Architects are designers too. Application-architecture designs link across an array of applications, process-architects design ways to link processes together, business-architects design business-models and their linkage into the everyday practices of the organisation. That much should be obvious, I would presume. …
Another slidedeck that I should have uploaded to Slideshare ages ago: a quick (8-slide) answer to the question ‘What is effectiveness?‘. Understanding overall effectiveness is a core concern for enterprise-architectures, and for all of its subsidiary domain-architectures within the enterprise. …
Finally got round to uploading to Slideshare my old (2006) slidedeck ‘Introduction to SCORE‘. SCORE (Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities, Responses, Effectiveness) is a kind of ‘upgrade’ to the good ol’ SWOT strategy-assessment framework. I developed SCORE perhaps a decade ago when …
One of the comments on the previous post on the unacknowledged risks of ‘cooperative IT’ triggered off an essay-length response that really deserves its own post. So here it is. 🙂 The comment that started it off was from Ric …
Architecture disaster? – we have an app for that! Read more »
Twitter-correspondent Craig Hepburn posted a Tweet this morning pointing to Dion Hinchcliffe‘s excellent ZDNet article, ‘CoIT: how an accidental future is becoming reality‘, about the current rise and rise of ‘consumer IT’ or ‘cooperative IT’: It’s a story as old …
In the previous articles about context-space mapping with the Enterprise Canvas, we looked at the topmost layer, the extended-enterprise and enterprise-descriptor or vision; then the next layer down, summarising all the player in the enterprise ecosystem; and took a first high-level look …
Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 5: Service content Read more »
So far in this series we’ve explored the key concept of the extended-enterprise, used that to summarise the ecosystem in which the organisation operates, and started to model the organisation’s value-proposition and business-relationships. Up until this point we’ve been working top-down, …
Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 4: Rethinking vision bottom-up Read more »
So far in this series we’ve explored enterprise-vision (Enterprise Canvas row-0) and high-level business-context (row-1) in a fairly straightforward way. It’s been much the same as any other conventional ‘top-down’ strategy-development, except that we haven’t really mentioned our own organisation …
Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 3: Value-proposition Read more »
In the previous post in this series we did a quick review of context-space mapping and the Enterprise Canvas, and set out this into practice with a real-world example that, for me, is very close to home: rethinking my own …
Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 2: Business context Read more »
Over on the LinkedIn Business Architecture list, my colleagues Pat Ferdinandi, JD Beckingham and Ron Segal have all helped a lot in challenging me on the Enterprise Canvas concepts. Pat in particular has been has been pushing hard for some …
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