by Rob Malcolm | Jun 16, 2026 | Glossary
📝 Design Thinking and Strategic Thinking — Complementary approaches that explore possibilities, anticipate consequences, and shape future outcomes. Design Thinking focuses on creating and improving. It is concerned with understanding needs, generating alternatives,...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 16, 2026 | Glossary
📝 Dialogue, Dialectic & Debate: Conversation types are used for different purposes in advocacy and enquiry in the quest to seek truth and understanding. Organisations rely on conversations to exchange information, challenge assumptions, make decisions, and build...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 16, 2026 | Glossary
📝 Enterprise Architecture The practice of building shared organisational understanding through models, language, and structured knowledge. Enterprise Architecture (EA) helps organisations develop a common understanding of what they do, how they work, the information...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 16, 2026 | Glossary
📝 Common Data Model — A high-level representation of the key subjects and relationships important to an organisation. A Common Data Model (CDM) is a model of ‘what the business deals with.’ It contains a shared representation of the concepts, entities, and...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 15, 2026 | Glossary
📝 Basho — A collective experience of coherence, connection, and shared meaning within a social field. Basho is a collective experience of coherence, connection, and shared meaning within a social field. It may emerge when people develop sufficient trust, a shared...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 15, 2026 | Glossary
📝 Ba: A shared context or space where relationships, knowledge, learning, and meaning emerge through interaction. The Japanese concept of Ba was introduced into management thinking by Nonaka and Konno to describe the environments in which knowledge is created, shared,...