Added 8 days ago Collaborative enterprise architecture design and development with a semantic collaboration tool http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-119304.html Fuchs-Kittowski, F.; Faust, D.: The design and evolution of an enterprise architecture (EA) is a challenging and complex task. A participative approach to collaborative EA management is needed to support the collaboration of all individuals involved in the process of EA design and evolution. This paper presents our concept of a semantic collaboration tool for collaborative EA management. This includes the concept of a semantic, wiki-like collaboration tool for collaborative EA management and an EA ontology as a formal representation of the EA. Additionally, the prototypical implementation of the semantic collaboration environment and its architecture are described and the benefits of the approach discussed. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein, Robert Shelton (2005) Making Innovation Work: How to Manage it, Measure it, and Profit from it http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0131497863 Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft and Toyota, to help ordinary managers drive top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience -- as well as the most thorough review of innovation research ever performed. They'll show what works, what doesn't, and how to use management tools to dramatically increase the payoff from innovation investments. Learn how to define the right strategy effective innovation; how to structure an organization to innovate best; how to implement management systems to assess ongoing innovation; how to incentivize teams to deliver, and much more. This book offers the first authoritative guide to using metrics at every step of the innovation process -- from idea creation and selection through prototyping and commercialization. - Management -

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Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Models http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/ FEA Reference Models include the Consolidated Reference Model Version 2.3 and Data Reference Model 2.0. FY10 FEA Reference Model Mapping Quick Guide. - Enterprise Architecture - Government EA - Reference Models -

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From induction to abduction, a new approach to research and productive inquiry http://learningtobeprofessional.pbworks.com/From-induction-to-abduction,-a-new-approach-to-research-and-productive-inquiry Videos from seminar with Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd. Tuesday February 9th 2010 - Knowledge Management - Complexity -

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Australian Government Architecture Reference Models (version 2.0) http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governance/aga-rm/AGA-RM.html In developing the AGA we have adapted an established and proven framework based on the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) developed by the United States Government. This framework is being used in a number of other countries and some state governments in Australia. The framework and these reference models have been endorsed by the Australian Government’s Chief Information Officers’ Committee. - Enterprise Architecture - Reference Models -

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Complexity, chaos and enterprise-architecture http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/02/19/complexity-chaos-and-ea/ Tom Graves: Courtesy of a link by fellow enterprise-architect Sally Bean, I've just spent the past couple of hours viewing and then reviewing an online seminar on complexity by one of the thought-leaders on complexity-theory and practice, Dave Snowden. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Elspeth J. Murray and Peter R. Richardson (2003) Organizational Change in 100 Days: A Fast Forward Guide (Accompanying Guide) http://slashdemocracy.org/book/019515312X In an age of rapidly changing technology, shifting global opportunities, and activist shareholders, executives are expected to respond quickly. These executives are seeking tools that will allow them to keep a step ahead of changes in the business environment, because they are critically aware of the fact that slow change equals slow death.Organizational Change in 100 Days: A Fast Forward Guide is one such tool. Developed to be used as a companion to Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, this book provides exercises and worksheets that will allow the reader to develop and implement a plan for organizational change. This guide's flexible format can be used either in groups or by individuals, and will be especially useful to facilitators, trainers, and consultants who work with companies on change strategies. - Change Management -

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Elspeth J. Murray and Peter R. Richardson (2002) Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0195153111 In the age of rapidly changing technology, increased global opportunities and globalisation, and shareholder activity, executives all over the world are expected to use the right techniques in order to gain the highest level of success for their organization. These executives need the knowledge and tools that will allow them to continue to thrive and remain ahead of the competition in the business environment. This volume and its accompanying guide puts them on the right track. It offers a practical and proven framework for rapid implementation of strategic change that can be used by executives and their organisations. Complete with an collection of examples and checklists, the accompanying guides provide guidance on specific types of change initiatives such as the launch of a new strategic plan, deep cultural change, acquisitions, and new products. - Change Management -

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Claudio Ciborra (2001) From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0199246637 Firms are investing considerable resources to create large information infrastructures able to fulfil their varied information-processing and communication needs. The more the drive towards globalization, the more such infrastructures become crucial.The 'wiring' of the corporation should be done in a way that is aligned with its corporate strategy-it is global and generates value. This book presents six in-depth case studies of large corporations-AstraZeneca, IBM, Norsk Hydro, Roche, SKF, and Statoil-which offer a rich picture of the main issues involved in information infrastructure implementation and management. Far from being a linear process, the use of the information infrastructure is in fact an open-ended process, in many cases out of control. Current management models and consulting advice do not seem to be able to cope with such a business landscape. This book provides the reader with interpretations and theories that can foster a different understanding and approach. - System Dynamics -

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Claudio Ciborra (2004) The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0199275262 How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants. The former have offered multiple ways to represent, model, and build applications that would streamline and accelerate data flows, while the latter have been busy linking the deployment of ICT's with strategy and the redesign of business processes. This book takes quite a different approach altogether. In a series of essays, Ciborra uses a string of metaphors--such as Bricolage, Krisis, Gestall, etc. -- to place a concern for human existence and our working lives at the center of the study of ICTs and their diffusion in business organizations, and looks at our practices, improvizations, and moods. He draws upon his own extensive research and consulting experience to throw a fresh light on some key questions: why are systems ambiguous? Why do they not give us more time to do things? Is there strategic value in tinkering even in high-tech settings? What is the value of age-old practices in dealing with new technologies? What is the role of moods and affections in influencing action and cognition? Labyrinths of Information presents an alternative to the current approaches in management, software-engineering, and strategy that will be of interest to all those concerned with the deployment of ICTs in society today -- whether as users, managers, designers, policy makers or the merely curious. - System Dynamics -

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Where Process-Improvement Projects Go Wrong http://sloanreview.mit.edu/business-insight/articles/2010/1/5214/where-process-improvement-projects-go-wrong/ Satya S. Chakravorty, MIT Sloan Management Review: Six Sigma and other programs typically show early progress. And then things return to the way they were. - Business Process Management -

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Uses of pattern language in the urban century http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/15/uses-of-pattern-language-in-the-urban-century/ Jon Udell: I’ve long been familiar with the idea of software patterns. But I didn’t connect it to its roots in the architectural writings of Christopher Alexander until I recently listened to Kent Beck’s keynote at the 2008 Rails conference. Kent was deeply influenced by The Timeless Way of Building. That book wasn’t available in my local library. But the companion volume, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, was. It’s been a revelation to read it for the first time, more than thirty years after it was published, through lenses formed by my experience with software and networks. - Patternthinking -

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Data and transparency: Of governments and geeks http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15469415 The Economist: Of governments and geeks In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways - eGovernment -

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Challenges for the Decade, Part 4: Enterprise Architecture - Anatomy of Agile Enterprise http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/01/challenges-for-the-decade-part-4-enterprise-architecture.php Janne J. Korhonen: In this series of blog posts, I have addressed some of the challenges that the emergence of extended enterprise paradigm entails in terms of strategy, governance, leadership, and, in this last article, enterprise architecture. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Høring om Offentlighedskommissionens betænkning https://www.borger.dk/Lovgivning/Hoeringsportalen/Sider/Fakta.aspx?hpid=2146001191 Betænkning om offentlighedsloven afgivet af Offentlighedskommissionen - Public Policy -

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Geoff Mulgan (2008) The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0199289646 The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, people, technologies, and public commitment can be mobilized to achieve important goals. It considers the common mistakes made, and how these can be avoided, as well as analysing the tools governments can use to meet their goals, from targets and behavior change programs, to innovation and risk management. Written by Geoff Mulgan, a former head of policy for the UK prime minister, and advisor to governments round the world, it is packed with examples, and shaped by the author's practical experience. The author shows that governments which give more weight to the long-term are not only more likely to leave their citizens richer, healthier, and safer; they're also better protected from being blown off course by short-term pressures. - Public Policy - eGovernment -

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William D. Eggers (2009) If We Can Put a Man on the Moon...: Getting Big Things Done in Government http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1422166368 The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare reform, the moon landing. We need more successes like these to reclaim government's legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, William Eggers and John O'Leary explain how to do it. The key? Understand-and avoid-the common pitfalls that trip up public-sector leaders during the journey from idea to results. At a time of unprecedented challenges, this book, with its abundant examples and hands-on advice, is the essential guide to making our government work better. A must-read for every public official, this book will be of interest to anyone who cares about the future of democracy. - eGovernment - Public Policy -

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Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, John D Smith (2009) Digital Habitats http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0982503601 Technology has changed what it means for communities to "be together." Digital tools are now part of most communities' habitats. This book develops a new literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities. Whether you want to ground your technology stewardship in theory and deepen your practice, whether you are a community leader or sponsor who wants to understand how communities and technology intersect, or whether you just want practical advice, this is the book for you. - Communities of practice -

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Jim Collins (2001) Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0712676090 Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that there are no silver bullets to greatness. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Gillette, Walgreens and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management or even a fine-tuned business strategy. - Strategy -

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Kevin Kelly (2009) Leading in Turbulent Times http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0273727532 How do you lead when the world just won't stand still? Leading in Turbulent Times is based on exclusive interviews with the frontline leaders who know how to adapt to rapid change and how to help their companies overcome the challenging obstacles they face. When change is the name of the game, the best leaders focus on passion; communication; and vision. - Change Management -

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Manuel Castells (2009) Communication Power http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0199567042 We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media and includes the Internet and mobile communication. In this wide-ranging and powerful book, Manuel Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by this revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, and power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment. Created in the commons of the Internet this communication can be locally based, but globally connected. It is built through messaging, social networks sites, and blogging, and is now being used by the millions around the world who have access to the Internet. Drawing on a wide range of social and psychological theories, Castells presents original research on political processes and social movements, including the misinformation of the American public on the Iraq War, the global environmental movement to prevent climate change, the control of information in China and Russia, and Internet-based political campaigns, such as the Obama campaign in the United States. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a new theory of power in the information age based on the management of communication networks Justly celebrated for his analysis of the network society, Castells here builds on that work, offering a well grounded and immensely challenging picture of communication and power in the 21st century. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world. - Political Science -

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Tor Hernes (2003) Autopoietic Organization Theory: Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social System Perspective http://slashdemocracy.org/book/8763001039 Organization theorists have, since the 1980s, pointed out that autopoiesis represents considerable potential for developing alternative ways of understanding organizations. Niklas Luhmann's autopoiesis, being developed specifically for theorizing social systems, is gradually finding its way into organization studies. In bringing together authors from different European countries and institutions, as well as from different disciplines, this anthology introduces the reader to selected areas of Luhmann's autopoiesis that have bearing on organization theory. It discusses aspects that are of particular interest to both theoretical and empirical organization theory, and in doing so it enables students of organizations to acquire better appreciation of Luhmann's thinking. - System Dynamics -

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Elaine C. Kamarck (2007) The End of Government... as We Know It: Making Public Policy Work http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1588264947 In the last decades of the 20th century, many political leaders declared that government was, in the words of Ronald Reagan, "the problem, not the solution." But on closer inspection, argues Elaine Kamarck, the revolt against "government" was and is a revolt against bureaucracy - a revolt that has taken place in first world, developing, and avowedly communist countries alike. To some, this looks like the end of government. Kamarck, however, counters that what we are seeing is the replacement of the traditional bureaucratic approach with new models more in keeping with the information age economy. "The End of Government" explores the emerging contours of this new, postbureaucratic state - the sequel to government as we know it - considering: What forms will it take? Will it work in all policy arenas? Will it serve democratic ideals more effectively than did the bureaucratic state of the previous century? Perhaps most significantly, how will leadership be redefined in these new circumstances? Kamarck's provocative work makes it clear that, in addition to figuring out what to do, today's government leaders face an unprecedented number of options when it comes to how to do things. The challenge of government increasingly will be to choose an implementation mode, match it to a policy problem, and manage it well in the postbureaucratic world. - eGovernment - Public Policy -

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Stuart Sutherland (1992) Irrationality http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1905177070 Why do doctors, generals, civil servants and others consistently make wrong decisions that cause enormous harm to others? Irrational beliefs and behaviours are virtually universal. In this iconoclastic book Stuart Sutherland analyses causes of irrationality and examines why we are irrational, the different kinds of irrationality, the damage it does us and the possible cures. - System Dynamics -

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Niklas Luhmann (2005) Risk: A Sociological Theory http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0202307646 A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Theoretical sociology, however, has shown little interest in it. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker. Luhmann shows how strongly and how differently the separate segments of modern society, such as politics, law, science, and the economy, react to the hazardous situations to which they are exposed. Luhmann's thesis is that the gap has been increasing between those who participate in decisions and those who are excluded from the decision-making process, but who nevertheless have to bear the consequences of the decisions taken. This seminal book will be of interest to professionals and students in a variety of disciplines. It is a classic exploration of risk that will be valued by those interested in technology, communication, sociology, politics, and scientific research. - System Dynamics -

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