As I mentioned again quite recently, I’m always pleased to see how others use my work, because there are usually themes in there that I hadn’t seen before. So the other day, whilst listening in on the Open Group webinar…
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Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
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Positioning Enterprise Canvas in enterprise-architecture work
Tagged with: enterprise architects, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Open Group
Posted in Enterprise architecture
Posted in Enterprise architecture
Business Model Canvas beyond startups – Part 3: Back-end
How can we use Business Model Canvas beyond its initial intended context of commercial startups? In particular, how best can we use it to explore the ‘back-end’ of the business-models – the internal and supplier-facing parts – for non-profit organisations and government,…
Business Model Canvas beyond startups – Part 2: Front-end
How can we use Business Model Canvas beyond its initial intended context of commercial startups? In particular, how best can we use it to explore the ‘front-end’ of the business-models – the customer-facing parts – for non-profit organisations and government, and existing commercial businesses…
Business Model Canvas beyond startups – Part 1
Is Business Model Canvas at risk of becoming another TOGAF – a useful tool for a specific context, yet often more of a hindrance than a help wherever people try to use it beyond its original purpose? And if so,…
Every organisation is ‘for-profit’
What’s the fundamental difference between a for-profit organisation, and a not-for-profit one? Or, for that matter, between either of those and, say, a government department, or an NGO (non-governmental organisation)? Short answer: none – because every organisation is a for-profit organisation. The only…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, paradigm, RBPEA, values
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Identifying meaning in context: VPECS and VPEC-T
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…
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
