On power and enterprise architecture
On power and enterprise architecture
Exploring how power-issues affect architectures
About the Book
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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Table of Contents
- POWER AND SOCIETY: INTRODUCTION
- POWER AND SOCIETY: RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS
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On power
- Practical applications for enterprise-architecture
- A problem of power
- On cults
- From rights to responsibilities
- People, assets, relationships and responsibility
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Power, people and enterprise-architecture
- Putting it into practice
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Four principles – 2: There are no rights
- Principle #2: There are no rights – only responsibilities
- 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’
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Rebalancing top-down management-architectures
- Viable System Model
- Management on an aircraft-carrier
- Engineers and fitters in a research-laboratory
- Officer-training in the Army
- Summary
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Insuperordination
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
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Competition-against or competition-with?
- Implications in business-architecture and enterprise-architecture
- Collaboration and anticollaboration – a tangible metaphor
- Anticlients are antibodies
- Enterprise-architecture - too WEIRD, too WIRED?
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Beware of ‘policy-based evidence’
- 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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