Not quite VPEC-T
Last night, I am very pleased to say, I completed my new book Mapping the Enterprise: modelling the enterprise as services with the Enterprise Canvas – just in time, I hope, to have printed copies available in hand at the …
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Progress on Enterprise Canvas
For the past few weeks I’ve been working with Michael Smith, a colleague in Mexico, to ‘productise’ my material into a form more suitable for the Latin America market. It’s been a lot of hard work, but the results are …
An Enterprise Canvas update: 'value-governance'
An important email for me this morning, from management consultant Ray McKenzie, that’s triggered off a significant re-think on the role and label for one of the nine main cells in the Enterprise Canvas model: While you labelled the bottom …
Next-generation toolsets for enterprise-architecture?
One of the most essential tasks in enterprise-architecture is that of enabling conversations on architectural issues, with any groups of stakeholders, anywhere across the enterprise. Our toolsets play an important role in those conversations. The right tool used in the …
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Enabling enterprise-architecture conversations
Architects are designers too. Application-architecture designs link across an array of applications, process-architects design ways to link processes together, business-architects design business-models and their linkage into the everyday practices of the organisation. That much should be obvious, I would presume. …
Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 5: Service content
In the previous articles about context-space mapping with the Enterprise Canvas, we looked at the topmost layer, the extended-enterprise and enterprise-descriptor or vision; then the next layer down, summarising all the player in the enterprise ecosystem; and took a first high-level look …
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Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 4: Rethinking vision bottom-up
So far in this series we’ve explored the key concept of the extended-enterprise, used that to summarise the ecosystem in which the organisation operates, and started to model the organisation’s value-proposition and business-relationships. Up until this point we’ve been working top-down, …
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Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 3: Value-proposition
So far in this series we’ve explored enterprise-vision (Enterprise Canvas row-0) and high-level business-context (row-1) in a fairly straightforward way. It’s been much the same as any other conventional ‘top-down’ strategy-development, except that we haven’t really mentioned our own organisation …
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How to screw up in one easy lesson…
Yup, I screwed up badly over that last post on IBM’s definitely not ‘new’ Component Business Model. Within a matter of minutes I’d received a whole stream of Tweets warning me I’d been mistaken about the age of the model: …
On IBM’s ‘Component Business Model’
(Another example of How To Lose Friends And Infuriate People, no doubt, but this does have to be said.) [Update: this post was a reaction to a tweet I received yesterday, but Mike T. (@miket0181) tells me that the IBM CBM …