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A few thoughts on business architecture for emergent strategy
11 June 09 11:34 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

  Note: I originally published a version of this post as a comment on the Forrester blog in response to Gene Leganza’s article here , entitled “Aligning to Emergent Strategy".  Gene’s article offers an idea for how to approach Business Read More...

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Enterprise Agility | NetObjectives: SIPOC helps you figure out where to start
30 January 08 07:33 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Some very good basic advice here from Jim Trott at NetObjectives about applying lean principles and systems thinking to improve software development. An excerpt: "When it comes to analyzing where to start in helping a development organization, it often Read More...

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Seth's Blog: The Billion-Dollar T-Shirt
15 December 07 06:37 AM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Ontological uncertainty exists when, even if you perfectly know and understand the environment you're in, you still can't predict the impact of your actions because the system is changing faster than the ripple effects of your actions can play out. This Read More...

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Swarm intelligence is a way to augment - not replace - our humanity
24 November 07 08:35 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Interesting post here on swarm intelligence, but there's a danger in applying this concept in a disempowering way.  Fundamentally, this is an empowering technological advancement that can help people cope with huge volume information in our lives, Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 3: Strategies for Reinforcing Loops and the Hive Mind
20 June 07 03:59 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Here's a conundrum: if knowledge is personal, how do I benefit from what you "know"?  Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 2: Knowledge is personal
20 June 07 05:34 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg In the natural world, few (if any) things grow without limits.  In the case of information Read More...

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Build to last is dead, speed rules, competency is currency. Resistance is futile.
15 June 07 05:09 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , adaptive , change , decision making , learning , context aware , cyborg An email exchange with a few colleauges last night, including Chris Bernard and Josh Holmes , got me thinking about the network as Read More...

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Learning to thrive in times of accelerating change
15 June 07 02:24 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: continuous learning , systems thinking , adaptive , change , learning Over the last couple of years I've often heard about the need for a "sense and respond" capability -- to sense what's happening in our businesses and to respond Read More...

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A GREAT collection of Lean Software Development Info
14 June 07 02:26 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Technorati Tags: systems thinking , lean manufacturing , lean , six sigma , learning , software development methods I just stumbled across Brad Appleton's fantastic collection of resources on Lean and Agile software development .  Books, presentations, Read More...

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Ontological Uncertainty and Innovation
27 November 06 10:28 PM | john.mullinax | 4 Comments   

Thought folks might find this 2004 working paper from David A. Lane and Robert Maxfield at the Sante Fe Institute of interest: http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/workingpapers/04-06-014.pdf . It’s a little dense, to say the least, so I posted Read More...

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