Nick Gall

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Entries Categorized as 'hybrid thinking'


Collapsonomics of IT

by Nick Gall  |  September 12, 2011  |  1 Comment

[This is a response to an excellent post by JP Rangaswami entitled Wond'ring Aloud. I'm posting it here because the comment system on JP's blog so mangled my HTML reply that it is almost unreadable. Please read JP's post before attempting to read my comments below. Enjoy both of them! -NG] JP, Gartner is embracing [...]

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Motivating people is more important than modeling them

by Nick Gall  |  January 31, 2011  |  16 Comments

There’s a lot of great material to digest in Tom Graves recent post, Modelling people in enterprise-architecture, but I feel it gets off on the wrong foot in two regards. First, the title, "modelling people" [sic], suggests that the crux of the problem is that our models of people need to be greatly improved. But [...]

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Panarchitecture: Architecting a Network of Resilient Renewal

by Nick Gall  |  January 24, 2011  |  5 Comments

Just before the holidays, we published our second major note set on hybrid thinking, which I’ll post about in more detail soon. But what I’m really excited about, and wanted to post about first, was our inaugural note on panarchitecture, a very different kind of architecture. Panarchitecture is a kind of hybrid thinking that combines [...]

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Presenting Hybrid Thinking at Symposium

by Nick Gall  |  October 20, 2010  |  1 Comment

I’ll be presenting on hybrid thinking this afternoon at Gartner Symposium. There’s lots of links to different resources associated with the presentation that I want to share with those attending the talk (or viewing the replay). Hence this post. First, please tweet during the session. The hashtag for Symposium is #GartnerSym. The hashtag for hybrid [...]

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Design Thinking Comes to the US Army

by Nick Gall  |  May 4, 2010  |  1 Comment

Great review by Roger Martin of the US Army Field Manual 5-0: The Operations Process and its embrace of design thinking. His review was published yesterday on the Design Observer website. Martin gives a GREAT backgrounder on how the field manual came to be revised to emphasize design thinking (lots of great links to earlier [...]

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