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Architecture Modeling (Business, Enterprise, or Process)
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This published output presents the idea that any "enterprise class" modeling tool that you use for business, process, or enterprise architecture
must fulfil a set of seven high-level functional areas in order to be viable.
This includes the necessary skill sets and knowledge required to realize these "functional capabilities" as real business value.
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Videos & Articles
Videos
Cybernetic Metaphors
Presentation to the Cybernetics Society, September 2021.
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Perhaps a common, underlying theme to my fairly chequered working life has been communication and how meaning is generated, whether that's in political drama, technical training courses, or business architecture meta-models.
It's from this background that I want to explore some cybernetic-related ideas as I understand them (or not, as the case may be).
This exploration will be through the medium of metaphors and pictures - objects to think with - rather than as a thesis or argument, and will cover: the steersman, mental models, complexity, and the cybernetics of drama.
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Shakespeare & Systems Thinking
Presentation at a Systems & Complexity in Organizations (SCIO) event, July 2020.
Improvise, Perform and Discover with Business Architect Malcolm Cawood
Interview with EQ Labs ("candid craic") as part of their weekly "Drinking Dialogues", May 2021.
Articles
How work gets done
This article was published in the ISTC (Institute of Science and Technical Communicators) journal, "The Communicator" in Autumn 2013.
It describes the use of IGOE (Inputs, Guide, Outputs, Enablers) diagrams as a potential basis for business process "knowledge portals" -
and how this presents extended opportunities for technical authors beyond the usual software user guides.
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Minimalism as a framework
The article is a summary of the main tenets of "Minimalism", which is an approach to producing Instructional Documents (whether user guides or training).
It is rooted in a "learning by doing" paradigm.
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