I believe that perfection of form lies in the intersection between intuition, knowledge and person. A singular presence embodying all of this was the late John Boyd. Others who have seeked and found the perfection of form are Bruce Lee, Sun Tzu, John Zachman and Albert Einstein. All of these where or in the case of [...]
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The perfection of form
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged Albert Einstein, Bruce Lee, ea, Enterprise architecture, Intersection, Intuition, John Boyd, John Zachman, perfection of form, Sun Tzu on 2009-05-22 | Leave a Comment »
Real time Enterprise Architecting
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, Open for business, tagged business, dynamic, ea, Enterprise architecture, John Boyd, life cycle, PDCA, real time, target, to-be, Tools on 2009-04-21 | Leave a Comment »
To much time and effort is spent on looking far in to the future. Often enough fixated on a single target architecture, a to-be state that has little to do with the way business is actually being done. It’s time we start utilizing the tools we’ve got to work with rolling architectures. The dynamics of business and [...]
The time factor in EA frameworks
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, tagged Chet Richards, Enterprise architecture, John Boyd, Time as a factor in EA on 2007-10-22 | Leave a Comment »
I was studying the strategy of John Boyd, his theory of practice is focused on the “time factor”. In the presentation “certain to win” by Chet Richards, he has a slide #15 that says:
Time is the only physical parameter with a direction (the “arrow of time.”)
You don’t have an unlimited supply.
Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Sure [...]