In this section you’ll find a variety of white papers, brochures and other items for free download:
See also the
Clients section for consultancy examples and client-only downloads.
Product/service brochures
Tetradian profile and integral model (30kb) - Business profile, including summary of the integral ‘soul model' or tetradian.
Five elements of workplace dynamics (27kb) - Brochure for the
Five Elements workshop
Five Elements integration (64kb) - Brochure for the the extended version of the
Five Elements workshop
Power on purpose (26kb) - Brochure for the
Power on Purpose workshop
The skills-labyrinth (39kb) - Brochure for the
Skills-labyrinth workshop
Books and white-papers - enterprise-architecture
Enterprise architecture and the service-oriented enterprise (
large: 850kb) - Presentation to TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference, Glasgow, April 2008
How to create a Functional Business Model (164kb) - for enterprise-architecture: descriptive notes and Visio 2003 stencil and template
Real Enterprise-Architecture: Beyond IT to the whole enterprise (
large: 1867kb) - First release of the enterprise-architecture book)
Whole-of-enterprise architecture: Extending enterprise-architecture beyond IT (
large: 1150kb) - Criteria for an enterprise-architecture for the whole organisation, and existing enterprise-architecture frameworks
Architecture as system: Enterprise-architecture, service-architecture and the Viable System Model (455kb) - Using system-theory to extend and simplify whole-of-organisation service-oriented architectures
Vision, role, mission, goal: A framework for business motivation (203kb) - Definitions and process to create a 'audit-trail' for business-motivation
Introduction to SCORE (186kb) - An introduction to SCORE - a more versatile alternative to SWOT analysis
Books and white-papers - other subjects
Power and response-ability - a one-minute summary (25kb) - A one-page summary of some of the core principles of the power-model used in Tetradian frameworks.
Power and response-ability - a ten-minute overview (40kb) - A ‘manifesto’-style overview of some of the core principles of the power-model used in Tetradian frameworks, and its implications in the business context.
Power and response-ability - the human side of systems (396kb) - Complete 100-page ‘mini-book’ on some of the core principles of the power-model used in Tetradian frameworks, and its implications in the business context.
Published articles
Stealth Foresight for Innovation: creating support for creative change in large organisations in Australia [Tom Graves] (143kb) - On techniques to embed foresight capabilities within conventional business-strategy tools. (Journal of Futures Studies, November 2007)
Inverting Murphy [Tom Graves] (62kb) - Brief ‘ideas’ article on the constructive side of Murphy’s Law (“In The Picture” magazine, July 2001).
Managing Intuition In The Workplace [Tom Graves] (37kb) - Brief ‘how-to’ article on assisting development of judgement based on intuition and ‘gut feel’ in the work context. (ULiveandLearn.com, July 2000)
The Relationship Is The Asset [Tom Graves] (70kb) - Brief ‘ideas’ article on the dangers of the phrase “Our people are our greatest asset!” (“In The Picture” magazine, November 2001)
Lectures, essays and other presentations
Copyright: a ‘civilisational challenge’? [Tom Graves] (42kb) - Review of opinions on Internet regarding developments in copyright issues and copyright law. (May 2002)
Five Elements To Model Workplace Dynamics [Tom Graves] (183kb) - Extending the well-known Group Dynamics model with Chinese five-element theory to create a more versatile tool for mapping workplace dynamics. (Formal paper for 5th Annual Spirituality, Leadership and Management Conference, Couran Cove, Queensland, Australia, December 2002.)
Global knowledge: three approaches to distributed communities of practice [Tom Graves] (40kb) - Comparative review of three books describing different approaches to management of distributed knowledge. (November 2002)
Learning From The Past [Tom Graves] (89kb) - Knowledge management, organisational culture and the ‘learning organisation’; includes a brief description of the ‘After Action Review’ process. (‘Notes View’ version of Powerpoint for B2B Cafe Business Network, Melbourne, May 2003.)
Paradigms of property [Tom Graves] (59kb) - Identifies characteristics of four distinct classes of property - physical, intellectual, relational, intentional - and explores the implications of their differences in the business context. (November 2002)
Review: Peter Drucker - The Next Society [Tom Graves] (39kb) - Review of Peter Drucker’s Economist survey ‘The Next Society’. (March 2002)
