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I Draw Pictures and Talk to People
How to explain to children a profession that helps organisations understand themselves What does an enterprise architect actually do? When my children ask me that, I sometimes say: “I draw pictures and talk to people.” They look at me as if I have just described a surprinsingly simple job. They can draw pictures too. Taltking…
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Architecture of Attention – Why Organisations Work on the Wrong Things
Why organisations do not fail at processes first, but at what they are able to see Organizations often have more processes, data and dashboards than ever before. And yet what matters most sometimes remains without effective attention. This article unfolds the architecture of attention as an Archimetis constellation between Metis, Unfinishedness and Coherence. It asks…
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The Door in the Familiar Room
How familiarity shapes what we notice and why attention sometimes begins with an irritation What we see every day can quietly disappear from perception. This essay explores how familiarity shapes attention, why habit can hide possibilities in plain sight and how a small irritation can reopen the edge of what we notice. Every morning, he…
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Unfinishedness as a Method – Why Early States Are Powerful
An Archimetis essay on rough strcutures, scaffolding and the art of moving from draft to commitment. In ShortUnfinishedness is not a deficit before the result. As a method, it describes a deliberately marked early state that is made visible, versioned, participatory and shaped through clear transitions. It keeps spaces of possibility open, makes assumptions visible…
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Why Parables Emerge in Archimetis
On the Function of Literary Forms in a Space of Thought After a workshop, there is sometimes a sentence left in the minutes that names the decisive point. “Before we define actions, we need to clarify what effect they are meant to create.” Everyone had nodded when it was written down. It sounded reasonable, almost…
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Metis – Intelligent Wisdom in Change
On the art of reading moving reality before systems break There are meetings in which everything seems right. The presentation is clean. The roadmap is plausible. The metrics are green. No one appears unprepared. Every sentence has its place. On the slide, the organization lies there like a calm lake: no waves, no weather, no…
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Archimetis – The Architecture of Thought
How an Unease in Enterprise Architecture Became a Space for Consciousness, Organisation and Change Archimetis grew out of a recurring unease in my work with organisations that an organisation can appear complete on slides and still follow a different order in everyday practice. Processes, roles and systems only reveal part of their reality. Decisions are…
