Tetradian Books

To be published: January 2009

ISBN: 978-1-906681-16-6

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A service-oriented architecture is fundamental to many new IT applications, from Web 2.0 to social software and cloud-computing. Yet everything is a service: we can apply the same principles to every aspect of the service-oriented enterprise.

This book explores how enterprise architecture and viable services link together to create a simpler yet far more powerful view of the enterprise, as a dynamic, unified whole. The techniques described can be used in business transformation, workflow mapping, system design and much else besides, in every type of enterprise - including those in which there is little or no IT at all.

Topics covered include:

• how to identify and describe the right delivery services, infrastructure services, management services and pervasive services you need for your enterprise
• how to distinguish between services you can safely outsource, and services you need to keep in-house
• how to enhance service quality, interdependence and completeness
• how to pinpoint and map the information-flows you need for service-management and service-performance
• how to construct function-models and service-models of your enterprise, as a base for service-mapping
• how to use services to support agility and innovation across the entire enterprise

If you want to apply the full power of the service-oriented enterprise to your own business context, this is one book you’ll definitely need.

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for almost three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australia and the USA cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

Published: September 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-08-1

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Dowsing is a core skill throughout the ‘alternative’ fields, especially in healing and in earth-mysteries studies - sensing patterns and energies in the landscape to extend our understanding of the past and provide practical value in the present.

Yet whilst there are many introductory texts for beginners, there has been almost nothing that tackles the deeper disciplines of dowsing - the systematic practices and processes to take your skills beyond the beginner level. This book addresses that essential need. (more…)

Published: July 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-14-2

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“Many of the common concepts of power in business are so close to perfectly wrong that it’s amazing any work happens at all…”

The physics definition of power is ‘the ability to do work’; most social definitions are closer to the ability to avoid it. This insight provides opportunities for a radical re-think of power and response-ability at work. Linking the human side of systems into the architecture of the enterprise creates workplaces that are more effective, empowering and profitable for everyone involved. (more…)

Published: July 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-12-8

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A disparate trio of prospectors seek their fortunes in the turbulent upheavals of the Australian goldrush - and whilst none of them find what they expect, each receives the reward they deserve… possibly…

Described as “an odd cross between a mediaeval mystery-play and an exploration of the meaning of ‘progress’”, this musical comedy/satire was written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade at Ballarat in 1854 - a clash between gold-miners and government troops which became one of the founding events of colonial Australia. (more…)

Published: July 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-10-4

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Traditional management texts focus most of their attention on ways to improve local efficiency. Yet the real goal is enhancing enterprise effectiveness - for which an over-emphasis on efficiency alone can cause more harm than good. As enterprise architects, tasked with creating enterprise structures and capabilities that are ‘efficient on purpose’, we need some means to keep aware of the whole enterprise at all times, right down into the details of day-to-day work.

This book introduces a suite of tools and techniques to fulfil that need. These include SEMPER, which not only provides a rapid diagnostic to measure enterprise effectiveness, but automatically identifies appropriate interventions for change; and SCORE, a versatile replacement for SWOT analysis.

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Published: May 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-04-3

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Dowsing is a way to use your body’s own responses to find fresh answers for practical questions. The most popular tool for dowsing is a pendulum – anything from a ring on a string, a crystal pendant or a builder’s plumb-bob. Although the basics can be learnt in a matter of minutes, the real skill is in learning to make sense of the subtle responses that ascend from our inner knowing – and it’s that part of dowsing that is the main focus of this book. (more…)

Published: May 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-06-7

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Dowsing is a way of using your body’s own reflexes to interpret the world around you. By establishing what your reflex responses mean, it is possible to find hidden objects, to understand things more clearly, and to develop new and better ways of decision-making. (more…)

Published: December 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-02-9

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For more than a decade, enterprise architecture has been comfortably ensconced within the IT domain. Yet in many organisations, the gap between business and IT is more like a gaping chasm, whilst some other silos are more like separate worlds. To gain the best business benefits from architecture, it’s time to move out, bridging the silos to link everything the enterprise is and does.

This book provides a structured ‘conversion course’ for IT-architects wanting to get to grips with the much broader scope of enterprise-scale architecture. (more…)

Published: May 2008

ISBN: 978-1-906681-00-5

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Enterprise architecture started as a formal business discipline some years ago as a means to rein in the cost and complexity of IT systems. Yet whilst enterprise-architects are still most often found in IT departments, and most frameworks such as Zachman, FEAF and TOGAF are strictly IT-centric, it does not belong under IT at all. In practice, real enterprise architecture is concerned with the structure of the entire enterprise - the integration of everything the enterprise is and does.

This book introduces a new approach to tackle the much broader scope of enterprise-scale architecture, using a systematic, iterative process for architecture development with a framework based on the well-known Group Dynamics project life-cycle.

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The General books list includes books on a variety of different and often uncategorisable themes.

The Social Challenges series presents new and challenging perspectives on social, political and economic themes.

The Enterprise Architecture series presents new developments on theory, principles and practice of enterprise architecture - moving beyond IT to the whole enterprise.

The Alternate Realities series presents theory, practice, knowledge and skills to develop new ways to experience the deeper realities of our world.