SCAN
SCAN
a framework for sensemaking and decision-making - the Tetradian weblogs
About the Book
“Let’s do a quick SCAN on this.”
SCAN is a simple yet powerful framework for sensemaking and decision-making, and, recursively, for assessment and review of processes and results of sensemaking and decision-making. It was initially designed for enterprise-architecture and other business needs, but will also be useful in many other areas.
In essence, SCAN is a form of context-space mapping -- a means by which we make sense of a context, and work towards resolving our requirements in that context, by bouncing back and forth between the 'problem-space' and 'solution-space' in a disciplined way.
This ebook is an edited collection of articles from the Tetradian weblog (http://weblog.tetradian.com), on the SCAN framework. This edition includes all weblog-posts on SCAN up to January 2014; there'll be new editions of this ebook from time to time, to incorporate later posts and practical experience.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- “Let’s do a quick SCAN on this”
- Comparing SCAN and Cynefin
- SCAN – an Ambiguous correction
- Using SCAN: some quick examples
- On SCAN, PDCA, OODA and the acronym-soup
- Ensuring that the Simple stays simple
- SCAN left, SCAN right…
- Domains and dimensions in SCAN
- On sensemaking in enterprise-architectures (1)
- On sensemaking in enterprise-architectures (2)
- On sensemaking in enterprise-architectures (3)
- On sensemaking in enterprise-architecture (4)
- Real-time sensemaking with SCAN
- Belief and faith at the point of action
- Decision-making – belief, fact, theory and practice
- Decision-making – linking intent and action (1)
- Decision-making – linking intent and action (2)
- Decision-making – linking intent and action (3)
- Decision-making – linking intent and action (4)
- Using recursion in sensemaking
- Competence, non-competence and incompetence
- Requisite-variety and stormy weather
- Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test
- Rules, principles, belief and faith
- Checklists and complexity
- Complex, complicated, and Einstein’s dice
- Order, unorder and effectiveness
- Sensemaking and the swamp-metaphor
- Sensemaking – modes and disciplines
- Enterprise-architecture is wicked
- Unbreaking
- More keywords for SCAN
- A simpler SCAN
- SCAN as ‘decision-dartboard’
- SCAN - some recent notes
- Problem-space, solution-space and SCAN
- Knowable and discoverable
- SCANning the toaster
- On metaframeworks in enterprise-architecture
- Metaframeworks in practice, Part 4: Context-space mapping and SCAN
- Methods, mechanics, approaches
- SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis
- Co-inspiring in the Chaotic domain
- Obliquity, serendipity and purpose
- Working with ‘I don’t know’
- Control, complexity and chaos
- Control, complex, chaotic
- Between the boxes
- On human ‘applications’ in EA models
- Principles and checklists
- Best practices – adapt, then adopt
- Reframing entropy in business
- More on reframing entropy in business
- The over-certainties of certification
- The craft of knowledge-work, the role of theory and the challenge of scale
- The science of enterprise-architecture
- Scalability and uniqueness
- Can complex-systems be ‘architected’?
- Avoiding delusions of strategy
- Efficient versus effective
- Four principles – 1: There are no rules
- Four principles – 4: Adaptability is everything
- Four principles for a sane society: Summary
- Four principles for a sane society: an addendum
- A kind of manifesto
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