User:RichardVeryard/About me
I started work in the computer industry for two reasons. Firstly, it was a profession that allowed one to work on a wide variety of problems in many different industries. Secondly, it was possible to work in many different countries. And I think both of these reasons have been fulfilled.
I was introduced to systems thinking at a very early age. Gerd Sommerhoff taught me at school, and I went on to read Bateson and others when I was at university.
Key Ideas[edit]
I have always tried to find new ways of connecting ideas. I have published many new ideas, but I have not always been very good at promoting them, so I find other people reinventing them later. Sigh. However, sometimes I get an acknowledgement, which is nice.
Enterprise modelling[edit]
worked on enterprise modelling in the early 1990s - some of these ideas are now coming into fashion
Systems thinking and lenscraft[edit]
- contributed a key paper to the Systems Engineering for Business Process Change research programme - now available at Scribd Reasoning about systems and their properties (2000)
Component-based business[edit]
my book on the Component-Based Business (2001) introduced the idea of breaking a business into logical components many years before IBM discovered Business Component Modelling
Organic planning for SOA[edit]
my ideas on organic planning for service oriented architecture, originally published in 2004, have been acknowledged by a number of authors
- Michael Bell, SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis (Wiley 2010)
- Tony Bidgood, ArchiMate: A Standard for Enterprise System Modelling (CBDI Journal, August 2008)
- Marc Lankhorst et al, Enterprise Architecture at Work (Springer, 2005)
for a brief summary, see this slideshare presentation Organic Planning
Organizational Intelligence[edit]
currently writing a book on organizational intelligence
Education[edit]
- 1966-1972 Sevenoaks School, where he was taught by Gerd Sommerhoff
- 1973-1976 MA Mathematics and Philosophy Merton College, Oxford
- 1976-1977 MSc Computing Science, Imperial College London
- 1986-1992 (part time) MBA Open University
Honours and associations[edit]
Work[edit]
Currently the director of the Next Practice Research Initiative. Has taught courses at City University, Brunel University and the Copenhagen Business School.