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I started work in the computer industry for two reasons. Firstly, it was a profession that allowed one to work on a wide variety of problems in many different industries. Secondly, it was possible to work in many different countries. And I think both of these reasons have been fulfilled.

I was introduced to systems thinking at a very early age. Gerd Sommerhoff taught me at school, and I went on to read Bateson and others when I was at university.

Key Ideas

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I have always tried to find new ways of connecting ideas. I have published many new ideas, but I have not always been very good at promoting them, so I find other people reinventing them later. Sigh. However, sometimes I get an acknowledgement, which is nice.

Enterprise modelling

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worked on enterprise modelling in the early 1990s - some of these ideas are now coming into fashion

Systems thinking and lenscraft

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Component-based business

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my book on the Component-Based Business (2001) introduced the idea of breaking a business into logical components many years before IBM discovered Business Component Modelling

Organic planning for SOA

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my ideas on organic planning for service oriented architecture, originally published in 2004, have been acknowledged by a number of authors

  • Michael Bell, SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis (Wiley 2010)
  • Tony Bidgood, ArchiMate: A Standard for Enterprise System Modelling (CBDI Journal, August 2008)
  • Marc Lankhorst et al, Enterprise Architecture at Work (Springer, 2005)

for a brief summary, see this slideshare presentation Organic Planning

Organizational Intelligence

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currently writing a book on organizational intelligence


Education

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Honours and associations

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Work

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Currently the director of the Next Practice Research Initiative. Has taught courses at City University, Brunel University and the Copenhagen Business School.


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Blogs

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