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Why before who

Posted on 16 July 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Power and responsibility — 1 Comment ↓

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…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business model, customer, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, responsibility, strategy, values, vision

Enterprise as story: a cafe example

Posted on 12 October 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 7 Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, story, values, vision

Marketing and the service-oriented enterprise

Posted on 25 November 2011 by

admin Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Society — 2 Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, marketing, paradigm, service architecture, service-oriented enterprise, values, vision

For or against?

Posted on 27 October 2011 by

admin Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society — 8 Comments ↓

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…

Tagged with: effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative, Society, values, vision, worldview

What I do and how I do it

Posted on 29 August 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider — 5 Comments ↓

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…

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'?

Posted on 8 August 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 3 Comments ↓

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…

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

Posted on 16 July 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 10 Comments ↓

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…

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

Posted on 8 July 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 5 Comments ↓

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…

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)

Posted on 12 June 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge — 2 Comments ↓

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,…

Tagged with: Business, business architecture, culture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, IRM-EAC 2011, organizational development, respect, strategy, values, vision

Strategy, tactics, operations and emotion

Posted on 19 May 2011 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — No Comments ↓

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…