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We blog to share our story about Working Together, Interweaving, and Modern Work-oriented Architecting. By sharing we can inform and encourage discussions and collaborations on the Interweaved world, we all belong to.

Art, craft, and science

Some think there is only one way to architect or interweave. This is a common misconception! There are many ways, approaches, styles, manners, and theories that architects choose for their practices. Art, craft, and science are three of many elements that can describe an architect's style. Often architects choose a balance between them in their pra...

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Tool of the trade - Talking Point Canvas

A Talking Point Canvas is 1-page communication tool that has talking points for communication. The canvas organise talking points in illustrations, diagrams or boxes and they fit on an A5 to A2 paper, Powerpoint page, or a web page.

The purpose is typically to organise and focus communications, discussions and deliberations on a particular topic consisting of several talking points and dimensions.

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Unlearning

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It is rather luxurious to engage in unlearning the not-so-useful and relearning new things. The inspiring books by Barry O Reilly and Nassim Nicholas Taleb are on my desk.In the books, one aspect struck me early, the proven negative effects of rigid mental models and defensive attitudes towards them. For me, practising design thinking is quite libe...

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Boxology

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Boxology, frames the idea of the Box that represents an important Mockafjong, which is a beautiful thingymajig. It is something wondrous, fascinating and important to talk about. Boxology was created as a result of ironical and empirical research. Boxology is often used and considered important in practices such as management, business analysis, bu...

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In Defence of Differences

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An article in Seedmagazine made me think about an important aspect of Interweaving and Architecting practices that work with communities, enterprises, buildings, or systems. An analogy came into mind, the consideration (the careful thoughts) of Uniformity - Diversity. This particular consideration is bifocal and is part of the foundational knowledg...

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Have you done the MOCKAFJONG test?

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A Mockafjong is a beautiful thingymajig. It is something wondrous, fascinating and important to talk about. When you find yourself in discussions where you wonder what you really are talking about. Try to replace the key "word" used to refer to the centre of the discussion with "Mockafjong". Try replacing "digital transformation" or "capability" wi...

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Triangulation

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The triangulation techniques provide an important instrument that can be used to increase the quality, credibility, validity, and reliability of data, findings, project results, decision-making material, etc. By looking at situations or subject matter from different perspectives, by independent viewers, using complementary methods and techniques, i...

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NEO Generalist

The book "The NEO-Generalist" is a fascinating read, with a surprising connection to Interweaving. It turns out that neo-generalists would make excellent Interweavers with their mindsets. A few examples quotes from the book "The NEO-Generalist", by Kenneth Mikkelsen, Richard Martin, 2016, to illustrates the point. "A neo-generalist is a serial spec...

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