Tag Archives: organisational design

From Idea to Institution: How the West Midlands Cyber & Tech Veterans Model Evolved

Leave a Reply · 18/10/2026 · 21, 90, 90, 90, 90 popular

The Cyber Veterans Alliance began with Ryan Jones’s idea for an enduring veteran-led cyber community. I subsequently helped develop that concept into a structured, independent operating model. The later West Midlands Cyber & Tech Veterans CIC proposition contains recognisable elements of that earlier work, along with substantial subsequent development. This article celebrates that evolution, examines the documented contributions along the way, and makes a simple case for collaboration and fair attribution.

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Stop Making Sense: Semantic Collapse in the Enterprise

Leave a Reply · 25/03/2026 · 1, 1, 9, 215, 215 popular

Enterprise transformation relies on shared technical language. When terms like API, normalisation, and microservice are redefined inside an organisation, architectural reasoning degrades, and structural ambiguity increases. Semantic drift creates friction, weakens governance, and slows adaptability. Precision in terminology is not elitism but architectural hygiene. Without a stable vocabulary, even modernised estates become harder to understand, coordinate, and evolve.

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Re-Legacy: The Debt of Deferred Structure

Leave a Reply · 11/03/2026 · 0, 1, 5, 82, 82 popular

Cloud migration often preserves rather than eliminates legacy when structural redesign is deferred. Re-legacy occurs when outdated domain boundaries, embedded behavioural coupling, and implicit integrations are rehosted under modern infrastructure abstractions. This compounds structural debt, financialises complexity, and stabilises fragility under the banner of transformation. True modernisation requires deliberate structural intervention (redefining boundaries, clarifying state ownership, and reducing coupling) not merely upgrading the substrate.

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Scale by Geoffrey West Reviewed: Where Physics Meets Hubris

Leave a Reply · 11/02/2026 · 0, 4, 33, 304, 304 popular

Geoffrey West’s Scale seeks universal mathematical laws of growth across biology, cities, and corporations. It’s bold, partly right, and mostly over-extended. The biological physics hold up; the social analogies don’t. Useful for thinking about efficiency, fragility, and systemic limits; but best treated as heuristic, not law.

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What It Means To Be A Business/Technology Architect In A Post Agile, Post AI World

Leave a Reply · 30/01/2026 · 0, 1, 6, 157, 157 popular

What does it mean to be an architect in a post-agile, post-AI enterprise? This article explores architecture as sense-making, navigation, and organisational memory rather than artefact production. It examines the evolving role of domain and enterprise architects, the value they bring to fast-moving change programmes, and how good architecture enables speed without fragility by preserving coherence, optionality, and shared understanding over time.

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