Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
This little canvas is part of my toolbox for detailing and documenting scenarios. The Scenario Canvas Note: I’m currently in a process of changing my presentation design (the image shows what the new design looks like) for all my work. When I’ve stabilized the design and applied it across all canvases and related material I’ll […]
Designing businesses is not a trivial activity. Having a simple structure that one can use to design and / or understand a capability makes designing business architecture so much easier. More to come on this topic during 2015. The Capability Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Designing and understanding brands and how the behave as figments of their own is hard enough. Having a simple structure that one can use to design and / or understand a brand makes designing businesses so much easier. More details to come on this topic… The Brand Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative […]
As a teaser for the new year I thought I’d release The Change Canvas (TCC). Much more to come on this and related topics during 2015. The Change Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
It often happens that when you reach for the business strategic view to explain why certain things should happen at other levels, communication get overtly complicated. Most of us are used to encountering strategy maps, scorecards, motivation models and since 2009 business model canvases. The problem I’ve encountered is that these perspectives of the business […]
Mots of us run workshops to gather information and build awareness. If you like me use the Business Model Canvas then maybe you have felt that sometimes it would come in handy if the sticky notes would be encoded accordingly to the BMC. Now you can have that by printing these Business Model Canvas Sticky Notes […]
Most of the time principles is viewed as the highest form of governance. From random principles to actual governance entities there is sometimes a long road to travel. I use various templates to ease the pain of crafting the principles such that they can be considered expertly constructed, expressed in the finest of language and […]
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 […]
I threw the basic grid below together as a tool to reason and visualize about how developers, analysts and architects generally use the BMC. My suspicion was that most users of the BMC scatter their efforts across the grid with an emphasis on “Enable”. If that would prove to be the case then there is […]
When you do illustrations of enterprise architecture using Lego there are a couple of rules of thumb that may make the whole experience and the end result more pleasurable. draw a sketch of the design where you focus on capturing the essence of the architecture. use the LEGO Digital Designer to model the design. remember […]
I recently picked up a copy of Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions by Richard Reese. I have worked with Troux in a variety of capacities in the past along with stacking them up with the other large Enterprise Architecture Tool vendors….
Wave was supposed to be another jewel in the already crowded Google crown. Surely this next generation communication tool was going to join the ranks of ultra-successful Search, super-popular Mail and upcoming star Android. When Google announced this a…