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Big-picture: The hard challenges

Challenging perspectives on politics and society

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog demonstrates how whole-enterprise architecture methods can be used to explore the hard-challenges in politics, economics and society.

This book includes about 35 posts and 80 images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:

  • Big-Picture: Four Principles - presents a multi-part series on ‘Four principles for a sane society’.
  • Big-Picture: Disservices - considers the impacts at a broader-scope level of the dysfunctional counterpart to services, and what to do about them.
  • Big-Picture: Society and Gender - applies a lens of gender as a worked-example to assess societal impacts of purported ‘rights’ at a big-picture level.

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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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Table of Contents

BIG-PICTURE - THE HARD CHALLENGES: INTRODUCTION

BIG-PICTURE - THE HARD CHALLENGES: FOUR PRINCIPLES

Four principles for a sane society

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Four principles – 1: There are no rules

  1. Principle #1: There are no rules – only guidelines
  2. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Four principles – 2: There are no rights

  1. Principle #2: There are no rights – only responsibilities
  2. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Four principles – 3: Money doesn’t matter

  1. Principle #3: Money doesn’t matter – values do
  2. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Four principles – 4: Adaptability is everything

  1. Principle #4: Adaptability is everything – but don’t sacrifice the values
  2. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Four principles for a sane society: Summary

  1. From the Introduction
  2. From Principle #1: There are no rules – only guidelines
  3. From Principle #2: There are no rights – only responsibilities
  4. From Principle #3: Money doesn’t matter – values do
  5. From Principle #4: Adaptability is everything – but don’t sacrifice the values

Four principles for a sane society: an addendum

BIG-PICTURE - THE HARD CHALLENGES: DISSERVICES

Services and disservices - 1: Introduction

  1. What is a service?
  2. What is a disservice?

Services and disservices - 2: Education example

  1. Education example
  2. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Services and disservices - 3: The echo-chamber

  1. The ‘echo-chamber’ of belief
  2. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Services and disservices - 4: Priority and privilege

  1. Jostling for position
  2. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Services and disservices - 5A: Social example (Introduction)

Services and disservices - 5B: Social example (Media-examples 1-5)

  1. Media examples

Services and disservices - 5C: Social example (Media-examples 6-9)

  1. Media examples (continued)

Services and disservices - 5D: Social example (Implications for EA)

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Services and disservices - 6: Assessment and actions

BIG-PICTURE - THE HARD CHALLENGES: SOCIETY AND GENDER

Return to RBPEA

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

Margaret Mead on gender-equality

Oh no not again…

Australia’s sexism strikes again…

And Australian sexism again…

Inanity on domestic violence

Everyday sexism of the subtler kind

Essentialist annoyances

RBPEA: On power and gender

  1. Practical applications

RBPEA: On empathy and gender

  1. Practical applications

RBPEA: On equality and gender

  1. Practical applications

RBPEA: a quick note on inequalities

RBPEA: On abuse and gender

  1. Practical applications

RBPEA: An anticlient’s tale

  1. Practical applications

RBPEA: Wrapping up on gender

  1. Practical application

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