Brain Therapy, Exercise 1: Business Architecture Example – The Architecture of Fear

25 February 2009 by admin.

The old joke that describes my semi-former profession goes, “Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach, consult.” I am, furthermore and of late, a semi-retired consultant, on what I like to think of as a medical sabbatical (or disability leave of absence) whilst recovering from spinal cord and brain injuries that temporarily knocked me out of my mainstream game.  

Brain Therapy includes exercises done as a part of my daily routine to integrate speech and language pathology into my “home therapy” program. Recently, I added a fun exercise to my therapy routine that starts with the task to answer the question “What can we do to make the make the world a better place?” Now that is a task, but I hope to have a really strong brain one day. Why aim low?

To answer this question, I will do some “Brain Therapy Exercises” utilizing tools and tricks from my consultant’s tool-kit. Exercise 1 takes from the tool-kit concepts of architecture, systems analysis, and organizational design to create a Business Architecture Paradigm that reverse engineers the current state of the world to distill an abstract blueprint that shows how the world works and why we see present day, or current state, outcomes.

We may be able to rescue the financial system, bail out industries, and otherwise prop up the systems that have resulted in what we see in the world today. Let us all have hope for the shorter-term. When it comes to the long term, however, I would say to the people of the world, the same thing I tell my clients: “Strategy and planning has a basic theorem – if what you are doing is not working, then do something else. If you keep doing the same thing, you should expect same results.” Experience also shows that change is good.

The preliminary analysis shows the de facto operational business architecture for the world – an Architecture of Fear. Does that sound right (note: this might be a trick question)? Please see the draft below; I would appreciate your feedback. Likewise, anybody think that we, the people of the world, ought to do something different?

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