Author: tetradian

  • AI and skills

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    Talking to Tom Graves yesterday I wanted to see what he thought about AI.He avoided talking about the ethical issues that surround AI ‘repurposing’ art and instead talked about AI and skills. He highlighted a much more insidious issue: our reliance on AI leading to a gradual loss of skills.Below is a simple diagram showing…

  • EA and the Content Economy

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    Following the trail of links from a starting-point provided by DavidGurteen’s knowledge-management newsletter brought me to acollective of IT-related types in Sweden (I think?) who post to ablog called The Content Economy. Very much worth reading, from a ‘real enterprise architecture’perspective: they’ve clearly been thinking along the same sort oflines, although their starting-point has been…

  • Business-architecture frameworks

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    Diana Stobart Wild’s other question on the LinkedIn businessarchitecture forum was about frameworks: What is Business Architecture? What does a Business Architecture Framework look like?I think of Business Architecture as a subset of Enterprise Architecture that describes the business from the Strategy down to the enterprise business models (process, data, business rules, etc.). Business parts…

  • Why business-model to enterprise-architecture?

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    But why all this fuss about business-models and enterprise-architecture? What’s the point about the bottom-line not being the baseline to work from? If everyone’s selling something to someone, is there really any difference between a for-profit and a non-profit business-model? And who would want to go from Business Model Canvas to Archimate, anyway? Is anyone…

  • What’s my own business-model?

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    How do I make money, in my business? What’s my own business-model? That was part of a follow-on to my previous post on ‘What do wemean by ‘business-architecture’?⁴’, in a great phone-conversationwith a colleague last night, who challenged me to describe my ownbusiness-model and business-architecture. To him, he said, a business-model is a kind of…

  • The Tetradian Weblog 2.0

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    The Tetradian Weblog was Tom Graves blog all about Enterprise Architecture and more. Started approximately 15 years ago, a lot of his views about EA didn’t then align with the mainstream. Two recurrent themes were that EA is not IT and that the organisation is not the enterprise. Due to various factors the weblog was…