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A Simplified Approach to Enterprise Architecture

Rule 1 - don't use the phrase "Enterprise Architecture"if you can show someone a picture instead!

Where to intervene in a system

Developer.* has published Places To Intervene In a System by the late Donella Meadows, with an afterword by Don Gray applying the thinking to software devleopment. Thought-provoking stuff - Meadows herself cautions that the essay is not a recipe for finding leverage points. Rather it’s an invitation to think more broadly about system change. In summary [...]

Appliances as small pieces loosely joined

Fascinating series of posts by Leslie Michael Orchard applying the principles of "small pieces loosely joined" to computing hardware and appliances.

The importance of knowing what you want

Joe Ely writes about Lean Manufacturing Systems. One of the core tenets of Lean is to gather frequent feedback about the difference between what you planned to do and what you actually did, reflect on the difference and do something about it. The key thing is doing something about it. Today he tells a story [...]

Models of interest

Matt is thinking about modelling the power of different interests. I’m trying to come up with a mathematic model that allows me to expresses interests, their strengths, and how they change over time. My original thinking was simply to model what is current as most interesting and anything prior to that as less interesting on some [...]

Shirky: Nomic World

"Shirky: Nomic World: By the players, for the players":http://shirky.com/writings/nomic.html - drawing parallels between Nomic online games (where the rules can change) and real life societies [via "Adina Levin":http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/001406.html#001406]

Pattern Synchronicity

Flemming and I have both been thinking about patterns.

Applying the Theory Of Constraints

First practical steps in applying Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to real-life problems

Blogs, life, systems?

Blogs as a form of "time-binding"

Buckminster Fuller article

Refers to Internet Time article on Buckminster Fuller

Systems Thinking for Relationships

Application of ideas from "The Tipping Point" combined with NLP to resolving relationship conflicts

Emergent behaviour

I seem to be spending more and more time reading The Shifted Librarian for Jenny’s insight into what is happening right now in the world of wires…. One particularly interesting current piece is this about how “Google boxes” are having the effect that “two people who have never intentionally linked to each other are each [...]

How Google really does it

The secret was an April Fool, so may not still be there…. Via Seth Godin (yes the ideavirus man) Technorati Tags Systems

More on Systems Archetypes

I was thinking some more about the schools issue (Pay As You Learn)I noted a couple of days ago, and found this recent paper expanding on the Systems Archetypes. Technorati Tags Systems

How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic

Connectors and Mavens! Read more at Microcontent News. This is John Hiler’s blog on Weblogs, Webzines and Personal Publishing, I’ve added it to the blogroll (left). Technorati Tags Systems

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