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…
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Managers, leaders and hierarchies
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
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
