It demonstrates the results of applying Principles of Organic Business Design to the organisation of business. A few of Organic Business Organisation theory definition elements require a new understanding and reinterpretation. A real-world example for one of the retail giants is analysed.
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Agile Business Capability
An enterprise behaviour is expressed via two types of business capabilities – managerial and actionable. The businesses need an additional mechanism of keeping them agile to the economic environment. Such a mechanism has to be self-adjusting to the market dynamics. This is not about new competitive capabilities and technologies (Web 3.0, Web 4.0…), but about a new model of the business capability itself that can naturally link with the market where the pace of external changes attains or even exceeds the pace of their adoption inside the company.
The Major Principles of the Organic Business Design
Dynamics of market changes as well as internal transformation in the organisations are quite high and accelerating. They have reached the degree where the traditional hierarchical business structure (mechanical model) steadily and speedily loses its efficiency and effectiveness. Though known for a long time, the organic business model proves that it is the most adequate for dynamic business transformations.
Five Characteristics of an Organic Business
Little doubt exists that there ought to be a direct connection between the external environment in which a company (or any organisation) operates and its internal makeup. Every optimal organisation is dependent on prevailing dynamics in its external (and to some extent internal) environment. Organically organised business is the most adequate for management in highly dynamic economic and technical environments.
AI & AgenticAI Security
Absolute security: now no one will be able to break the door of my house…
Ethical AI May Not Control Ethics of the User
This is What We Have I’ve asked MS Copilot a simple statistical question about AI, and it failed to give me an accurate answer. The question was, “How many publications exist today about ethics for AI?” The Copilot, classified by McKinsey & Co. as the Individual Augmentation, i.e., dedicated to the routine daily questions from people, …
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When Cybercrime Helps Common People (digital Robin Hoods)
On 30 April 2025, the Computing online magazine published an article “Dark LLMs designed for cybercrime are on the rise”. The author has written, “Cybercriminals are increasingly adapting large language models for criminal purposes”. Well, yes, but not always… The interviewer Brian Krebs talked with self-proclaimed “grey hat” hacker Rafael Morais about jailbreaking LLMs for …
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#Sib #Pattern for #Microservice #Fault #Tolerance
Fault tolerance requirement was known for a long time before Microservices were defined. This requirement has surfaced again because when working with relatively small applications or components like Microservices, it is much easier to observe fault tolerance and it replicates at a higher scale than when working with monolith applications. There are no any special …
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How TO: #Microservices and #Eventholder – what is what for
For people who are in the IT industry for years, the comparison of SOA to EDA and vice versa is not news. For the new generation, their fundamental difference may be not that obvious, especially, when the architecture implementation relates to Microservices. The basis of SOA is a client-server/service model. Yes, it is the old …
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How to: Integration in an Enterprise. White Paper
In our days of digital omni-interconnection is one of the top buzz-words like “innovation” or “architecture” were recent. It seems that all IT specialists – developers, designers, architects, and managers – are in need for better understanding and use of the term “integration”. For example, what is the difference between “integration” and interaction”? Also, if …
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Digital Pandemic of the Brain
We are humans yet, aren’t we? Recently, I had to apply for a DBS to the UK Government. For the services like this, they have promoted a ‘universal’ digital identity control solution based on the Digidentity app, and this has appeared a game-stopper. (Fortunately, GOV UK Verify still have regular way to apply, which requires …
RISKS OF BUILDING SHARED SERVICES IN A “BROWN FIELD”
Shared Service (SS) is not a new concept and we have a lot of publications about this subject. I hope that many would agree that a SS appears differently from the business and technology perspectives. Since every service is valuable to its consumers by the service functionality and outcomes, this is all that is needed …
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SHARED SERVICES IN A NUTSHELL
When recently I moved from banking to the public domain, I found with surprise that UK Government is currently focusing on “#shared #services” (#ShaSer) while this topic had been addressed in banking for a decade, at least, ago. So, what the heck is ShaSer? Wikipedia states, “Shared services is the provision of a service by one …
⌗ARCHIMATE TRANSFORMES ITSELF INTO LOREM IPSUM
For the last 2.5 decades IT architects used Unified Modelling Language (UML) notation. This graphical notation and the concept supporting it was created by Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh while working at Rational software. In 1997, the Object Management Group (TOG) adopted UML as a standard for its members,. Later on, UML became a …
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DOES #ENTERPRISE #ARCHITECTURE NEED #PROTECTION IN A #DIGITAL WORLD?
Not long time ago, hashtag#McKinsey & Company decided to advise Enterprise Architects on how they have to change themselves to survive in the digital revolution. Well, it might be a noble mission if such a “business case” was strong. McKensey – the trusted advisor to the world’s leading businesses, governments, and institutions – had identified …
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A short-term tactical solution may be good only if you have the long-term solution observed/understood already
During a recession, every company faces a dilemma – where to put its management attention and funds – in the short-term surviving projects/products or the long-term ones as well. IMHO, if you are concerned about survival only, you will lose immediately after the recession ends even if you survive it. My advice is to put …
IF EXPERTS STILL DEFINE EA DIFFERENTLY, WHAT IS EA ACTUALLY?
I am thankful to Capstera Software for collecting several different definitions of Enterprise Architecture (EA). This variety, which I will discuss today, raises a flag of the immaturity of the term, including concerns about whether it is about enterprise as a whole as well as whether it is about architecture (a standardised term by IEEE) …
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DevOps are not enough
Induction I’ve read somewhere that the major criterion of DevOps work is running code. If DevOps is engaged in the creation of products for consumers, just running code is not a criterion – it is not enough. There are, at least, two requirements – the code must deliver the value it has been written for …
Finishing 2022 in Enterprise Architecture
Michael Poulin Enterprise/Solution Architect: Integration, Governance, Digital Transformation, Services, Security December 31, 2022 Finishing 2022 in hashtag#Enterprise hashtag#Architecture (EA), I’d like to review the observation of hashtag#EA conducted by the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE). This observation is set around the long-time question, “Why do Enterprise Architecture efforts fail?” The old wisdom states that …
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I asked MS Copilot…
Draws the dialogue between the Author and MS Copilot about ethics and Ethical AI.
HOW to ARCHITECT for DEVELOPERS 