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Business-generalist and business-anarchist

Two key roles in enterprise architecture

Tom Graves

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog introduces two essential yet often-misunderstood roles in enterprise-architecture and for the enterprise as a whole: the business-generalist, and the business-anarchist.

This book includes about 35 posts and 50 images from the weblog. These posts are split into four groups:

  • Generalist: The Role Of The Generalist - explores how generalists connect across the enterprise, and why it would fall apart without their work.
  • Generalist: No Jobs For Generalists - describes why it is so hard to get a job as a business-generalist, and the cultural background that underpins this problem.
  • Generalist: The Role Of The Business-Anarchist - outlines the role and function of the business-anarchist, showing how to tackle inherent-uncertainty in the enterprise.
  • Generalist: The Clash With Specialism - reviews how an over-focus on specialism can cause clashes across the organisation, and can put the viability of the enterprise at risk.

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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

GENERALISTS: INTRODUCTION

GENERALISTS: THE ROLE OF THE GENERALIST

What I do and how I do it

What I do, and why

Enterprise-architecture and organisational health

Pinball-wizard

Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting the joins

Enterprise-architecture as hologram

Architecture as boxes, lines and glue

Capabilities, reference-models and job-descriptions

On ‘Why Smart People Get Depressed’

GENERALISTS: NO JOBS FOR GENERALISTS

There are no jobs for generalists

  1. Defining the problem
  2. Towards a practical solution

More on ‘No jobs for generalists’

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 1)

  1. Two paradigms – or three, perhaps
  2. Implications for recruitment
  3. Implications for business-education

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 2)

  1. The simple model of work
  2. Market-model and market-cycle
  3. Service-interdependencies and Enterprise Canvas

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3a)

  1. An incomplete science

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3b)

  1. Management as a service

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3c)

  1. The impact of the ‘owners’

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3d)

  1. A question of fitness

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3e)

  1. A question of value

‘No jobs for generalists’ – a summary

  1. No jobs for generalists?

GENERALISTS: THE ROLE OF THE BUSINESS-ANARCHIST

The business anarchist

Business anarchist, again

And more business-anarchist

Notes on ‘Business Anarchist’

Enterprise architect as business-anarchist

The rise of the business anarchist

The role and rise of the business-anarchist

Anarchist again

Aliens, anarchists and analysts

Analyst, anarchist, architect

Luddite, and proud

GENERALISTS: THE CLASH WITH SPECIALISM

The point of specialism

Does specialisation lead to bad architecture?

And more on EA certification…

The dangers of specialism-trolls in enterprise-architecture

More on trolls, specialism and context

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