There was a woman called Clara Benn who had never been ugly until the world explained to her, in considerable detail, that she was. She was thirty-four and worked in…
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The Old Ones Will Never Go to Mars
Bradbury, Frontier Capital and the Business of the Permanent Future Ray Bradbury’s “The Old Ones” lasts barely a page, yet it contains an entire theory of colonisation. By the time…
Blessing a New Office
A Shinto blessing for a new office typically involves a ceremony called Jichinsai (地鎮祭), which is performed to purify the space and invite good fortune, harmony, and success. Below is…
EA – An Actual Model of a Business?
If you genuinely want to understand how a business is structured and how it improves, think of it as seven interacting systems. Capabilities sit across these systems as a vocabulary…
Human Resource Capital: A Public Sector Field Guide
There was a time when organisations employed people. They were called staff. Some were good. Some were useless. Some knew where the stopcock was, which made them effectively immortal. Then…
EA Part Three: The Architecture in Motion (Worked Examples)
The true test of any architectural framework is how it handles reality. When subjected to the friction of legacy infrastructure, human behavior, and budget constraints, theoretical models often collapse. To…
EA Part Two: Domains, Views, and How to Use the Architecture
If the seven structural systems (Value, Work, Organisation, Information, Technology, Economics, Governance) are the physics of the enterprise, and Capabilities are the vocabulary, then Domains and Views are how we…
EA Part One: The Anatomy of the Enterprise
To understand a business is to look past its marketing, its mission statements, and its organizational chart. Beneath those abstractions, a business is an engineered entity—a complex, dynamic machine designed…
Managing Successful Outcomes in Complex Business Transformations: A Theoretical Synthesis
Successful business transformation requires organizations to evolve beyond treating capability upgrades as isolated technological deployments. Contemporary academic and practitioner theories emphasize that sustainable change is achieved through the deliberate synchronization of structural frameworks, cultural behavioral levers, and a proactive organizational posture
Canto X – Enterprise Architecture
Canto X of Dante’s Inferno maps surprisingly well onto some of the recurring structural failures of Enterprise Architecture. The central analogy is this: the heretics in Canto X can see…
The Laments of Business Architecture
Business Architecture begins with a noble ambition: Understand how the organisation works. It then immediately draws 146 coloured boxes. These boxes are called capabilities. Nobody is entirely sure what some…
Zen and the Art of Solution Architecture
Solution Architecture begins with a simple question: “What are we actually trying to do?” This question is rarely welcomed. The project has already been named. The budget has been estimated….