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On power and enterprise architecture

Exploring how power-issues affect architectures

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog tackles the issues around power and responsibility - or lack of them - and how these affect not just our architectures and organisations but society as a whole.

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

  • Power and Society: Responsibilities and Rights - assesses the relationships between rights and responsibilities, and how concepts of power underpin both.
  • Power and Society: Architecture and Responsibility - reviews how issues around power and responsibility can impact on the requirements and concerns for our architectures.
  • Power and Society: Irresponsibility - outlines the challenges that arise when individuals, organisations, industries or entire societies align around a systematic and often intentional irresponsibility.
  • Power and Society: Power and the Person - explores how power-issues affect the individual, particularly in the context of work

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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

POWER AND SOCIETY: INTRODUCTION

POWER AND SOCIETY: RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS

On power

  1. Practical applications for enterprise-architecture

A problem of power

On cults

From rights to responsibilities

People, assets, relationships and responsibility

Power, people and enterprise-architecture

  1. Putting it into practice

Four principles – 2: There are no rights

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

A post-rights era?

POWER AND SOCIETY: ARCHITECTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY

An architecture of responsibility

Power and politics in enterprise-architecture

Power-issues in EA – tread carefully…

Yes and no: a question of commitment

Why vision?

Trust and the enterprise

Management as ‘just another service’

Rebalancing top-down management-architectures

  1. Viable System Model
  2. Management on an aircraft-carrier
  3. Engineers and fitters in a research-laboratory
  4. Officer-training in the Army
  5. Summary

Insuperordination

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Competition-against or competition-with?

  1. Implications in business-architecture and enterprise-architecture

Collaboration and anticollaboration – a tangible metaphor

Anticlients are antibodies

Enterprise-architecture - too WEIRD, too WIRED?

Beware of ‘policy-based evidence’

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Hope, optimism and delusion

POWER AND SOCIETY: IRRESPONSIBILITY

An everyday tyranny?

When leadership takes risk

Responsibility versus anti-possession as response to disaster

Anti-clients, kurtosis-risks and public riots

Why are the elite the elite?

Antifragility and bullying

Power, responsibility and bullying in the workplace

What happens when kurtosis-risk eventuates

Should companies go to jail?

“I die inside…”

Landmines on legs

POWER AND SOCIETY: POWER AND THE PERSON

Apologising for the apologies

Struggling with English negativity

On ‘Why Smart People Get Depressed’

On gamification

Gamification and infinite-games

Questions on belief

Extreme cooperation

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