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For system theorists, systems thinkers and natural philosophers.

For enterprise architects, business architects, and software architects.

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I have withdrawn the two books you can see on Amazon.

More recent articles cover most of the topics better, and the four books below are in preparation.

Many of the chapters first appeared as "Articles" you can find via my Linkedin profile.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamberrisford/recent-activity/articles/

 

A Systems Thinker’s view

of Enterprise Architecture

A Systems Thinker’s view

of Description and Reality

A Systems Thinker’s view

of Systems Thinkers

A Systems Thinker’s view

of Sociology

How we describe reality,

and a philosophical

basis for systems thinking.

Comparing and contrasting

systems thinkers’ ideas,

with new insights.

A logical analysis of

social systems thinking and

modern social philosophy.

EA history

EA method history

Zachman’s framework

What TOGAF is and is not

ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010

 

EA today

Positioning EA today

An architecture value stream

Architect roles

 

EA and systems thinking

Intro to the system thinking triad

System theories

System theories and EA

Service-orientation in EA and BA

EA vision and reality

 

EA domain insights

Enterprise business architecture

Enterprise data architecture

Intro to the system thinking triad

Who we are

 

Typology

How we describe things

How we relate things

How we assess truth

How we typify things

Structural and behavioral views

 

Domain knowledge

Domain knowledge  

Vocabularies and grammars

Taxonomic trees

Ontological concept graphs

 

Causality

Determinism and probability

Consciousness and free will

Causal analysis

 

Systemology

Entity and event modeling

The systems thinking triad

ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010

 

Semiotics

The problem of universals

Semiotic and other triads

Preface

 

Foundations

System thinking approaches

Bertalanffy’s ideas - GST

Systems in general

Maturana’s ideas

 

Dynamical systems thinking

Ashby’s ideas - cybernetics

Closed system diagrams

Forrester’s ideas

Meadows’ ideas

Senge’s ideas

 

Activity systems thinking

Event-driven systems

Business architecture

Abstraction from detail

Soft systems thinking ideas

Ackoff’s ideas

Beer’s ideas

 

Deeper thinking

Purpose

Hierarchies of knowledge

Information

Feedback

Self-organization

Change

Complexity

 

System philosophy

Abstracting description from reality

Abstracting systems from reality

The systems thinking triad

Semiotic triads

Types,instances and things

Preface

 

System theory

Introducing systems

Social systems

Social activity systems

Social dynamical systems

Systems that terminate and mutate

 

Part two: Relating to biology

The organism analogy

Social communication

 

Part three: Social systems

Aims and outcomes

Social organization principles

 

Part four: Socio-economics

Money in society

An economy as a dynamical system

Modern monetary theory

 

Part five: Social philosophy

Social history

Social philosophy

Cultural Marxism

 

Part six: Social justice

Post modernism

Identity politics

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Global politics

Sexual politics

Perverse outcomes

Conclusions and remarks