Two-page summary of architecture framework from Bridging the Silos - use this as a reference sheet whilst working.

Published: 27 December 2008

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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.

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Two-page summary of architecture methodology from Bridging the Silos - use this as a reference sheet whilst working.

Published: 19 October 2008

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Two-page summary of disciplines from Disciplines of Dowsing - use this as a reference-sheet whilst working.

Published: 24 September 2008

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E-book of Disciplines of Dowsing

Published: 8 September 2008

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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.

In a lighthearted, engaging and refreshingly open style, two of the most experienced dowsers in present-day earth-mysteries research - writer Tom Graves and archaeographer Liz Poraj-Wilczynska - explain what can and does go wrong in dowsing practice, and what to do to get it right. They guide you past the pitfalls that cause so many dowsing problems, and show you how to improve the reliability of your results. You’ll explore how to:

• use the Four Disciplines of Dowsing - artist, scientist, mystic and magician
• switch between the disciplines in seamless practice
• use psychology and physiology of perception to enhance your awareness
• avoid the Seven Sins of Dubious Discipline - hype, newage and the like
• know how, where, when and why to use, or not use, your dowsing skills

This book also introduces a new technique of deviceless dowsing, using GPS technology to map intuitive sensings and their locations at any dowsing sites.

Illustrated throughout with useful anecdotes and exercises, this is one book you’ll want to keep close to hand whenever you use dowsing in your work.

Preview e-book of Power and Response-ability (contents and sample chapters)

Published: 25 July 2008

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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.

This enlightening and enlivening book explains the interplay of power, property and responsibility in the business context - how it works, why it doesn’t, and what to do about it. Topics covered include:

• how to identify power in the workplace - both functional and dysfunctional
• how to enhance responsibility and ‘response-ability’ at work
• how to resolve differences of scale, from ‘I’ to ‘We’ to ‘Us’ to ‘Them’
• how to avoid ‘power-traps’ that could put the enterprise at risk
• how to design systems that improve purpose-fulfilment, relationship-management and knowledge-technology in the enterprise

The book includes a diagnostic checklist on power, property and responsibility, and also describes the background to other Tetradian tools and techniques such as the SEMPER whole-of-enterprise metric - see SEMPER and SCORE: enhancing enterprise effectiveness.

If you want to include the human side of systems in your enterprise-architecture, 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 have covered 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.

• Enterprise-architecture: SEMPER and SCORE: enhancing enterprise effectiveness
• General fiction: Eureka! - the annotated script