In the previous post in this series we did a quick review of context-space mapping and the Enterprise Canvas, and set out this into practice with a real-world example that, for me, is very close to home: rethinking my own …

Context-space mapping with Enterprise Canvas, Part 2: Business context Read more »

The full Enterprise Canvas model is a complex beast, with many ideas, many layers, many ramifications and side-themes: it can perhaps seem daunting at first. Yet when we strip it right down to its bare essentials, it’s actually very simple …

The Enterprise Canvas: a Really Simple Summary Read more »

Over on the LinkedIn Business Architecture list, my colleagues Pat Ferdinandi, JD Beckingham and Ron Segal have all helped a lot in challenging me on the Enterprise Canvas concepts. Pat in particular has been has been pushing hard for some …

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There’s a lot of material in all of those articles on the Enterprise Canvas, so here’s an index: Introduction – a somewhat quirky lead-in to the background and reasoning behind the Enterprise Canvas model Part 1: Context and Value – …

The Enterprise Canvas: Summary and Index Read more »

Over previous articles in this series, we established some of the background and theory of the Enterprise Canvas with context and value, market and supply-chain, owners and managers, layers, and recursion. We then started to explore how to put this to practical use, with a detailed …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 8: Integration Read more »

We wandered through the background and theory of the Enterprise Canvas with context and value, market and supply-chain, owners and managers, layers and recursion; we’ve made a start on putting it to use, by showing how different models can be layered on top of each …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 7: Patterns Read more »

After that rather lengthy wander through context and value, market and supply-chain, owners and managers, layers and recursion, we now have our complete Enterprise Canvas. Time to put this model-type to practical use. There’ll be a lot of cross-references in …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 6: Models Read more »

So far in this exploration of the Enterprise Canvas we’ve looked at context and values, market and supply-chain, owners and managers, and layering. The next stage needs to take us for a brief wander through the wilds of systems-theory: specifically, …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 5: Recursion, Flows and Systems Read more »

In the first part of this series of articles we explored context and values; in the second part we linked this to the market and supply-chain, and the related flows that pass in the ‘horizontal’ channels between services; and in …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 4: Layers Read more »

In Part 1 of this series, we explored the ‘vertical’ axis of the Canvas: the vision and values that define the overall shared-enterprise, and the value-proposition that defines the reason-to-be for each organisation and service and sub-service: In Part 2, …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 3: Owners and Managers Read more »