History seems to be all in vogue in Cynefin circles at present. On one side, for example, there’s Cynthia Kurtz – the too-often-unacknowledged co-creator of Cynefin, and originator of some of its key concepts such as the crucial distinctions between …
A great conversation yesterday with Swiss solutions-architect Jean-Paul de Vooght brought up the thorny problem of ‘enterprise vision’. As the ISO-9000 standard makes clear, some kind of vision-statement is a literally essential requirement, to provide the ultimate stable anchor for an …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 »
In the previous section we looked at how the broader extended-enterprise is defined by its vision and values, how every part of the enterprise is made up of interdependent services, and how the enterprise vision and values pervade through every …
The Enterprise Canvas, Part 2: Market and Supply-Chain Read more »