Tom Graves / Tetradian

This is a follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work’.

One of the various suggestions that came up from that – many thanks, folks! – was for better cross-reference between posts.

I’ve now added a ‘Related posts’ section to the end of each post. (It’s shown only when the page is displayed in ‘single-post’ format – it won’t appear in post-lists, such as on the blog home-page.)

It’s automatically generated (by YARPP, if you’re interested in such things), so it’ll occasionally give somewhat strange results, and I haven’t yet found a way to stop it returning links to the ‘A week in Tweets’ posts. But it’s something, anyway. Hope it’s useful.

And thanks again – I know I kinda flood people with ideas and information, but I do want to give you the best service I can.

Courtesy of a screw-up shared somewhere between myself and my web-hosting provider, an old back-up was overlaid onto the whole of my websites. At least two posts were lost – the announcement of my new book ‘Mapping the Enterprise’ (describing the Enterprise Canvas), and “How not to integrate your IT-systems” (about a real doozy of a misintegration between check-in systems at United Airlines and Continental Airlines) – and also several comments.

There is of course no backup and no way to retrieve the lost posts and comments, since it was the previous backup that overwrote it. My apologies to all…

Following up a recommendation from Shawn Callahan of Australian narrative-knowledge consultancy Anecdote, I’ve started a new weblog, thinking side-wise.

This existing weblog has developed a more technical emphasis around enterprise architecture, together with an assortment of other personal themes, all of which would best be described as somewhat esoteric. The new weblog is for a more general business-executive audience, exploring how to create new possibilities, new opportunities and options in business by ‘thinking side-wise’ about the structure and nature of business, and its role within the broader enterprise of society at large. Some of these ideas will no doubt seem strange, confusing, controversial, provocative, even downright disruptive – but that’s the whole point when we’re aiming to create constructive change, surely?

So to start off in the right spirit, the first main post should be suitably challenging for most business execs: “What do shareholders own?” (The question itself should seem harmless enough; the real answer isn’t – especially for business. )

Please let others know that these ideas are out there: Share and Enjoy, if you would?