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 »

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 »

After that suitably silly start, it’s time to be sensible and serious. Sort-of, anyway. 🙂 The real story is this: When I first saw Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, back some nine months or so ago, I was immediately struck …

The Enterprise Canvas, Part 1: Context and Value Read more »

[There is, as usual, a serious point to this post. Yet a gentle note to Americans and other non-English speakers: much what follows is riddled with puns and other artefacts of that imaginary entity called ‘British humour’. My apologies… You …

The Quest for the Enterprise Canvas Read more »

Development of new ideas, processes and practices will always be a social process, and always somewhat messy. To enable that development to happen, we need social conditions that can support it – and screen out behaviours that prevent it. Those …

A question of policy Read more »

Ever since I saw Alex Osterwalder’s brilliant business-architecture book Business Model Generation a few months back, it’s been obvious to me that we need something of the same clarity, simplicity and quality for the broader discipline of whole-of-enterprise architecture. We …

A call for collaboration on enterprise-architecture Read more »