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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tool’
An integrated view of change
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Design, Enterprise architecture, Open for business, The art of architecture, tagged Balanced Scorecard, BMGEN, Business Model Canvas, Business Motivation Model, Staregy Maps, Sticky notes, Tool, Workshop on 2011-06-29 | 1 Comment »
When things need to go up the wall
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Design, Enterprise architecture, Open for business, The art of architecture, tagged BMGEN, Business Model Canvas, Sticky notes, Tool, Workshop on 2011-06-27 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
An extended principles template
Posted in Enterprise architecture, tagged business, ea, Enterprise architecture, Governance, Model, principles, The Happy People Business, Tool on 2011-06-27 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Iteration #6 of a new Business Model for MTB Stage Races
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged BMC, BMGEN, business, Canvas, Checklist, Enterprise architecture, Model, Sponsoring, strategy, The Happy People Business, Tool on 2011-06-25 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Enabling the BMC with the power of Q
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Open for business, tagged BMC, BMGEN, business, Canvas, Enterprise architecture, Model, strategy, The Happy People Business, Tool on 2011-06-21 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Enterprise Architecture and LEGO
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged ea, Enterprise architecture, Illustration, lego, Model, Tool on 2011-04-28 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
When architecture tools grow up
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged Enterprise architecture, future, profession, Tool on 2009-03-12 | Leave a Comment »
In his visualization of a tale about the love between a man and woman, the multitalented Bruce Branit shows the architecture community an astonishing vision of the future for design tools. Not only that, he manages to show some of the basic traits of the profession of architects and architecture as it probably has never [...]
The social graph of the EA world
Posted in Enterprise architecture, tagged Enterprise architecture, Framework, Method, Tool on 2007-11-19 | Leave a Comment »
I came across a piece of software that allows you to map out relations between search results from Google and Amazon. So I decided to map out the prominent terms of the enterprise architecture field, namely “enterprise architecture”, “method”, “framework”, “tool” and “Books”. I’ll leave it up to you to draw any conclusions from these [...]
