A week in Tweets: 03-09 July 2011

Almost catching up, for once – not quite a full week late. Here it is anyway: another week’s collection of Tweets and links, shuffled into the respective categories (or not, as the case may be). And, of course, the necessary ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture, business strategy and all manner of other business-big-picture themes:

florian__: Bottomline is, diagrams […]

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 Callahan, Alan Rodriguez, Robert Phipps and others – about how to use the Business Model Canvas in […]

What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?

One of the keys to breaking free from IT-centric ‘enterprise’-architecture lies in reclaiming the meaning of the term ‘business-architecture’.
In TOGAF and other ‘classic’ enterprise-architecture, everything revolves around IT: the IT is deemed to be the sole centre of meaning within the enterprise. Hence ‘business’-architecture is defined as a subset of ‘enterprise’-architecture, which itself is defined […]

Who is the customer?

Who is the customer, in a business model?
That’s perhaps not as simple as it sounds. I’ve been working on a long how-to post on using Business Model Canvas in a non-profit context, and realised that even in a commercial context it can get very messy once we move outside of the relatively simple ‘world’ that […]

A week in Tweets: 26 June – 2 July 2011

One of these weeks I’ll catch up… Yes, iit’s the previous week’s collection of Tweets and links, sorted into the usual categories (or non-categories) and, of course, preceded by that all-too-necessary ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture and all the various ‘business big-picture’ themes:

SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia Combining #innovation, #business and #art http://bit.ly/ebyrzD #entarch
SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto Postcards from the […]

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 is that of the stock-market – and, apparently, US commercial law – which seems to regard the […]

A week in Tweets: 19-25 June 2011

Yep, another somewhat-delayed collection of Tweets and links. Usual categories, of course, after the inevitable (and necessary) ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture and all that business-ish big-picture stuff:

CreatvEmergence: RT @sheriherndon: “Complicated” is essentially mechanical. “Complex” is essentially relational. Complicated is about acting on. “Complex” is about acting with.
DavidGurteen: TheAWL: Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert http://bit.ly/mvhnxD […]

A week in Tweets: 12-18 June 2011

Another somewhat-delayed collection of Tweets and links: make of it what you will. Usual categories, usual ‘Read more…’ link. Need you ask for more?

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and the business big-picture:

vernaallee: Fractals, complexity, simplicity and more RT @timkastelle: By @Digitaltonto: The Simple Dilemma http://bit.ly/iLX0I5 #entarch
tetradian: [post] Respect as an architectural issue (slidedeck from IRM-EAC 2011 conf) […]

A week in Tweets: 05-11 June 2011

It’s a week. Another week. Gosh. This one starts from 5th June, as the page-header suggests. Make of it what you will. Usual categories, usual ‘Read more…’ link: what more could you ask?

Enterprise-architecture and any of the ‘business big-picture’ stuff:

CreatvEmergence: RT @the99percent: 5 Manifestos for Art, Life & Business :: http://bit.ly/eyigjT #99classics
Bebela239: RT @BernardMarr: Free […]

Architecting the enterprise backbone

Software-architect extraordinaire Simon Brown kindly pointed me to the InfoQ article ‘Agile and Architecture Conflict‘, which summarised the views of various folks on the ‘agile vs architecture’ debate, including myself, Simon and another of my regular co-creators (co-conspirators? ), Jan van Til, all of us looking at different aspects of the idea that […]

A week in Tweets: 29 May – 04 June 2011

Yep, it’s that time again – when I try once more to catch up on the backlog of Tweets and links. Another week’s worth, only slightly out-of-date; usual categories, usual ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture and all that ‘business big-picture’ stuff:

vernaallee: The success of an enterprise depends on how efficiently it can convert one form of value […]

The perils of prior-art (Five Elements)

I’m sitting in a friend’s office, talking about book-production and enterprise-architecture. Whilst he’s struggling with his recalcitrant computer, my eyes drift to a Wikipedia page pinned on the wall just beyond his head. ‘Galbright_star_model.png‘, says the label. A five-pointed star, apparently describing some kind of business-related concepts. Interested. Look at it again, notice the word […]