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Many articles could be classified into more than one theme, but an attempt at grouping would still be helpful. Where the classification is particularly challenging, some will appear under more than one theme.
Systems, management, culture
Readers interested in social systems, cybernetics, complexity, management, organizations, and culture might find some insights within this stream of articles.
Essential Balances series
QUTE: Enterprise Space and Time
Productive Organisational Paradoxes
Essential Balances in Organisations
More on Requisite Inefficiency
The Pathologies of Silo-fighting
Essential Balances in Projects
What’s Wrong with Best Practices?
Some essays focus on organizational culture, like
or social networks
or science
more directly stated suggestions like
Don’t buy ideas. Rent them. and
Don’t improve services, kill ‘em!
and some a bit philosophical
From Distinction to Value and Back
The Role of Meaning and the Meaning of Roles
The Art of Form as a Form of Art
Older systemic stuff like
and a bit more recent, mainly for current (or future) cybernetic nerds
Redrawing the Viable System Model diagram
What can Social Systems Theory bring to the VSM?
Variety – part 1, Variety – part 2
There is a set of essays inspired by the Calculus of indications; some of them are listed already, but I’ll let’s group them all below:
From Distinction to Value and Back
The Art of Form as a Form of Art
Roaming through contexts with Roam: Distinction
Roaming through contexts with Roam: Self-reference
And here’s a recent one, first published on Link&Think
Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Data
Here, you can find articles on enterprise data management, like
Data-centric project requirements?
on Linked data and semantic technologies
Wikipedia “Knows” more than it “Tells”
or some where their semantic technologies play an important but the main context is Enterprise Architecture…
Language and meta-language for Enterprise Architecture
QUTE: Enterprise Space and Time
…or Business Process Management like
There are also more general essays on data and knowledge management
Do We Still Worship The Knowledge Pyramid?
Personal Knowledge Management
PKM series
Parts 3 and 4 are forthcoming but will be published first on Link&Think.
Roam series
Evernote series
The slides and link to a talk about Personal Knowledge Graphs belong here as well. A more developed version of these ideas are now in the first chapter of the book Personal Knowledge Graphs.
Enterprise Architecture
The Infatuation with “Building Blocks”
Language and meta-language for EA
Redrawing the Viable System Model diagram
ArchiMate, BPMN and UML together
The efforts spent on definitions
Patterns of Informal Architecture
All-inclusive Enterprise Architecture
Business Process Management
BPMN vs. EPC revisited, part 1
BPMN vs. EPC revisited, part 2
ArchiMate, BPMN and UML together