Business-generalist and business-anarchist
Business-generalist and business-anarchist
Two key roles in enterprise architecture
About the Book
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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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
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There are no jobs for generalists
- Defining the problem
- Towards a practical solution
- More on ‘No jobs for generalists’
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 1)
- Two paradigms – or three, perhaps
- Implications for recruitment
- Implications for business-education
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 2)
- The simple model of work
- Market-model and market-cycle
- Service-interdependencies and Enterprise Canvas
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3a)
- An incomplete science
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3b)
- Management as a service
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3c)
- The impact of the ‘owners’
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3d)
- A question of fitness
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Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 3e)
- A question of value
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‘No jobs for generalists’ – a summary
- 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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