Just thought I’d give a quick update on some of the work I’ve been doing here in Mexico with my colleague Michael Smith over the past couple of weeks. But first, in the tradition of Alex Osterwalder, here’s a panorama…
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Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Blog Archives
Three EA gigs in Mexico
Tagged with: Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, holomap, Mexico
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
On value-governance
What do I mean, when I talk about ‘value-governance’ in an enterprise-architecture sense? In Enterprise Canvas, what does that ‘Value Governance’ cell represent? What do its services actually do, for the service, the organisation and the overall enterprise? This one’s for…
Tagged with: beneficiary, Business, economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, governance, investor, RBPEA, shareholder-value, Society, stakeholder, stakeholder-value, value, values
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society
Enterprise Canvas for government regulator
A really nice quick-question from David Baxter: Can Enterprise Canvas be modified for use by a government regulator? The quick answer is, yes, of course – it’s a generic model for how services of any type interrelate with each other:…
Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, governance, government
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture
Managers, leaders and hierarchies
Is ‘manager’ the same as ‘leader’? Are leaders always managers? And are hierarchies – and, in particular, classic management-hierarchies – always a natural, necessary and unavoidable fact of (larger) enterprises? These questions came up for me whilst reading three articles…
Tagged with: bob sutton, Business, business architecture, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Five Elements model, hierarchy, leadership, management
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society
CRUD, CRUDE and other action-acronyms
Anyone working with data would be familiar with the CRUD acronym – Create, Read, Update, Delete – that describe ‘atomic’-level actions on data. But how well does it work with other asset-types – not just data and other virtual items,…
Tagged with: asset, assets, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture
Positioning Enterprise Canvas in enterprise-architecture work
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…
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
