Does the customer always come first? Do customer-needs drive everything? For that matter, is the customer always right? There’s been quite a lot of promotion of such ideas in my Twitter-stream lately, but I kinda have my doubts on all…
Tag: vision
Why before who
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business model, customer, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, responsibility, strategy, values, vision
Enterprise as story: a cafe example
How can we use a vision or story as the anchor for an organisation’s business and enterprise? How do we link that story to decisions and actions in everyday business? This is a theme that came up in a great…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, story, values, vision
Marketing and the service-oriented enterprise
As the economy shifts ever onward from manufacturing toward services, how do marketing and market-relationships need to change with this shift? And what enterprise-architectures do we need to support this? [In part this is a follow-on from Dave Gray‘s excellent…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, marketing, paradigm, service architecture, service-oriented enterprise, values, vision
For or against?
Looking at your enterprise vision – or any kind of future intent – is it defined in terms of being for something? Or against something? That distinction can sometimes seem subtle – yet it’s very important indeed… On the surface, it…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society Tagged with: effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative, Society, values, vision, worldview
What I do and how I do it
What do I do, and how do I do it? What’s the nature of my work, and the methods that I use? And for that matter, why? That’s perhaps the shortest summary to a request by Anthony Draffin, in a comment…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, disruption, dowsing, effectiveness, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, metamodel, methodology, mythquake, narrative, paradigm, purpose, quality, responsibility, story, strategy, tactics, taxonomy, values, vision, worldview
What is the enterprise in 'the enterprise'?
When we talk about enterprise-architecture, what is ‘the enterprise’? For that matter, what is ‘enterprise’? Seems they’d be fairly foundational questions, yet most of the answers we see seem, well, kinda thin… If we hunt around on the net, we’ll…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: community-of-interest, community-of-practice, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, mythos, narrative, paradigm, tribes, values, vision, worldview
Using Business Model Canvas for non-profits
How do we use Alex Osterwalder‘s Business Model Canvas for the business of a not-for-profit organisation? Or, for that matter, the non-monetary aspects of a commercial organisation? Over the past while have been asked by quite a few folks – Shawn…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: bpm, Business, business architecture, business model, business model canvas, business-process management, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, value, values, vision
Where marketing meets enterprise-architecture
Rethinking the enterprise from a customer-centric perspective was another theme that came up in that conversation with Robert Phipps last week, in this case with a bit of virtual help from Chris Potts. The ‘conventional’ way of viewing an enterprise…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business model, chris potts, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, market, marketing, robert phipps, values, verna allee, vision
Respect as an architectural issue (IRM-EAC 2011)
I had an excellent time at the IRM-EAC 2011 conference in London this past week. Part of that was because Sally Bean and Roger Burlton had had the courage to bring their previously-separate EA (architecture) and BPM (process) conferences together,…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge Tagged with: Business, business architecture, culture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, IRM-EAC 2011, organizational development, respect, strategy, values, vision
Strategy, tactics, operations and emotion
This one’s been brewing for a while, but the final trigger to get it down in writing was a tweet from yesterday evening: RT @vernaallee: RT @timkastelle: Good post & important point by @jorgebarba – It matters how you play…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, emotion, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, paradigm, power, responsibility, values, vision
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