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The Big Picture for Enterprise Architecture

Applying architecture to global challenges

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores how enterprise-architecture and other related disciplines can apply at the 'really-big-picture' scale - not just within a single organisation at the present, but all the way out to the entire planet over any period of time.

This book includes about 40 posts and 50 images from the weblog. These posts are split into six sections:

- Big-Picture: The Big-Picture - presents some of the defining themes in RBPEA ('Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture').

- Big-Picture: Principles and Fundamentals - introduces fundamental concepts and guiding-principles for use in exploring big-picture issues.

- Big-Picture: Methods - focusses on methods that we can use or adapt to work on the big-picture.

- Big-Picture: Society - reviews examples of social challenges at a broader, big-picture scope and scale.

- Big-Picture: Rights and Responsibilities - uses the big-picture view to guide a rethink about relationships between rights and responsibilities.

- Big-Picture: Possession - explores the large-scale and long-term damage caused by concepts of possession.

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Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.

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BIG-PICTURE: INTRODUCTION

BIG-PICTURE: THE BIG PICTURE

The enterprise, the organisation and the ‘big picture’

The Really Big Picture for enterprise-architecture

Looking at the big picture

The gift of a world

RBPEA: “Love, live, work, hope”

  1. “Someone to love”
  2. “Somewhere to live”
  3. “Somewhere to work”
  4. “Something to hope for”
  5. Implications for everyday enterprise-architecture

RBPEA: The other Bolshevism

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

RBPEA: Opportunities unheeded…

RBP-EA: There’s gonna be a revolution…

  1. The Really Big Picture
  2. Putting it into practice

Return to RBPEA

  1. Frameworks
  2. Into practice
  3. Practical applications
  4. Certification
  5. Worked-example

BIG-PICTURE: PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS

Uniqueness and coincidensity

On value-governance

RBPEA: Constraints and corollaries

RBPEA: Basics and fundamentals

RBPEA: Object, subject and ‘should’

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Feelings are facts

RBPEA: Feelings are facts

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

RBPEA: Attachment, non-attachment, non-detachment

Listen for the real narrative

BIG-PICTURE: METHODS

RBP-EA: From ‘Really Big Picture’ into real-world practice

  1. A bit of background
  2. The Really Big Picture
  3. Putting this into practice

Participatory politics

Idea-parenting

How do we make EA make sense?

RBPEA: The dangers of ‘anything-centrism’

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Business-models between for-profit and not-for-profit

Confirming the direction

BIG-PICTURE: SOCIETY

Where have all the good skills gone?

Motivation to learn: “Love is a better master than duty”

Earthquakes and enterprise-architecture

Maggie’s Farm

May Day, and a mayday for our world

Anti-clients, kurtosis-risks and public riots

Should companies go to jail?

Landmines on legs

Luddite, and proud

BIG-PICTURE: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

There is no right to not-care

Why are the elite the elite?

An architecture of responsibility

From rights to responsibilities

BIG-PICTURE: POSSESSION

A problem of possession

Possessed by possession?

Are time and responsibility our only real possessions?

Relational-assets are not ‘possessions’

Responsibility versus anti-possession as response to disaster

RBPEA: Where’s the plan?

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