E-book of Wombat & Cockie

Published: 26 June 2009

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ISBN: 978-1-906681-20-3

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“Me? I’m the good guy, I’m the Candy-Man. I make parties happen, give people a good time, keep everything sweet; and yeah, keep the money rollin’ in. Until some stupid shithead turns up and tries to spoil the party. A shithead like you.”

Cockie is doing well in the dog-eat-dog dominance-games of big drug-deals in the big city. He’s right up there, with the right house, the right girl, his own crew, his own clientele; won’t be long till he gets the Maserati that he craves, that will prove he’s made it all the way to the top. He knows how to win; anyone who challenges him will lose, and lose hard. But none of this will work against Wombat, a single-minded single mother who won’t play the game his way - and it’s a fight that soon sends his world spinning out of control…

This up-to-date version of The Rake’s Progress is set in present-day Australia, yet also uses a Dreamtime motif in which each player aligns with the characteristics and character of the respective bird or animal Dreaming. Beneath this, there are references to some subtle implications of present-day politics and economics; and at a deeper level again it also explores ideas about self-responsibility and ‘rights’-based evasions of responsibility, the impacts of possession and dispossession, and the dysfunctionality of the ubiquitous addictions to violence and abuse.

Originally intended as a film-script, this annotated edition gives the detailed background to the story, and shows how the Dreamtime motif acts as a powerful metaphor to describe real characters and their real-world choices. It also identifies the underlying mechanisms of abuse and violence applied in each incident in the story, and how they are used - yet ultimately fail - within our everyday experience.

Author Tom Graves is best known as a writer on a broad range of non-fiction topics - from the structure of organisations to the structure of magic, and much more besides. He applies the same perceptive eye and acerbic humour to this story, using fiction to explore ‘undiscussable’ themes of the present day.

Three-page ‘manifesto’ on power and responsibility in the workplace, from Power and Response-ability - use this as a reference sheet whilst working.

Published: 21 June 2009

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Preview published: April 2009

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Full title: Doing Enterprise Architecture: process and practice in the real enterprise

Published: April 2009

ISBN: 978-1-906681-18-0

Price: £25.00

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• e-book sample

See also:

• framework reference-sheet
• methodology reference-sheet
• Visio 2003 template for Functional Business Model

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When you’re doing enterprise architecture, what should you actually do, in what sequence, for what business purpose? What skills and leadership do you need? What results should you expect? And how can you prove the business value of what you do?

For process and practice in the real enterprise, frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, FEAF and Zachman will all help, but it’s these practical concerns that often matter most. And that’s what this book will show you.

Topics covered include:

• how to extend existing IT-centric architecture to the whole of the enterprise
• how to identify business vision, values, structure and purpose, and include these as core anchors for your enterprise architecture
• how to map business functions, services, information-systems and process flows across the whole enterprise
• how to respond to changes in strategy, regulation, market and environment
• how to plan for business-continuity, disaster-recovery and risk-management
• how to tackle intractable ‘wicked problems’ in the business context
• how to keep maintaining and extending the agility and value of the architecture

If you want to bring your enterprise architecture practice to its full business potential, 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.

.ZIP archive containing shapes-stencil, base template and ‘how-to’ instruction document, for creating a Business Functional Model (or Enterprise Function Model) in Visio 2003, as described in the book The Service Oriented Enterprise.

Published: 26 January 2009

Download: free - click here (ZIP archive, 169.13 KB). The archive contains the following four files:

• function-model.vss (Visio 2003 stencil to create function-models)
• function-model-howto.doc (Word document describing the function-model process)
• function-model-tpl.vst (Visio 2003 base-template for function-models)
• README.txt (contents-description)

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Preview e-book of The Service-Oriented Enterprise (contents and sample chapters)

Preview published: January 2009

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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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• see also two-page methodology reference sheet

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ISBN: 978-1-906681-16-6

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• e-book sample
• Visio 2003 template for Functional Business Model

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• IT Governance
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• IT Governance

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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