In a multiple-stakeholder enterprise – which, in practice, is the case for every enterprise – how do we make sense of how each stakeholder views the context? What’s important to them? What’s not important to them? And why? And given…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
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Identifying meaning in context: VPECS and VPEC-T
Tagged with: Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, sense-making, service-cycle, vpec-t
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Costs of acquisition, retention, de-acquisition
How much does it cost to acquire a customer? To retain a customer? To lose a customer? And in what sense of ‘cost’? In part this one was triggered by reading through my relatively-new copy of Business Model You, and…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, costs, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, marketing, paradigm, sales, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Direction and governance flows in Enterprise Canvas
This one’s a quick item of technical detail about service-modelling with Enterprise Canvas, as requested by Oliver Baier: OliverBaier: Enterprise Canvas: Does the XG flow go down to the next *lower* layer? If not, how does it relate to eg…
Tagged with: direction, enterprise canvas, governance, service model
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Enterprise Canvas and the Service Cycle
How do we make sense of a service, for service-review and service-design? How can we usefully partition the service-activities to help make sense of that service? And how do we link those activities to the various forms of value that…
What is a value-proposition?
‘Value-proposition’ is a term much-bandied-about in business-models and the like. Yet what exactly is it? A tweet by Alex Osterwalder pointed me to an article by Steve Blank on ‘How to build a billion-dollar startup‘, which included this brief section on the role of…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business model, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, marketing, value-proposition
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Service, function and capability (an addendum)
How can we clarify the confusion over service, capability and function in enterprise-architecture models? Andrew Marosy made a comment to my previous post on this that really needs to be brought out here in full: You can also visualise a…
Service, function and capability (again)
How can we distinguish between service, capability and function in enterprise-architecture models? This is one of those perennial questions that keeps returning time and time again, and it’s one of the key confusions that Enterprise Canvas aims to resolve. But…
Enterprise Canvas ebook is now available
Following on from the SCAN ebook, the next in the new series of ‘Tetradian Weblogs’ ebooks now hits the virtual streets – a selection of blog-posts on the Enterprise Canvas notation and model-type: Enterprise Canvas: the Tetradian weblogs Recommended price…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, complexity, ebook, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Leanpub, sense-making
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [2]
Why do enterprise-architects and other generalist disciplines find it so challenging to prove the value of their work? Why does it seem that there are ‘no jobs for generalists’? And what can we do in practice to resolve this challenge?…
Tagged with: Business, employment, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, generalist, generalist vs specialist, jobs, RBPEA, recruitment, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
