Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
For some time I have been working with adapting the business model canvas for explaining how an enterprise architecture program delivers value to the it-department. The scope of the model has been on the foundation architecture where the outcome of the enterprise architecture program is mainly used by the IT department. I am aware of […]
This is the first post in a series on business models, innovation, implementation, cases and tools!
At BiZZdesign we have a successful history of designing businesses. As a spin-off of the Dutch Telematica Instituut (currently Novay) we started as an …
When I read Tom Graves’ (@tetradian) post Who is the customer? published on July 14th, 2011, it was not the first time that I thought: “Hey, wait a minute. Using business model and business architecture interchangeably is not right.” But did I expect Tom … Continue reading →
The previous post, ‘From business model to enterprise-architecture‘, turned out to be another of my monster essays. Sorry…
The detail’s there if you need it, but if you just want to do the translation from Business Model Canvas to Archimate, without worrying too much about the ‘Why’ behind it, here’s the short version.
Step 1: […]
This week I talked in length about The New World of Enterprise Architecture or also referred to as Contemporary Enterprise Architecture. This is the notion that EA is primarily business driven and focused. A few weeks back, I picked up…
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 […]
This has been a week of announcements of evolving new business models from major technology players. The pace of technology change is gaining momentum over past few years but more importantly the technology consumption models are changing are greater p…
This has been a week of announcements of evolving new business models from major technology players. The pace of technology change is gaining momentum over past few years but more importantly the technology consumption models are changing are greater p…
The Sponsoring checklist As you get into it you need some help. Help can come in many forms, mostly what is required is network, money and knowledge. To get that you try to secure the support of sponsors in the form of investors. To ease the communication with the different types of sponsors a basic […]
This visual map shows how business units of The Walt Disney Company contribute to each other’s activities. Stunning, he drew this in 1957.
I blogged a while ago: “Architects are comfortable with the idea of creating visual …
Writing the Pitch! In the fifth iteration I’ve written a pitch to present the business idea as it would be presented to potential participants. The pitch answers the basic set of questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. The Pitch Welcome to Masters of the Trail 2012: For this nine-day event we are working […]
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 […]