How To Understand The Difference Between Value-Proposition and a Product or Service
One of my startup heroes Steve Blank wrote in a blog post that “value proposition is the fancy name for your product or service” It is with some trepidation that […]
Enterprise Architecture
How Should we use Cloud?
How should we use Cloud? This is the key question at the start of 2013. The Open Group® conferences in recent years have thrown light on, “What is Cloud?” and, “Should we use Cloud?” It is time to move on. Continue reading →
Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian. It…
Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian.
It is also emotional.
Technology empowers us, it amplifies us in the world, and gives us super powers.
Maybe productivity is a not just a function of the design, but also of our attachment to it.
And maybe that emotional connection best expresses itself aesthetically – in personalisation, decoration and symbols of individuality.
And just maybe the reverse applies and standardising, commoditising, and depersonalising technology degrades the productivity of those who have to use it.
Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian. It…
Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian.
It is also emotional.
Technology empowers us, it amplifies us in the world, and gives us super powers.
Maybe productivity is a not just a function of the design, but also of our attachment to it.
A…
Types of Cost
When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types […]
Successful Enterprise Architecture using the TOGAF® and ArchiMate® Standards
The discipline of Enterprise Architecture was developed in the 1980s with a strong focus on the information systems landscape of organizations. Since those days, the scope of the discipline has slowly widened to include more and more aspects of the enterprise as a whole. Architects, especially at the strategic level, attempt to answer the question “How should we organize ourselves in order to be successful?” Continue reading →
What is a value-proposition?
‘Value-proposition’ is a term much-bandied-about in business-models and the like. Yet what exactly is it? A tweet by Alex Osterwalder pointed me to an article by Steve Blank on ‘How to build a billion-dollar startup‘, which included this brief section on the role of…
Tom Graves – The Business of the Business
An article by Tom Graves defining the scope of “business” every organisation is also ‘a business’ the business of an organisation is whatever the organisation does, for whatever business-reasons and […]
Metamodels
The Danish Agency for Digitisation has announced some coming updates of the national enterprise architecture framework and reference models. In a consultation draft about these, Et fælles overblik, the agency also introduces the OIO EA metamodel. The consultation also involves an update to STORM, the Service and Technology Reference Model. All documents are in Danish. Interested parties can submit comments to the agency until 14 …read more
On the business of the business
What is business? For that matter, what is – or is not – ‘a business’? Seems a kinda important question for business-architecture, doesn’t it? And yet no-one seems to ask it… So let’s just do some proper enterprise-architecture thinking around this one –…
On the use of the word ‘delivery’
Enterprise architects and consultants often enjoy building specific languages. This is both good and bad. Good jargon allows one to be very specific and concisely articulate observations about a particular specialised field of interest — for instance a domain architecture or a very specific business process, which only few people understand or carry out. Bad …read more
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