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How do we think? - modelling our own modelling
Tom Graves, Tetradian Consulting: April 2015
the futures of business
A question:
How do we think?
We spend our professional lives helping others with
their thinkingtheir taskstheir needs
we’ve done it for decades…
CC-BY Jon Bennet via Wikimedia
visualising complex information…
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Yet what support do we needfor our thinking?
our tasks?our needs?
How can we helpourselves?
So how do we think?How do we do our work?
We could describe our workas a fractal, recursive loop:
•sense•make-sense•decide•act
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The first step is the hardest…
capturing ideas…
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we iterate towards a solution…
CC-BY-ND Damien Newman
(Damien Newman’s ‘The Squiggle’)
using all kinds of tools…
based on work by Damien Newman
(whatever tools work best for us)
but the tools don’t connect…
based on work by Damien Newman
(no direct means to join everything up)
so we join the dots by hand…
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How can we stopdotting the joins
with all these disparate tools?
How can wejoin up our tools
to supportjoined-up thinking?
A story so far…
Three questionsto ask of anything…
(which really does mean ‘anything’)
What kind of thing are you?(and why are you the way you are?)
What are you associated with? (and why that association?)
How do you change? (and why that change?)
Important:everything as an‘equal citizen’
ideas towards a data-structure…
(everything as an ‘equal citizen’)
envisioning a unified toolset…
(shared data-structure provides continuity)
continuity across the Squiggle…
illustrates work by Damien Newman
(shared data-structure provides continuity)
The real scope…
lots of dots…
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capture from whiteboard…
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capture from sticky-notes…
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capture from sketches…
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capture image to connect…
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connecting from sketchnotes…
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structured sketch-diagrams…
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free-form to structured…
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formal, fully-structured…
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maybe into this kind of format...
anywhere, any device…
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maybe used together…
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drawing and digital combined…http://kcamara.com/ANALOG-MEMORY-DESK
portables and handhelds…
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even down to dumb-phone…
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or maybe here…
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a complete intersection…
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So here’s the challenge…
A core constraint:
everything depends on everything else
A core principle:
things work betterwhen they work together
on purpose
What happens in the design-process?
In each stage, what information do we need to capture? - and why?
What information do we need to share?- and why?
How do we 'join the dots' acrossthe whole of the Intersection space?
How do you think?(how do you describe what you think?)
How do you connect the dots?(for others as well as for yourself)
What would you needto help you do it better?
Contact: Tom Graves
Company: Tetradian Consulting
Twitter: @tetradian ( http://twitter.com/tetradian )
Weblog: http://weblog.tetradian.com
Slidedecks: http://www.slideshare.net/tetradian
Publications: http://tetradianbooks.com and http://leanpub.com/u/tetradian
Books: • The service-oriented enterprise: enterprise architecture and viable services (2009)
• Mapping the enterprise: modelling the enterprise as services with the Enterprise Canvas (2010)
• Everyday enterprise-architecture: sensemaking, strategy, structures and solutions (2010)
• Doing enterprise-architecture: process and practice in the real enterprise (2009)
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