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The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation

: del Generation that introduces the Business Model Canvas.  This model is wildly complex and needs to be rationalized.  I will walk through the process that I followed to rationalize this model. Rationalization phase 1: Fixing the Relationships In this step, we will look for missing elements, add actual relationships that were not captured in the text, and then remove transitive elements that remain. Step 1: Look for Missing Elements For...

7 ways to present your business model

: 0 0    <p><span style="color: #505050; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px;">One of the main challenges for business model innovation and business model implementation is communication. We need to get the message to the right people in a way they understand, that they like and that they can move forward with.</span></p><p>We introduced the <a title="Blog: Business Models: Do the right...

Business Model Analysis with the Business Model Canvas

: 0 0    <p><span style="color: #505050; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px;">In an earlier blogpost </span><span style="color: #505050; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px;">we described the issue of ‘doing the things right’ vs. ‘doing the right things’. In that blogpost we introduced the </span><a style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px;" title="Blog ‘Busine...

How to elaborate a Business Model with Enterprise Architecture?

: 0 0    How does an Enterprise Architecture and a Business Model work together? Successful organisations are those that improve and innovate their Business Models to find a profitable niche against their competitors. But a new Business Model alone is not enough. It needs to be implemented and executed. This is where an Enterprise Architecture comes in. If organisations do not align their Business Model and their Enterprise Architect...

Upwards and sideways from business-model

: 0 0    The past few posts in this series have focussed on moving ‘downward’ from the business-model, towards implementation, such as might be modelled in Archimate notation. That’s an aspect of the business-architecture / enterprise-architecture interface that makes immediate and practical sense to most people. Yet to complete and verify the business-model and its proposed implementation, we also need to look upwa...

From business-model to enterprise-architecture

: o attach to a CC license-type in a formal manner, but for now please assume non-commercial, share-alike and attribution-requested for the parts described here. More after the ‘Read more…’ break, anyway. Step 1: Develop a business-model The term ‘business-model‘ here means a semi-detailed overview of what the organisation does in its business with others, and the offers and value-types that are exchanged. A strong rec...

Using Business Model Canvas for non-profits

: 0 0    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 Callahan, Alan Rodriguez, Robert Phipps and others – about how to use the Business Model Canvas in an NGO, government or other non-profit context. (Shawn’s c...

Enterprise Canvas as service-viability checklist

: dequate support to the organisation’s overall services: classic examples include contexts where purported ‘shareholder-value’ is assigned absolute priority over everything else,or where “last year plus 10%” is considered to be a real strategy. This type of problem will almost invariably lead to organisational failure over the medium- to longer-term: it is an extremely important architectural risk to the organisation,...

Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model

: 0 0    Modeling helps improve the success of delivering a high-quality solution A primary responsibility of a Solution Architect is the integrity of a given project’s software solution. There are many aspects to a solution’s integrity such as System Quality as well as Traceability to ensure the software actually meets the business needs. There is another that is the topic of this blog post and is a Solution Model. Of course, a mod...

Building Networks with Business Models: Two approaches that will help you to understand and improve your value network

: 0 -1    In an earlier posting we addressed 7 applications of the Business Model Canvas. Sure, we can agree that the Business Model Canvas is very useful for establishing, evaluating and reinventing businesses. But we should not only highlight the countless possibilities of it for a single enterprise. We need to synthesize our understanding of Value Chains and the Business Models and look for the next level of analysis: Value Networ...

Business Architecture is Business Performance Management with Engineering Rigor

: 0 0    I’ve been performing a Business Architect role within the Enterprise Architecture function over the past few years and wanted to share some opinions I’ve formed to help jog, and possibly advance, the thinking in the space of Business Architecture by colliding Traditional Business Architecture with business management processes like Business Performance Management. Traditional Business Architecture needs refinemen...

Modelling Behaviour

: 0 0    I frequently find that there is much confusion about the modelling of Behaviour in an Enterprise Architecture model, specifically between the concepts of Business Capability, Business Function and Business Process. The various enterprise architecture glossaries all differ in their definition of these. For example the TOGAF ADM or ISEB definitions don’t help as much as they could. TOGAF quite reasonably defines Capability as...

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