enterprise canvas – Tom Graves / Tetradian

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Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds

Posted on 11 April 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures — 5 Comments ↓

It began with an octopus; wandered into an accidental remark about “a flocking of Boyds”; and then drifted off somewhat sideways from there. But seems that this crabwise shuffle may be leading somewhere useful – for my current explorations of…

Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, John Boyd, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making

Service, product and architecture terminology

Posted on 4 April 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — No Comments ↓

This one’s a follow-on to the ‘Service, product, service‘ post, but with an emphasis on the role of architecture-terminology itself, rather than any specific item referred to by that terminology. This starts with a private LinkedIn-message that a colleague sent…

Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, product, service, taxonomy, terminology

Service, product, service

Posted on 3 April 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 7 Comments ↓

What’s the relationship between product and service? And if, as in the Enterprise Canvas model, we assert that ‘everything is or represents a service’, what then is a product? The short-answer is that a product is a ‘frozen’ service – a…

Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, product, service

New book: ‘Changes – a business novel’

Posted on 25 May 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Scribbles / writing — 6 Comments ↓

Delighted to say I’ve just published my ‘business-novel’ Changes. Hooray! More details are at https://leanpub.com/tb-changes . Here’s the cover: And here’s the blurb: Marco has a new job: Head of Organizational Change. But his bright new plan to bring the company into the…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business transformation, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, methodology, narrative, paradigm, power, responsibility, SCAN, Scribbles / writing, sense-making, story, strategy

Structure, story and relational-assets

Posted on 19 January 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 14 Comments ↓

This is an attempt to get back towards ‘Normal Service Will Be Resumed…‘ – I don’t know how coherent it will be, but it’s a start, anyway… Over the past few weeks I’ve had a stream of very good questions from Eric…

Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, relational-asset, service-oriented enterprise, story, taxonomy

Why service, function and capability

Posted on 27 September 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 13 Comments ↓

Ah definitions, definitions – so many to choose from! But somehow, only a limited number of labels to go around, to share out amongst all those definitions? Which means that people end up using the same labels for different things,…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, capability, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, function, service architecture, services, taxonomy

Pervasives and the VSM algedonic link

Posted on 27 July 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, Power and responsibility — No Comments ↓

How do we keep on track to enterprise purpose? Perhaps more to the point, how can we know when we’re falling off-track, in time to recover? To me, one of the keys here is the perhaps least-known part of the…

Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, responsibility, viable system model, vsm

Services and disservices – 6: Assessment and actions

Posted on 22 July 2015 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — No Comments ↓

Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – they either don’t work at all, or they serve someone else’s needs. Or desires. Or something of that kind, anyway. And therein lie a huge range of…