the now to be able to plan for the future
• SAlhir: RT @zapposxperience: Why you have to earn trust! http://post.ly/38eRy #entarch #bizarch #marketcycle
• gkathan: RT @rene041068: if you want to be successful in #entarch, don’t mention the term architecture, just use the skills #bizarch #itarch
• gkathan: RT @wecaredesign When we engage and put people and their needs in the centre, innovation begins. #servicedesign #collaboration #entarch
• gkathan: RT @WetterEdman: It’s here, it’s red and waiting to be read! Can also be downloaded @ http://hdl.handle.net/2077/26679 #servicedesign #designphd http://bit.ly/nTmjha >PDF of book (thesis?) “service design: conceptualisation of a practice”
• SAlhir: RT @flowchainsensei Agile,Lean and Kanban,Do They Change Management Thinking? http://wp.me/puetT-sz <not just mgt thinking, but all thinking! >good point: why doesn’t (can’t?) management thinking change?
• basvg: RT @FrankBaldinger: Architecture Principles limit design-space (degree of freedom). They don’t limit freedom of enterprise architects #entarch @greefhorst >important distinction…
• greefhorst: @basvg @Tr0ttr @frankbaldinger Focus on strategic direction and situational issues is needed in order to come up with relevant principles
• basvg: @greefhorst @Tr0ttr @frankbaldinger strategy is about keeping degrees of freedom, arch. about limiting them (in order to be implementable)
• business_design: RT @bill_fischer: Disruption hurts! As Print Book Revenues Plunge, E-Books Aren’t Making It Up http://zite.to/mRCXnp #bmgen #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia: The design of an organization is not the aesthetics of an org-chart http://bit.ly/qcTEKA #entarch #orgarch
• business_design: BMTBox for iPad: Best practices – Color coding (mini tutorial video) http://goo.gl/M2Ia3 #BMTBox #bmgen
• gkathan: RT @ioncuervasmons Strategy by Design http://ow.ly/6mjeN #designthinking #entarch >classic FastCompany intro by IDEO’s Tim Brown, from 2005
• tetradian: [post] Simplifying the Enterprise Canvas http://bit.ly/qCUCCS (thx @ayakovlev) #entarch #bizarch #bmgen #bpm

Quick back-and-forth on the ‘complicated/complex’ terminology:

• SystemsWiki: Simple vs Complicated vs Complex vs Chaotic – Agile Management NOOP.NL http://bit.ly/oZ2rno >nice summary from someone who didn’t know Cynefin #entarch
• ArtBourbon: @tetradian @systemswiki let’s not reinvent language. Check the OED on complex and complicated then restart the definition. // A good analyst makes complex comprehensible and manageable (not simple). Ditto complicated. // Chaotic is a) a natural phenomenon or b) the result of not managing complexity. I’ll shut up now.
• tetradian: @ArtBourbon re ‘complicated’ etc – very good points. (re ‘chaotic’ I prefer to use ‘unique’, because that’s the real issue: no rules)

A back-and-forth on impact and ethics in enterprise-architecture:

• rettema: @tetradian do you think #entarch #bmgen  applicants realize the impacts they have ? http://youtu.be/TQmz6Rbpnu0 >”the girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes” – teenage speaker from Environmental Childrens Org at United Nations
• tetradian: @rettema “the impacts they have” – for standard bmgen/entarch, no. Aim of whole-ent #entarch is to understand those impacts, and resolve
• rettema: @tetradian glad there is a positive answer from an architect, how about the intentions who hire them. #entarch a powerfull approach ? // I think there is an urge for #entarch #bmgen ethics, not for architectural principles.
• tetradian: @rettema “intentions who hire them” – in my experience there’s a huge need for real-EA, but also a huge ‘anti-want’ for it… // agree re “not [an urge] for arch principles”, but ethics/values is still a very ‘hard sell’, esp. in US-style businesses…
• rettema: @tetradian There should be an ethicall code among architects, withouth you cant have real EA,  its like a rationale without spiritual kompas
• tetradian: @rettema “there should be an ethical code among archs” – strong agree, in fact can’t be profession w/out that code
• rettema: @tetradian we miss the norms which architects need in a discourse about ethics #habermass, it reflects the unmaturity of this field.
• tetradian: @rettema “reflects the unmaturity of this field” – again, strong agree. I’m doing what I can to change that, but it’s an uphill struggle…
• pbmobi: @tetradian @rettema “The claim to be a profession is easily made.” http://bit.ly/p5R4l4 #entarch

A note on ‘ends and means’:

• greblhad: In music master silence, in graphics design master white space. In #entarch  master the balance of means and ends
• adraffin: @greblhad I think means and ends only applies to #bizarch. Maybe in #entarch mastering @tetradian’s “everywhere and nowhere as centre”

Anything to do with in-person collaboration, creativity, narrative and the like:

• SAlhir: RT @mcottmeyer The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations http://dlvr.it/k2rtv #interestingpost
• unorder: New post:  Four Story-based Practices to Foster Insight http://is.gd/BRmI95 // It’s interesting that there are many apocryphal stories explain insight: Newton’s apple, Eureka, Job and the mouse, Brunelleschi & the egg >recommend #bizstory
• SAlhir: RT @HeleneFinidori Nice! RT @Luis_AL:why your “command & control” system is less and less efficient… http://ow.ly/6kUuM (via @jonhusband)
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia RT @ralph_ohr: In case you missed it: Who Will Lead The Change? – http://bit.ly/pYksF3 #leadership #designthinking #collab #entarch
• thoughttrans: Even spontaneity has rules. >true: good point…
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia From diversity to the T shaped person – #OpenInnovation http://bit.ly/h22HyJ >skillsets in #collab #entarch etc
• oscarberg: Do Happier People Work Harder? by @TeresaAmabile: http://nyti.ms/qxHjhR Via: @work_matters @ ariegoldshlager < YES. #collab
• SAlhir: RT @umairh Real power isn’t the ability to demand, compel, or control. It’s the capacity not to have to. >agree with the first part, not so much with the second – prefer “power is the ability to do work, not ability to avoid it”
• vernaallee: RT @timkastelle: Our New York Times Piece on Evidence-Based Management: Uncut Version by Bob Sutton & Jeff Pfeffer http://bit.ly/qFcSPo
• DavidGurteen: Gary Klein: one possible way to succeed in expertise retention is through storytelling http://bit.ly/pTrHdm #KM #KMSG #storytelling
• DavidGurteen: ROCK – Retention of critical knowledge at Shell http://bit.ly/n3BGgc #KM #KMSG
• SAlhir: “Holding on to certainty creates more uncertainty.” RT @ErikPosthuma The age of uncertainty http://feedly.com/k/r0WNtT
• DavidGurteen: How organisations are prone to follow negative patterns and take bad decisions http://bit.ly/pSbM11 #KM #KMSG #entarch #strategy
• CreatvEmergence: How we Frame & Unpack Complex Problems – bit.ly/oQSZvn via @ComplexitySol @L_Union_Royale @cdnorman >Lakoff on metaphor
• DavidGurteen: RT @lmteng: You don’t have a #strategy if you don’t know what your goal is. #km #kmsg  /obvious but so often overlooked >for #entarch, also need clarity on diffs b/w vision, goal, objective
• gkathan: RT @Jabaldaia: Some good readings on #DesignThinking http://bit.ly/dPM9uH
• DavidGurteen: Nick Milton: A new look at mentoring in knowledge transfer http://bit.ly/qRQViv #KM
• DavidGurteen: Chris Brogan: THE MYTH OF REPUTATION http://bit.ly/qIM0xc >challenging: questionable in some respects, valid in others?
• hebsgaard: Decision Fatigue http://bit.ly/ok5fOK >recommend: key underlying driver in #entarch etc
• getstoried: Brilliant brand #storytelling from @Patagonia – http://bit.ly/oMWMEk < they reveal good & bad of sustainability story via @freerangestudio #bizstory
• getstoried: Good stuff here RT @askdebra Infographics for Nonprofits: The New #Storytelling http://bit.ly/qQpd9y #bizstory
• SAlhir: RT @GrahamHill CIO view: Ten principles for effective collaboration http://zd.net/ngffBC >useful, and not IT-centric for a change… #collab #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Are You Caught in Reflection? http://bit.ly/nF94aM >”too much reflection can be as dangerous as too much action”
• DavidGurteen: The myth of perfection (“Best”) is a byproduct of the industrial revolution http://bit.ly/ncQXR0 #KM >interesting implications for #entarch #bmgen #agile etc
• BillIves: post – The Gig Economy – Intrapreneurship – A New Style of Work http://bit.ly/pHJI9b thx @elsua #collab #entarch
• unorder: Just updated our post on “Four story-based practices to foster insight” http://is.gd/BRmI95 Are there other story-based practices you know? #bizstory
• BillIves: from MIX: Daniel Pink: Are you a Type A or a Type I? http://bit.ly/oQdJmI #collab #narrative
• gkathan: RT @chuckfrey: Using Creative Visualizations to Share Information: http://ht.ly/6p69h #infographic #visualthinking
• DavidGurteen: How children share – Davenport’s Kindergarten Rationale http://bit.ly/oYXIWg #KM #collab #culture
• DavidGurteen: Max Boisot 1943-2011 by @snowded http://bit.ly/qSrHZc /sad day >personal reminiscences on a key figure in #km etc
• SAlhir: RT @tdebaillon @raesmaa: Conversations That Share Tacit Knowledge http://bit.ly/fYCEva by @nancymdixon #collab

Social-media, intranets, user-experience and other things around online-collaboration:

• SAlhir: RT @davidrock101 Cultures see faces differently: http://bit.ly/qX6LMx #culture #ux
• oscarberg: People, don’t waste your blogging stuff on Google+. It’s a social silo. // I wanted to like G Wave because it was different. Buzz just annoyed me. Google+ I’m indifferent to.
• SAlhir: RT @KISSmetrics The Difference Between Design and Art http://kiss.ly/n4WUOP #ux #webdesign
• DavidGurteen: How to develop and implement a successful social media strategy http://bit.ly/qNHkje #KM #KMSG
• oscarberg: RT @jobsworth: Love it! “gamification” cartoon http://bit.ly/owWt5q via @tomfishburne >so agree re the gamification hype…
• DavidGurteen: Using social media to communicate on rural development issues http://bit.ly/oXxKRU #KM #KMSG #SocialGood
• SAlhir: RT @ErikPosthuma Design communicates your perception of your customer http://feedly.com/k/p5Yen5 >useful reminders… #ux etc
• gkathan: RT @business901 My Mind map of #Gamification presentation at Casual Connect Seattle http://business901.com/c6g #cocreation #servicedesign #entarch >some help towards disentangling the gamification hype
• SAlhir: RT @mich8elwu: Social media: #Communities inside #SocNetworks? Networks inside of communities? http://ow.ly/6lxjD on @MyCustomer
• gkathan: RT @wimrampen: I just posted: 5 Things You Need To Know About (Social) CRM (Definitions): http://wp.me/ptqv0-jA #scrm #entarch
• jdevoo: RT @amcafee: New post is up in wake of Dreamforce ’11 and some great recent writing: “Putting #e20 into context” http://bit.ly/qEODQW #w3
• oscarberg: Putting Enterprise 2.0 into Context http://bit.ly/oFEotD by @amcafee < Tying #e20 to operational processes & tasks >same article as above
• Bebela239: RT @forrester: Social influences many parts of the business. @NigelFenwick examines the social ecosystem: http://forr.com/q65qYy. #ciocmo11 #socbiz #entarch
• BillIves: RT @elsua: [Blog] How Fun and Creativity Can Shape Your Social Computing Guidelines and Policy http://kcy.me/4tpp #e20
• SAlhir: RT @dhinchcliffe John Hagel @jhagel on Empowerment, Management Fears, and Social Software in Business http://ow.ly/6oimW #socbiz HT @sly
• Cybersal: RT @roygrubb Boxes And Arrows: The Design Behind the Design http://zite.to/p52CoB #entarch < Good ideas for mapping customer experience >recommend
• BillIves: RT @deb_lavoy: Could E2.0 really mean Enlightenment 2.0? http://goo.gl/fb/h5N9P #collab #entarch
• oscarberg: If #socbiz / #e20 really was about technology & not culture, we wouldn’t be struggling as much as we do with adoption // The recipe for #socbiz / #e20 success is to understand existing culture & what buttons to push to start the transformation >exactly… same applies to #entarch etc
• oscarberg: Making Virtual Collaboration The Norm http://bit.ly/oXfyXO #collaboration
• getstoried: RT @brainpicker: Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative – excellent read by @psesinando http://j.mp/qzKSNe #bizstory
• jdevoo: #SD training through screencasting – Exploring Stimulus Policy http://j.mp/r4KVRO via @tomfid >> useful to see how to navigate bigger models
• SAlhir: RT @SameerPatel New Post: “Succeeding Unignorably” http://ow.ly/6qx6T #e20 #socbiz #collaboration >apparently ‘unignorably’ means “ignore everything else, we’ve made a monetary profit”? – oh dear…

IT-architecture, IT-development, IT-strategy, and generally anything to do with IT:

• joemckendrick: SOA repository, built quickly and on a low budget http://zd.net/otnbye #itarch
• simonbrown: RT @trisha_gee: What I learnt from @simonbrown’s Effective Sketches session http://bit.ly/ph2a4J #itarch #entarch >segues nicely to my current work on EA metamodels…
• basvg: new post in series on TOGAF implementation. Check out http://bit.ly/rcN9Z6 (crossposted at http://bit.ly/qwTeGj) Comments welcome! #entarch >good points about #TOGAF realism
• simonbrown: RT @DeveloperDame: Periodic Table of the (HTML5) Elements: http://bit.ly/d81HNO via @joshduck >useful reference #webdev #ux
• ArtBourbon: RT @mskilton: briefing analysts on the new Cloud Computing for Business book http://tinyurl.com/3pnlp7r #ogcloud <and I’m writing a blog about it #itarch #cloud
• theopengroup: Finding the value in SOA http://nblo.gs/mD2y7 >aka ‘sales-pitch for TOGAF9′…
• hebsgaard: No Need To Get Mad at Kundra: IT Cartels and Silos Are Here To Stay. #gov20 http://bit.ly/nk0Gca >sadly true…
• jdevoo: RT @tgoetz: How much energy does cloud computing save? Google crunches the numbers http://bit.ly/py754T >this isn’t true whole-of-system costs, but useful analysis anyway #economics #sustainability
• Bebela239: RT @VanHarenpub: Over 90 free whitepapers on #ITIL http://bit.ly/nujSP0 from Van Haren Publishing #svcmgmt #itarch #entarch
• Bebela239: RT @Technodad: Open Group’s Future Air Capability Environment group publishes Business Guide on use of FACE standards in acquisition – http://snipr.com/facebg // Future Air Capability Environment also posts second snapshot of the FACE Reference Architecture: http://snipr.com/282fyv
• Bebela239: RT @RealiRM: Gary Hardy: #isaca2011 COBIT 5 scope is enterprise wide – beyond IT… // #CobiT 4 Control objectives replaced by #COBIT 5 management objectives // Enterprise Architecture is in #COBIT 5 combines aspects of PO2 – Info Arch and PO3 – Determine Tech direction // #COBIT 5 and #ITIL 3 are complementary…not competing
• kdierc: RT @MartijnLinssen: How to queue – that is the question http://bit.ly/oVixY6 #entarch #entint #itarch
• ironick: Nice to see Dynamo in that list RT @newsycombinator 10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)  http://j.mp/qCRF7H
• practicingEA: @CurtMontash – ref http://bit.ly/o1dsOH, ur exactly right. #BigData <> MPP+DW. We think it is a new architecture and disruptive #itarch

The human big-picture, society, culture, sustainability and so on:

• SAlhir: RT @dcarli The End of Economics and Society as We Know It http://wp.me/pzsY4-Is >steady-state economics
• SAlhir: RT @Leadershipwatch Values, Virtues, Ethics & Leadership: 5 Reflective Questions http://soc.li/KbJPIHK via @SustainableB1z #ethics #leadbiz
• tetradian: BBC: John Gray: Marx wrong about communism but right about flaws of capitalism http://bbc.in/nzHzcb >important insights on #society #economics
• thoughttrans: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: Seth’s Blog: Back to (the wrong) school http://bit.ly/qQV3QI >recommend #society
• davidcushman: RT @lindegaard: “The more public an object or behavior is, the more likely it is to spread” + more insights http://on.wsj.com/ivUpgi #collab #entarch #society
• SAlhir: RT @timoreilly: GDP Is Dead as a measure of national progress: Will The World Be Happier Without It? http://bit.ly/nJAhiV #economics #society
• SAlhir: RT @jorgebarba @timkastelle A must-read post by @jhagel: Great Stagnation or Big Shift? The Answer Matters http://bit.ly/oh6N8S #economics #society
• SAlhir: RT @rossdawson The Internet of things will dwarf the Internet of people http://bit.ly/ppup6X >nice hype, but doesn’t factor in real-world issues such as power-supplies and network-instability…
• SAlhir: “The only real disability is to act irresponsibly, indifferent to the fate of others.” RT @NewPsychologist Abilities http://bit.ly/qqiUkP >well put…
• SAlhir: RT @umairh “Everyone described a life of constantly trying to scrape by.” http://nyti.ms/q3aodE on dumb growth, don’t miss. #economics #society
• ironick: These 3 infographics pretty much say it all when it comes to wealth inequality in America over the past century: http://nyti.ms/nVSj62 >do I hear the name ‘Ronald Reagan’? (or, in UK, ‘Margaret Thatcher’?) #economics #society
• hvaelama: Marketing 3.0 = Humanism 0.3.  Marketing is not going to contribute to our emancipation. http://bit.ly/pq6KZ5 // Marketing finds evermore efficient ways to emancipate us from our time and money.
• DavidGurteen: HBR: Capitalism Is Not “Doomed” http://t.co/vlnGKLz #society #economics
• joemckendrick: RT @WSJ There were 53% more U.S. job openings in July than 2 years earlier, but hiring was up just 9% on. Major skills gap? wsj.com/niCMiU >a skills-gap happens when there’s too much of a shift to automation, the ‘education-system’ focusses on out-of-date ‘training’ rather than literal ‘outleading’ of skills, and everyone wants everyone else to pay for it!
• joemckendrick: Patent pending: will looming patent office overhaul help or hurt innovation? http://smrt.io/pFBoVW >looks like a good way to make a bad system even worse…
• SAlhir: RT @umairh Was Marx Right? If you’ve read the post, check out the comments. http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/09/was_marx_right.html >see also the more considered and less inflammatory BBC article referenced above
• hvaelama: 7 steps to #newdemocracy by OttoScharmer http://bit.ly/nc84Vt #istagEU
• ironick: +1 @benhammersley: we r living thru greatest revolution ever seen in potential 4 human achievement & human connection http://bit.ly/pv3pV7 #society #culture
• CreatvEmergence: Yes-and is embedded in nature: the tree yes-ands the eco-system, the branch yes-ands the tree, the leaf yes-ands the branch
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl Emerging Global Mind http://bit.ly/r2hDSf via @tiffanyshlain RT @VenessaMiemis &Individuation ofIdeas http://bit.ly/nkncXp #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @rossdawson Innotribe conference in Toronto sounds great – see @petervan post on New Economies stream http://bit.ly/ouEvLT #society #culture #economics
• SAlhir: RT @evangineer @mgorbis The Greater Recession: America Suffers from a Crisis of Productivity – The Atlantic: http://bit.ly/oHcyuM >US data describing a generic ‘developed-world problem #economics #society
• BillIves: RT @robpatrob: RT @timoreilly: 75% of equity trading in the US is now algorithmic. http://bit.ly/nMn96h Welcome, robot overlords. >insanity of the first order… #economics

And, of course, that ever-memorable miscellany:

• SAlhir: RT @the99percent Nice! Major Movements in Philosophy as Minimalist Geometric Graphics: http://cot.ag/qAS7Xc >nicely done…
• aojensen: RT @softmodeling: 5 Great Web-based Modeling Tools http://bit.ly/noWc7Q #uml #model #tool #web >useful ‘Visio-like’ tools
• DavidGurteen: You have three balls that you are constantly juggling: your career, your health, your relationships … http://bit.ly/pPMVKS >only three?
• Cybersal: RT @roygrubb: The do’s and don’ts of Twitter hashtags http://zite.to/r4Kmwa
• kdierc: +1 RT @scottwambler: There’s a difference between certifiable and certified. You’re the former if you think the latter is meaningful. >my sentiments exactly…
• rettema: RT @AtulChitnis: 30 Truly Useful Mac Apps for Professional Writers http://zite.to/n5sg2L (I recommend @scrivenerapp)
• Bebela239: RT @neuinfo: well-designed interactive visualization & story of scientific process, evidence & human origins – http://bit.ly/pqhRNA via @Exploratorium
• aojensen: RT @saismo: CSS humor: .titanic { float: none; }

Enterprise-architecture and the usual ‘big-picture for business’ stuff:

• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: The 7 Rules of Tubemapping http://wp.me/Piayu-oC #entarch #storytelling
• gkathan: Perspectives of Enterprising, Architecture & Systems: Enterprising http://bit.ly/petnf1 #entarch >summary of a 4-day EA summer-school run by @gotze and others – recommend
• gkathan: RT @adraffin Capabilities – The Gap Between Intention and Outcome http://wp.me/p1c31m-4Q #baot #entarch #bizarch #capabilities #bpm #bptrends
• greblhad: Another way is to view the processes not as flows, but as limits to the variation of the system. #entarch
• jdevoo: RT @Eurovilles @semanticwill @tdebaillon: Stowe Boyd: The Architecture Of Cooperation & the new world of work http://j.mp/r0VstO #collab #entarch
• tetradian: [post] What I do and how I do it http://bit.ly/riJeqX [long] (for @adraffin) #entarch
• business_design: Promoting design methods in biz RT @DthenewB: Alex Osterwalder aka @business_design in our short documentary!!! http://goo.gl/czrfJ #bmgen
• business_design: Stop constraining your business model innovation by industry boundaries. Industry analysis is dying.. E.g. In what industry is Apple? #bmgen >explore extended-enterprise, not just industry #bizarch #entarch
• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: Tubemapping, #mindmapping and #sketchnotes are intertwined! http://t.co/j2uRNBj #entarch #storytelling
• davegray: Toward a theory of information relativity http://bit.ly/qe7ipb
• mikejwalker: Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture Version 3 http://bit.ly/rer35J #entarch #bizarch
• gkathan: RT @Ronald_G_Ross: Part 2 of our first-look notes on Zachman 3.0 … and a copy of the new graphic: http://goo.gl/CcqGj
• joemckendrick: Now, crowdsourcing can be embedded into applications: Call it “Crowdsourcing as a Service.” http://bit.ly/o52rM8 >”paid Fair Trade wages” – good – someone is taking the ethics issues seriously… #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @VisceralBiz @Annemcx: For Brands, Being Human Is The New Black @FastCompany http://bit.ly/nGvlnh #bizarch #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @drivenbywomen: Start-up Memoires: Lesson from Mr Jobs & Mr Nighy – http://ow.ly/1esD20 >fun to read and says something worthwhile #bizarch #bmgen
• business_design: The new landscape RT Industry is the wrong unit for strategizing. http://scr.bi/rd8HSf Competition will be around BMs #bmgen
• jdevoo: RT @dcarli: Internet Waste: The Material Side of Digital http://wp.me/ps5iI-fj #greenit #itarch #entarch
• tetradian: [post] How not to define business-architecture… http://bit.ly/p0mITZ #entarch #bizarch #togaf
• SAlhir: RT @GrahamHill RT @Competia: Bloomberg: CEO Guide to Business #gamification http://awe.sm/5RlMy RT @beingniche >perhaps an overdose of hype-bandwagon, but useful anyway #bizarch #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto The Case Against Radical Change http://bit.ly/narQrn >recommend – “the dirty little secret of of revolutionary change is that it requires an evolutionary mindset” #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• taotwit: Back from my travels and thinking about Event Processing (EP/CEP) as the Centre of Gravity for EA #entarch >more, please?
• taotwit: @tetradian  Starting to make notes now – good  ref source here: http://bit.ly/o2PYZA – like the authors’  PC-Cubed model  #entarch
• Cybersal: SO much nicer to cycle to my local bookstore  http://tgr.ph/oC1iJz to pick up a book, than just do the 1-click thing. Must do it more often >purported ‘simplicity’ is not the only factor in a viable business-model #bmgen #bizstory
• Eclectopedic: Blimpie greenhouse has better production: http://cnnmon.ie/poEaX1 #innovation #systems #bmgen #entarch
• gkathan: RT @chrisonea: RT @thebrandbuilder: ‘Four Essential Business Lessons from Gordon Ramsay’ http://bit.ly/oT94Xk #bizarch #entarch #cio #cto
• jdevoo: RT @orgnet: Using “circle of influence” diagrams to understand how favor flows through networks http://bit.ly/rj5C0r >the #entarch of politics: modelling ‘deniable’ indirect influence
• SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis What is #Gamification , Really? http://bit.ly/qY8avB via @syamant #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @mcottmeyer Lean Startup: It Rocks Far More than Agile http://dlvr.it/jVlmW #interestingpost #bmgen #bizarch
• practicingEA: RT @SmartDataCo: Social Innovation – “Breakthrough innovation is rendering established business models obsolete” http://soc.li/wm11SrZ
• SAlhir: RT @flinchbaugh Who is really running the business? [Guest Post by Jauna Werner] http://ht.ly/6hu6o >good points on #bpm #entarch in relation to #lean etc
• gkathan: RT @petersjolin An interesting Gartner analysis of the various #entarch modeling tools on the market http://bit.ly/pfG2nc
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: Capability: What you think you can do & Process: How you think it should be done (AB modification: something you can do with it. Both valid)- Experience: How you think you have done it #entarch
• vernaallee: Value network foundations:  theory of value conversion http://bit.ly/hJsrLK and research base: http://bit.ly/hJsrLK #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: the logline mantra WHO-GOAL-OBSTACLE http://bit.ly/nT6qfO >something ALL architects and designers need to understand #entarch #bizstory
• greefhorst: RT @ZachmanIntl: New Zachman Framework™ now available at http://Zachman.com ! Check it out, register to get a copy! #entarch
• bartleeten: RT @PatrickSteyaert: HBR: Rita McGrath: Learning to live with #complexity http://bit.ly/o1seNg; no mention of #cynefin ?
• greblhad: Slowing down but keeping the pace up on the OODA loop can be done by adding the R for Reflection which gives ROODA. #entarch
• tetradian: [post] IT-centrism, business-centrism, capability, process http://bit.ly/nimdLz #entarch cc @dougnewdick @alecsharp @krismeukens @seabird20
• SAlhir: RT @intmf: Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? – When Culture fights strategy – Change; how r u going to react http://bit.ly/g8JADf
• SAlhir: RT @GrahamHill: treasure chest for games/service designers…Stanford Persuasive Tech lab http://is.gd/v7bkxZ #gamification #servicedesign
• business_design: Check it out: The Business Model Canvas explained (video) http://goo.gl/VDMqI #bmgen >useful quick overview
• CreatvEmergence: Greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy, engaged workforce l HBR http://bit.ly/qkcJHE RT @CoreyBlake9000 @MarionChapsal #cibc11
• CreatvEmergence: Human-Centered Design – IDEO’s innovation guide http://bit.ly/l3If5H via @VenessaMiemis @thepaperbicycle @onemangotree >definitely a classic for NGOs etc
• bergmart: EA at Shell: Urban renewal instead of cityplanning >great metaphor for #entarch etc
• gkathan: RT @OndrejGalik: [Post] Long forgotten inner motivation http://wp.me/p1kuQj-5w, perhaps for #entarch?
• kvistgaard: It seems you are perceived as eccentric when you are not x-centric in #entarch (x=IT, business, information…) >ouch… true…
• oscarberg: RT @Robert_Rose: Why Business Vision Matters More in This Economy http://bit.ly/pl4Kav via @LisaPetrilli #entarch #bizarch
• taotwit: Developing material on the applicability of differing architectural styles for integration including SOA/WOA/EDA/BPM // Developing ideas on creating the conditions for successful EA #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @johnniemoore: Platitudes rendered in coloured triangles joined by arrows etc are still platitudes. >ouch… #entarch etc
• getstoried: Interesting debate in this post from @kanter – Nonprofit Stories as Data – http://bit.ly/mOLMvJ #storytelling via @simversity #bizstory
• nickmalik: [post] When IT Architects describe Enterprise Architecture to other IT Architects, mistakes abound http://bit.ly/qJakJl #entarch #togaf
• vernaallee: RT @maryadamsICA: RT @careersherpa: Intangible capital and Results oriented workplace by @karla_porter | Human Capital & New Media http://bit.ly/oLb8fE #collab #orgarch #entarch
• vernallee: RT @lisakimball: What makes a network work?  http://bit.ly/oTBUqF #collab #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer Edgar H. Schein’s Model of Organizational Culture – http://bit.ly/ovYnrA >artifacts, espouse values, assumptions #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @mashable Comic books have finally gone fully digital – http://on.mash.to/owYjeD cc @CoreyBlake9000 #bmgen #bizarch
• rettema: RT @bulentongun: #Infographic Of The Day: How To Calculate A Customer’s Value http://zite.to/oNsiPT #SocialMedia #SMM >how to reduce a customer to nothing more than a money-metric… perhaps not such a good idea? #bmgen #bizarch
• rettema: RT @CharlesCain_PMP: Need a visual indication of the long term roadmap? Check out what Michael put together at http://ow.ly/6fkji. Great implementation! >good illustration of why/how a paper map is more impactful (valuable) than a purely digital one
• gkathan: RT @Master_OBASHI: 1 day, you’ll look back and wonder how you ever managed without understanding how data flows around the biz http://ow.ly/6fXwt #CIO #Entarch
• DavidGurteen: Connections and chaos http://bit.ly/oSGbRZ #KM >good points from Esko Kilpi and Johnnie Moore #orgarch #entarch #strategy
• DavidGurteen: The universe is made of stories not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser http://bit.ly/81qtHy >applies especially to #entarch etc
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia If I want that my idea becomes #innovation, I should tell a story! http://bit.ly/eLLExS #storytelling #strategy #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto The Passion Economy http://bit.ly/fiTTu0 #entarch #economics

A quick back-and-forth between Chris Potts and Nick Malik on ‘Black Swans’:

• chrisdpotts: Black Swans & project failures.  Concerned that it’s IT-centric. Greatly dilutes the insight. All investments can have Black Swans. #CIO // Because IT is everywhere, many problems manifest themselves itself in IT. The strategy trap is fixing the ‘IT problem’. // Hypothesis: it’s easier to detect & fix Black Swans in construction vs business change, because we can see, physically, what’s being built.
• ironick: @chrisdpotts hmmm…I thought a Black Swan, by definition, CANNOT be detected, ie it MUST be a surprise. // Because information connects everything, most problems are information problems (even if they are not understood as such)… // …only to a lesser degree are information problems IT problems.
• chrisdpotts: More Black Swans, in this week’s Economist.  Here referring to potentially positive, disruptive, ideas. http://econ.st/nqIkI0 #CIO #entarch #bizarch

A fairly extensive back-and-forth around my ideas for better support for whole-enterprise architecture in EA toolsets:

• tetradian: [post] Back to the roots for EA toolset metamodels http://bit.ly/qnrzNX #entarch
• tetradian: [post] More detail on EA metamodel http://bit.ly/q1uMlx (thx @Cybersal) #entarch
• pbmobi: @Tetradian » Back to the roots for EA toolset metamodels http://bit.ly/oixIbO << but not One Toolset to Rule Them All! #entarch
• pbmobi: @Robert_Phipps @ArtBourbon @tetradian #entarch as a Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System (PGNCS)! http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/PGNCS
• pbmobi: @ruthmalan http://bit.ly/nSNsKV with “When Are Diagrams Useful?” << @tetradian when exploring new #entarch toolset territory
• pbmobi: @tetradian maybe we need something like a sketch recognition system http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/EG-SBIM-05.pdf in #entarch (too bad I can’t program) // “Coordinative artifacts in architectural practice” bit.ly/nDYUJp looks like the #entarch toolset quest // bit.ly/oRdtf1 Meta-model Differences for Supporting Model Co-evolution << maybe interesting? @tetradian
• pbmobi: #entarch join @tetradian and The Fellowship of the Enterprise Architecture Meta-Model! http://bit.ly/nQIV2k
• adraffin: @tetradian I’ve made a more detailed comment on your last [post] “More detail on EA metamodel”. Not sure if it’s helpful or not #entarch
• ArtBourbon: @tetradian @adraffin @pbmobi posted comment on constraints and access levels re meta-model http://bit.ly/nmgagp #entarch
• jeromebenois: just pushing #TOGAF Designer on GitHub on cc: @tetradian https://github.com/ObeoNetwork/TOGAF-Designer #obeodesigner #Modeling #entarch
• adraffin: @ArtBourbon Thanks for the reply comment on Tom’s (@tetradian) post.  http://bit.ly/nmgagp #entarch   very thought provoking
• pbmobi: The Fellowship of the Enterprise Architecture Meta-Model needs a meeting place http://wp.me/Piayu-pq @tetradian #entarch
• pbmobi: Is “the EA Meta-Model that binds them all” our last road to reality?  @tetradian » More detail on EA metamodel http://bit.ly/nmO75q #entarch

Leadership, creativity and all manner of other stuff around in-person collaboration:

• DavidGurteen: Johnnie Moore @johnniemoore has been thinking about robust uncertainty http://bit.ly/ojqGw6 >recommend! – “confidence is not certainty but the willingness to act even when we’re not certain”
• CreatvEmergence: Principles For Creative Leaders by @johnmaeda – http://bit.ly/ojVzmr #leadership
• CreatvEmergence: RT @ariegoldshlager Engaging Emergent Customers in New Product Development: http://bit.ly/7CjrmB #collab #bmgen
• SAlhir: RT @AffirmationSpot: Comfort zones are expensive. They are rented at the cost of lost dreams.
• SAlhir: RT @LeadrshpAdvisor: From the archives : The Performance Improvement Myth http://tinyurl.com/3b3pobm #leadership #LeadBiz #HR
• CreatvEmergence: Yes! Play needed to create new systems and structures. Great interview w/@theplayethic – http://bit.ly/jXV9Pd
• CreatvEmergence: Nature builds incubation time into the creative birthing process – great lesson for creative teams and orgs. #innovation #bmgen
• joyce_hostyn: “Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” Jean Luc Godard > 40 Storyquotes that will shake your mind  http://slidesha.re/ppymlT
• CreatvEmergence: What’s an idea? l BrightNow http://www.brightnow.eu/articles/show/whats-an-idea
• vernaallee: RT @timkastelle: RT @jonhusband: Corporate Culture  http://bit.ly/p0hjNh grows out of dynamic 2-way flow of knowledge, trust, credibility & focus on results
• DavidGurteen: Most of us know the answers to our problems most of the time deep down http://bit.ly/nMEsW4 from @euan
• SAlhir: RT @JesseLynStoner Great advice for busy people: Respecting Well-Being http://tinyurl.com/3zpm3vt via @mjasmus
• DavidGurteen: Are You In The Conversation Business? by @andrewarmour http://bit.ly/nyMitc #conversation #dialogue #entarch #bizstory
• CreatvEmergence: SlideShare : 9 Reflections on leadership – ppt http://slidesha.re/glQiDX via @maverickwoman
• vernaallee: The Promise and the Reality of Collaborative Innovation | InnovationManagement http://bit.ly/pKNUWp #collab
• BillIves: great post by @jonhusband – Leading and Managing (Networked) People Must Evolve http://bit.ly/nCwZDj
• vernaallee: RT @lexschroeder: “The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.” -Meg Wheatley
• unorder: (in creating strategy) The diagnosis for the situation should replace the overwhelming complexity of reality with a simpler story – R Rumelt #bizstory
• simonbrown: RT @Carnage4Life: Working on a presentation for a conference talk. My motto; every slide is a conversation starter. // RT @KevlinHenney: @simonbrown @Carnage4Life I would add a corollary to that motto: include at least one slide that’s a conversation stopper.
• thoughttrans: The Magic is in the Space Between Conversations http://bit.ly/om2QjJ via @charliegilkey >nicely put…
• SAlhir: RT @KareAnderson: + Fruitful collaboration builds trust: RT @lorievela #Trust leads to #Collaboration http://ht.ly/6ipE1 #cooperation #risk
• CreatvEmergence: Stowe Boyd: Re-thinking workspaces and the architecture of cooperation – http://sto.ly/royc5b via @MitchAnthony @HeleneFinidori #collab #orgarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @fmheir: Do we need defined hours of work any more? http://bit.ly/qig5en in Holland we call this “the new way of working”; it’s a success #collab #orgarch #entarch
• BillIves: RT @mijori23: Do we need defined hours of work any more? By @mathewi. http://bit.ly/n7qkCK
• thoughttrans: @tetradian I thought you would enjoy this article title http://ow.ly/6knDO >”a business is only as good as its conversations”
• DavidGurteen: RT @yvwong: RT @maish: A list of knowledge sharing methods, http://bit.ly/aphcrk #kmsg
• DavidGurteen: Best practice conversations vs. requirements http://bit.ly/rudkTF #KM #conversation #entarch
• DavidGurteen: We can no longer see our minds as independent and separate but as thoroughly social. http://bit.ly/oNNHSS #collab #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Rather than asking how we do things, we need to learn from how we think about things. http://bit.ly/rudkTF #KM #conversation

Social-media, intranets and other themes around online-collaboration:

• JosvanOosten: Seth Godin: Form design http://dlvr.it/j8SLY >”creating a form is like hosting a party for words” – nicely put…
• oscarberg: RT @webtechman: 43 Use Cases For Social Business http://bit.ly/qcRlIB Great details for Enterprise 2.0/3.0 by @rwang0 via @dhinchcliffe #socbiz
• oscarberg: RT @johnstepper: “Don’t retweet the revolution” – http://wp.me/p1iKWV-1N >”what problem are you trying to solve?” – solid sense on #e20
• unorder: Sarah has been doing some great blogging over at the Zahmoo site http://is.gd/Pxs52D & http://is.gd/AibH2K #storytelling
• oscarberg: Reclaim Blogging – On Why Your Blog Still Is Your Best Personal Branding Social Tool http://flpbd.it/g1mk by @elsua < +1 +1
• ArtBourbon: RT @johnniemoore: RT @euan Blogging about bollocks free business blogging. http://bit.ly/ohOvah <– So much I agree with here. >applies as much to #entarch, too
• BillIves: post – Designing for Mobile Collaboration http://bit.ly/oIEHM4 >bandwidth and connectivity remain significant problems that are too often ignored
• Bonifer: Eastern v. Western emoticons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Common_eastern_examples (thx2 @sloane @tdavidson) >useful #ux note #culture
• SAlhir: RT @dhinchcliffe Reading: Sorry Gartner, Here’s The Real Magic Quadrant For SCRM http://ow.ly/1wsgmP #socbiz #scrm
• SAlhir: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth’s Blog: Should the New Yorker change? http://bit.ly/qzk9dZ >interesting challenge for writer-publishers/bloggers…
• oscarberg: RT @johnnewton: From GigaOm: How to embrace remote meetings http://bit.ly/po1ZiN >practical how-to #collab #e20
• oscarberg: Designing a Less Dysfunctional Knowledge Management System http://bit.ly/qTpGO9 #KM #SocBiz #e20
• vernaallee: RT @DavidHolzmer: Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age | Brain Pickings – http://bit.ly/ozW4DQ #visualization #ux

IT-architecture and other IT-related stuff:

• aojensen: RT @eaStrategy: OASIS releases latest draft of ‘foundation of modern SOA understanding’ http://dlvr.it/j6Nky #SOA #itarch
• theopengroup: PODCAST: Exploring business-IT alignment: A 20-year struggle culminating in the role and impact of Business Architecture [transcript] http://nblo.gs/mgX8W >an Open Group view of #bizarch, literally as ‘everything not-IT’… IMHO exactly how not to do #bizarch… oh well… #itarch #bizarch #entarch
• jdevoo: RT @Sensorpedia: Congratulations @vladounet and @domguinard on PhD defense http://j.mp/nPq8r5 >> Web of Things Application Architecture
• AussiMike: RT @googledownunder: A new video gives an under-the-hood look at how @google search works, direct from our engineers: http://goo.gl/J6326
• practicingEA: RT @Ravi_Shankar_: Philip Russom @prussom on “The State of Multi-domain #MDM” – Very True! – http://bit.ly/ohpVMH @InformaticaCorp #itarch
• jdevoo: Copenhagen Wheel Project http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/ #citizensensing (and workout while you’re at it)
• jdevoo: ISO 50001 http://j.mp/mWyjsZ #ems #csr #energy #greenit #entarch
• ironick: #infographic #evolutionofweb: lists HTML, HTTP, CSS, etc. but omits URL! Tragic #fail. URL is most important of all http://bit.ly/ohf2zM
• simonbrown: “Effective Sketches” – PDF of the slides… http://bit.ly/rtvyQG (~85MB) #effectivesketches #skillsmatter // “Effective Sketches” – @evernote notes … http://bit.ly/p6RoWE (~34MB) // “Effective Sketches” – online view of the slides … http://bit.ly/obrsp2 // As I said @skillsmatter, if you have better names for the diagrams, feel free to tweet them … // Here’s a short essay about “C4″ (context, containers, components and classes) http://bit.ly/fD26Ic // A little care does help… RT @seidewitz: @simonbrown Drawing diagrams is a major way I communicate. Amazing how a little care helps a lot. >recommend #entarch #swarch
• jdevoo: #FF some #citizensensing building blocks @ushahidi @pachube @sen_se @seeclickfix @swiftriver @Openenergymon @open311 @TeamKasabi @sourcemap
• simonbrown: Video -> RT @skillsmatter: Just published: last night’s talk by @simonbrown on #Effectivesketches @skillsmatter: http://bit.ly/qzOyda #swarch #entarch
• ironick: Perhaps something useful will come out of Oracle v Google: the final nail in the coffin of attempts to copyright APIs http://bit.ly/r5AI3f #itarch #society
• simonbrown: Added a link to the video of my Effective Sketches talk … http://bit.ly/obrsp2 #swarch #entarch

Economics, sustainability, politics and the societal big-picture:

• DavidGurteen: Blog Post: Conversation down the pub with Theodore Zeldin http://bit.ly/pOannf #culture #society #narrative
• Bebel239: RT @dtapscott: Unbelievable that the UK would contemplate mimicking Iran, China,  worst: “In UK, a Meeting on Limiting Social Media.” http://ow.ly/6dfoo >oh the joys of the proto-police-state… #society #culture
• jdevoo: RT @rossdawson: Great 1964 BBC Video of Arthur C. Clarke predicting: spot on re distributed work, completely wrong on cities http://bit.ly/nhRpI1 #futures
• jdevoo: RT @pepnet: The City As A Social Platform #opengov http://bit.ly/pVQkRq
• SAlhir: RT @Billy_Cox Forgiveness is a decision… It’s not an emotion! #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer Defining Conscious Capitalism http://bit.ly/nvBFoA #society #culture #entarch #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @ken_homer In the mythological view of things, each person is a story embedded in a soul, around which a body grows [6min video] http://youtu.be/yhZ3Iqx4yro >recommend
• SAlhir: RT @ken_homer The world is made of stories: http://huff.to/oRzmrb >brief article introducing above video
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl The Evolution of Generosity http://econ.st/mZb6CK RT @ddrrnt What is love? http://econ.st/mZb6CK RT @howardjones
• joyce_hostyn: good paper on how assumptions & language of economics shape how we think about & design social & organizational world [PDF] http://bit.ly/qAVeG5
• Cybersal: RT @JPBarlow: Cheney’s biography makes it clearer than ever that W’s greatest gift to US was not dying in office. >yikes…
• gkathan: RT @manfredbodner the local-global flip….deep think with Jaron Lanier http://bit.ly/qITkRy >#entarch #society
• CreatvEmergence: I think the emerging work paradigm is about integrating aliveness with making a living #economics #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @changeist “We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,” http://wapo.st/pqkkTH >largely-secret and only barely accountable wing of US military – where are the world-scale checks and balances to prevent misuse and abuse of this force – especially where the force is misused to ‘protect US interests’ at the expense of the rest of the world? #society #economics
• SAlhir: RT @stoweboyd Rise Of R?nin and Liquid Economy http://sto.ly/o8vJy4 why we are headed for an economy dominated by short-term freelance work* #society #culture #economics
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer “Invisible Hand” Friday (and the Theory of Moral Sentiments) – Ideas Matter – http://bit.ly/oS88sf

All manner of things that are about, well, all manner of other things:

• Bebela239: RT @AlgonquinBooks: <3 <3 <3 RT @maudnewton David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” as a children’s book: bit.ly/prMOV2 (Free PDF; via MeFi)
• JosVanOosten: RT @slowtech: Pioneering Ants Challenge Self-Organization Assumptions:  Some worker ants are more equal than others. As with o… http://t.co/HCUpnLU
• craighepburn: Awesome post! 6 stages of human evolution – Things to keep in mind when you wanna kick some ass http://post.ly/31NAo via @RiccWebb
• EAatWork: RT @pbmobi: Wacom Inkling smart pen does drawing the old-fashioned way http://engt.co/oji1kl via @engadget Smartphone&share photo from sketch seems easier >yes… nice, though…
• aojensen: RT @christianwig: Great overview of #opensource > 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications: http://bit.ly/mZIQq1 | Datamation
• thoughttrans: Want to learn more about how you can use video to promote yourself? http://dld.bz/YxYp
• CreatvEmergence: Great video of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla – http://youtu.be/DaxD_4n3KMg
• craighepburn: #Nokia #Maps finds a new home on iPhone http://bit.ly/oW1Ey3 >v.fast browser-based mobile maps

Enterprise-architecture, strategy and all the ‘business big-picture’ stuff:

• SAlhir: RT @Annemcx RT @sajidahinakhan RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilisation http://youtu.be/l7AWnfFRc7g via @youtube #entarch
• FlorianQuarre: US energy usage: Well rendered dataViz, plus striking fact for me: 58% of energy out there is lost http://goo.gl/hSgCd
• business_design: ! RT @sachin_joshi: M-Pesa is the  main source of revenue for Vodafone in Kenya; successful #bmgen example of at BOP http://post.ly/2wwa5
• gkathan: RT @Tim_Flux What the hell is ‘Business Alignment’: http://wp.me/p1dcPl-1F #entarch
• bergmart: Interesting paper by Ralph Foorthuis assessing value of EA [PDF] http://bit.ly/otCmbt #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @agilestrategy Strategy as model and guiding business rules http://bit.ly/rkq5yT #strategy
• SAlhir: RT @jukkaam The Value of an Existing Customer http://bit.ly/ps9Ve7 #strategy #customer #sales #bizarch
• gkathan: writing for visual thinkers – sample chapter – http://bit.ly/nSablr >#entarch toolbox
• jdevoo: RT @frogdesign: What successful companies and cities have in common http://bit.ly/q9rh5t
• DavidGurteen: Trust is the bandwidth of communication. Karl-Erik Sveiby http://bit.ly/8spWu #entarch
• Bebela239: Guide to Greener Electronics | Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/electronics/Guide-to-Greener-Electronics/ >good example of a ‘natural anti-client’ issue in #entarch
• SystemsWiki: #stwg Hard and Soft Systems Thinking Approaches [PDF] http://bit.ly/mW6thI >useful 5pg summary of differences
• greblhad: Interesting work on value modeling http://neffics.eu/2011/05/vdml-and-cmmn-submissions/ >technical specifications for value-delivery metamodel and description-language #entarch #bizarch
• bergmart: Forrester predicts as the ultimate cloud business model: full cloud broker who is able to dynamically source all kinds of cloud resources #itarch #cloud
• vernaallee: Love this gem from Nick Holt – Value is neither the subject nor the object, but the relationship between the two
• DavidGurteen: Between the subject and the object lies the value. Robert M. Pirsig http://bit.ly/8X47cY
• gkathan: RT @chrisonea Post – Developers vs Architects: Cage Match  http://www.chrisonea.com/2010/07/16/dev_vs_arch/ #entarch #bizarch #itarch #cio #cto >excellent read
• CreatvEmergence: Creative Thinking: Diverge and Converge – on my blog  http://bit.ly/oLJbse >useful infographic #entarch
• greblhad: Is it not strange that the architecture of systems is generally thought of/viewed as parts instead of wholes >by people who don’t understand architecture but like to think they do, yes… – this is one of the fundamental problems in communicating #entarch etc
• CreatvEmergence: HBR: Embracing Complexity http://bit.ly/p6SOwC via @LisaKimball >good HBR-style summary #entarch
• business_design: time for management & organizational innovation RT @Acluytens: 81 percent of workers feeling overwhelmed or burnt out- http://bit.ly/pvZAlN #orgarch #entarch
• aojensen: RT @CharlottePell: John Seddon new article – Lessons from Blair’s years of delivery – On Line Opinion – 24/8/2011 http://bit.ly/nEAUIM #entarch #change
• chrisdpotts: Philanthropy, or charity | RT @HarvardBiz: EBay’s Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change http://s.hbr.org/ptSzP9 #bmgen #bizarch #ngo
• business_design: RT @InnosightTeam: Interesting read in HBR – how to use emergent vs. deliberate strategy effectively #innovation http://bit.ly/qYZvXi
• KMskunkworks: RT @thotstr: Fair Process – Managing in the Knowledge Economy [PDF, 2003] http://awe.sm/5RnNT #KM #leadership #Ts #HBR [Good read!] >centrality of trust in #collab #entarch
• Cybersal: RT @Ronald_G_Ross: Zachman makes headlines: a real shocker if you’ve ever heard him speak… http://goo.gl/08ALS #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: Aliveness in Marketing – my latest blog post http://bit.ly/pG0eBI >trust and transparency are key here
• theopengroup: By @ArtBourbon: Monet revisited (or: non-traditional approaches to developing TOGAF® Next) http://nblo.gs/m624K #entarch
• ArtBourbon: @pbmobi @tetradian @neternity @moneydecisions  thanks for the ideas  Blog: Monet revisited  http://bit.ly/eOKg7W @theopengroup #entarch
• Cybersal: RT @timkastelle By Kay Plantes: Business model #innovation lesson in HP exiting PCs http://bit.ly/pLoIJ6 #bizarch #entarch >”HP mistakenly defines its business by products. Apple on the other hand defines its business around a value promise – making access to and management of electronic information effortless.”
• CreatvEmergence: Slideshare: The Future of Living Networks and Organizations by @rossdawson http://bit.ly/qGKykH #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Blog Post: There are only business strategies http://bit.ly/nNx5ki >on strategy and #km
• jdevoo: RT @cjsequeira: CFO’s Sustainability Role Still Growing, Ernst & Young Says http://bit.ly/oiggFj >> the CFO looks out for social and env?! hm
• gkathan: RT @OBASHI_Chief: New blog | Zombies, dataflows and the CxO career apocalypse http://ow.ly/6cvQ2 #Entarch #bizarch #itfail
• gkathan: Howard Jarche: “hierarchy is a prosthesis for trust” – http://bit.ly/pTQuw3 #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Using stories and km to develop strategies people embrace http://bit.ly/oHJMC9 #km #storytelling #bizstory #entarch
• simonbrown: RT @flowchainsensei: “People think the public sector is doing worse in IT than private companies – our findings suggest they’re just as bad.” http://goo.gl/2fbb5 #entarch #strategy
• gkathan: RT @present_tense Information Visualization Manifesto http://pear.ly/wfK0 via @pearltrees #visualthinkingcomplexity #visualthinking #entarch
• business_design: RT @stattys_world: #bmgen canvas in @thinkpublic & @nesta_uk prototyping process [PDF] http://t.co/udVNbMQ >recommend #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: Emergence – Why Impossible Happens More Often http://t.co/e7VKvpY by Kevin Kelly via @edwardharran @petervan #society #culture #entarch
• JosvanOosten: Since a relationship involves two members… http://dlvr.it/j78Zk #bmgen #bizarch #reputation

A few comments on the retirement of Steve Jobs from Apple:

• SAlhir: RT @dave_carpenter Seth Godin succinctly puts Steve Jobs announcement in perspective. Important quick read http://bit.ly/n52Yca
• thoughttrans: RT @presentationzen: Just like his presentations, Steve Jobs’ resignation letter is simple,clear, & 2 the point. http://tinyurl.com/3s974b5
• Cybersal: #SteveJobs: “We think we have the right architecture not just in silicon but in the organization to build these kinds of products” #entarch
• thoughttrans: RT @tedchris: I just re-watched Steve Jobs’ powerful Stanford speech, more poignant than ever. “Do what you love.” http://on.ted.com/9bj6
• thoughttrans: My few words on what I hope Steve Jobs is doing now that he has the time. http://ow.ly/6d8cm
• SAlhir: RT @bizshrink: New Post: An Icon Never Retires #SteveJobs – http://bit.ly/roQNaR

Anything about people working directly with others, or working on new ideas:

• thoughttrans: RT @TCagley: SPaMCAST 147 – Selfishness and Process Improvement http://bit.ly/qUkBmr #Change #Agile #CMMI #Kanban
• CreatvEmergence: The ‘yin’ of marketing –> RT @zen_habits The Quiet Theory of Influence: http://zenhabits.net/shhh >recommend #entarch
• CreatvEmergence: Right on! -> Arts-based learning in Journal for Business Strategy: http://tinyurl.com/42hkdv6 via @T_C_P (Engage some at #cibc11)
• CreatvEmergence: What Ants Can Teach the Enterprise About Teamwork – bit.ly/nMqVuR via @rossdawson #collab #entarch
• BillIves: post – Review of Kate Pugh’s Sharing Hidden Know-How http://bit.ly/nOCnJM #km
• thoughttrans: How my old skills from my older career came in handy in my new very different career! http://ow.ly/69lNg >the importance of the ‘desk-check’
• DavidGurteen: Video: The 7 design principles of the World Cafe http://bit.ly/r24z7G #theworldcafe #kcafe
• DavidGurteen: RT @ConnectIrmeli: Contextualism http://bit.ly/qvUURM #KM /things can only be understood in context
• CreatvEmergence: HBR: Disrupt Yourself by @johnsonwhitney http://s.hbr.org/px0vSd >see also http://bit.ly/9WPfgn by same author – both give v.useful lessons for me right now
• CreatvEmergence: The “Aha” Moment: Top journalists on how great ideas come to them. http://journ.us/hR2JnD via @SeanKellyStudio #cibc11 #narrative #bizstory
• DavidGurteen: Information rag and bone men curate the weak signal and the long tail. (from @euan) http://bit.ly/p0VY0l #KM
• KMskunkworks: Keeping Crucial Knowledge From Leaving Forever http://j.mp/pDv7ng [excellent read!] helps with this KM problem http://bit.ly/oHOIsd >key #entarch issue, far too often overlooked
• Cybersal: By @podnosh, via @davebriggs: Storytellers, weavers, architects and navigators in Local Govt http://bit.ly/q5oi8i >threatened by cuts
• CreatvEmergence: The Never-Ending Story | design mind http://bit.ly/ptztP9 via @JohnCabra @frogdesign  #bizstory
• joyce_hostyn: “Discipline isn’t willpower. Discipline is setting up the perfect environment…” http://j.mp/p1J3PU RT @VMaryAbraham by @chrisbrogan >recommend (as much to myself as to anyone else… )
• CreatvEmergence: You might be part of a self-organizing community if… http://bit.ly/pQRGjZ via @sebpaquet @collectiveself
• chrisdpotts: Me too | RT @mkrigsman: Answered ‘What’s the best project management advice that you’ve ever been given?’ http://bit.ly/oj8OnL #pmp #pmot
• DavidGurteen: HBR: Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It) http://bit.ly/o1TgBJ #KM #collab
• SAlhir: RT @Annemcx @VisceralBiz putting the power of storytelling on the board agenda Business60 Transforming Ideas http://bit.ly/pTC3sg >visual storytelling: interesting sales-pitch for a sales-pitch?
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia “Before we can think outside the box, we must start with the box!” http://bit.ly/qjb3Tv #creativity #innovation
• SAlhir: RT @sniukas Innovation is new ideas made useful… http://bit.ly/qC5xwJ >well put
• CreatvEmergence: How Do We Create Cultures of #Creativity with @johnmaeda bit.ly/jJPOGK via @StevenDahlberg #AspenIdeas
• KMskunkworks: Keeping Crucial Knowledge From Leaving Forever (Perigean Technologies – Public Power Magazine) wp.me/pUfyy-a7 #KCube #KMers #Training
• simonbrown: Short and to the point! RT @PapaChrisMatts: #Blogflog “The last IRRESPONSIBLE moment” http://bit.ly/nIeEO5 #lean >now translate this to #economics #society #sustainability…
• DavidGurteen: Nonaka in 60 seconds http://bit.ly/pXrQXi #KM
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: FrogDesign: “Stories online aren’t really stories right now” http://bit.ly/n4awLB >> #entarch must have a Cow Bird (thanks to @ruthmalan) #bizstory #e20
• DavidGurteen: Making sense of our world http://bit.ly/ocvxGk #KM >sensemaking as part of personal-KM
• oscarberg: Unless you prepare & open your mind to serendipity it’s less likely to happen
• oscarberg: RT @s_ko: @oscarberg serendipity is too important to be left to chance… < Good way of putting it
• SAlhir: RT @JudithEGlaser Cluttered environments lead to cluttered and disorganized minds. http://t.co/4m4XZD9 #creatingwe >yeah, yeah, I know, I know…
• DavidGurteen: Facilitation isn’t just about taking a tried + true process + using it yet again http://bit.ly/qDSFi2
• CreatvEmergence: Born to think in iterations > creativity expands. Socialized to think pass/fail > creativity contracts. We need iterative thinking culture >agree, tho’ note that this implies need for total restructure/refocus of education etc
• gkathan: RT @SunniBrown: Does anyone read these days? Some doodle articles just in case:  http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/articles/ #creativity #sensemaking

Online-collaboration, user-experience and suchlike:

• thinksmith: 7 Strategic design principles for web-product people, copywriters, designers,  UX & IA’s: http://tumblr.com/xwh4919t5w
• joyce_hostyn: Do you have an app for that? http://bit.ly/og4NqT [new post] >useful user-scenario case-study #ux
• oscarberg: A platform focus is a sure path to  #e20 failure. Design services for people, their goals & work contexts.
• simonbrown: Booking a Ryanair flight for the first time … I don’t like it already :-/ >’first time user’ – #ux #bmgen #bizarch etc please take note?
• CreatvEmergence: RT @MarionChapsal – IDEO a New Collaborative Tool #MIX – http://bit.ly/q8m2P1 – built on #Passion >internal #collab tool at IDEO

IT-this-that-and-the-other:

• basvg: series of blogpost on TOGAF, crosposted to  http://sgp.cm/de2920 #entarch #togaf http://sgp.cm/bff497
• chrisdpotts: How to approach BYO technology: explore what architectures would have looked like if consumer IT had predated corporate IT. #CIO #entarch
• simonbrown: RT @huddle: Have you checked out the #1 SharePoint Alternative? Over 90,000 businesses already have! Try a Huddle Free Trial today http://ow.ly/6apks #itarch #socbiz #e20
• gkathan: RT @OndrejGalik Software Architecture and “The Principle of Small Decisions” http://t.co/F6J11zT /via @wordpressdotcom >valid for #entarch too >so true
• basvg: RT @brendabizz: See BiZZdesign’s whitepaper “Capturing Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise” http://bit.ly/qRcy2O >useful resource for #itarch #entarch
• joemckendrick: Wireless data can be delivered by LED lights, anywhere: call it ‘Li-Fi’ http://smrt.io/nnzdaW
• Cybersal: RT @MIT_CISR New MIT CISR survey on enterprise architecture! To participate http://ow.ly/6dBLP #ea #entarch #CIO

The societal big-picture, with economics, sustainability and the like:

• CreatvEmergence: Vision for Conscious Community http://bit.ly/rulJP7 #society #sustainability #economics
• JosvanOosten: G. Edward Griffin: The Mandrake Mechanism and Debt Cancellation http://dlvr.it/h9J89 #economics #politics #society
• SAlhir: RT @stevedenning RT @bmdesignhki: How USA (and UK) have lost the ability to Make Things. http://patk.in/r9VgiK via @patkinsel @GrabCAD
• CreatvEmergence: RT @VenessaMiemis: excellent resource for building local #resilience – Asset-Based Community Development Institute http://www.abcdinstitute.org/abcd09/
• SAlhir: RT @Annemcx RT @RichardMerrick Some notes on Bureaucracy by @hjarche http://bit.ly/oZXFCN >”tyranny was the solution to a communications problem” – a brilliant insight on the relationship between bureaucracy and tyranny
• SystemsWiki: #stwg Evolution myths: ‘Survival of the fittest’ justifies ‘everyone for themselves’ fm New Scientist http://bit.ly/p3Bwn7
• oscarberg: RT @nahumg: RT @ej_butler: 12 mind-blowing concepts from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestsellers http://read.bi/qoOfeo /via @tbi_warroom
• tetradian: [post] Listen for the real narrative http://bit.ly/qdxom8 #narrative #km #change #society
• KMskunkworks: Building a society’s knowledge capacity wp.me/pUfyy-9L
• thoughttrans: Seth’s Blog: Short-term capitalism http://bit.ly/pi7BRI
• jdevoo: RT @redesign: Surprise: history is not your therapist. This is the New Age you never expected. Crybabies need not apply. http://bit.ly/mYrL0k
• DavidGurteen: Video: A bureaucrat is “out stapled” http://bit.ly/o3e6j4 /Absolutely hilarious
• Cybersal: Reading this interview,  http://bit.ly/oOJDDY discovered I went to same school as the heroine of the Hackney riots. http://bit.ly/qjuTT3 >for the original video, see http://youtu.be/aOZjPT2Juxw
• fer_ananda: RT @JenniferSertl: Mindfulness Required:This is not the age of info. Is the age of resonance http://bit.ly/m2R4CO Meaning is the new currency >yes – though note that it’s neither a hoardable nor exchangeable commodity (i.e. cannot be used for a ‘pseudo-scarcity’ economy)
• CreatvEmergence: RT @SpiralEyes: An article I wrote with @integralcity on how generational values impact city policy. Integral Leadership Review http://bit.ly/rdRUYA
• DavidGurteen: Britain: Nine Meals From Anarchy http://bit.ly/pw7mqZ #economics #society
• ArtBourbon: RT @dlinden: Go green before it’s too late! Aliens will punish us for screwing up the planet (English version) http://bit.ly/ogweuQ >nice example of serious futures-work (yes, serious.)
• kvistgaard: RT @nelderini: Wow, @ericgarland manages to slay bad futurists, their customers, journalists & editors in one stroke! http://bit.ly/neooiM #futures
• SAlhir: RT @ChuckBlakeman: Riches vs. Wealth – big diff – http://bit.ly/n4nMCJ #society #economics
• jdevoo: RT @phisab: @jdevoo What’s mine is yours… collaborative consumption http://bit.ly/myMmz0 >> great resource #society #economics
• CreatvEmergence: Living Web Films – Regenerative Agriculture by Beezhan Tulu – Kickstarter http://kck.st/pLFdXE
• SAlhir: RT @intmf “If the youth are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel it’s warmth” — African Proverb >the real origin of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ #society #culture

And, the items that really matter – the ever-ineffable none-of-the-above’:

• Bebela239: RT @GuardianBooks: nature and nurture finally reconciled – the new evolutionism. review of controversial The Epigenetics Revolution http://gu.com/p/3x9a5/tw #books >interestingly, confirms that the ‘Lamarckian heresy’ is in fact sort-of valid – acquired traits can be passed on to subsequent generations under certain conditions and contexts
• tetradian: [post] Not quite bus-pass day… http://bit.ly/osOabf
• kvistgaard: Pomodairo, a pomodoro technique application, works great. And it’s free: http://bit.ly/ayGSFB >Adobe AIR (multi-platform) version of the Pomodoro technique
• simonbrown: Impressed with ChronoSync … sync’d 46GB of stuff to the Time Capsule without any errors (which Time Machine doesn’t always manage)!
• Cybersal: Brilliant set of writing tips here:  http://bit.ly/qTRa4D (via @DanielPink ‘s excellent newsletter)
• joyce_hostyn: RT @chuckfrey: AWESOME STORY! >> The Martial Arts of the Mind from @mitchditkoff: http://ht.ly/6bmfI #innovation #leadership
• mikejwalker: McAfee: Android malware soars while iPhone untouched http://aol.it/nvJfGm >oh dear…
• Bebela239: RT @wiredscience: Dolphins using big shells as tools to catch fish. Landmark scientific implications aside, it’s so darn cute! http://is.gd/T2j0Xg