Tag Archives: business architecture

Value chains, IT4IT and reference models

Posted on December 21, 2016 by

I have recently had a most rewarding exchange with Mark Smalley, who is part of a group working on IT4IT (this includes an information architecture to help IT tools interact with each other and a reference model – “an IT … Continue reading →

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Capability Maps vs Process Maps: Horses for courses

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

Those who have been following this blog will know that I have devoted four or five entries to the issue of capability maps. Mainly because I have not seen the need for them and because they can obscure the core … Continue reading →

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Value chain, capability chain or operating chain?

Posted on January 8, 2016 by

Over the last year I have been going round in circles in my thinking about language.   I am convinced that the best place to start when doing operating model work is with a stakeholder map that helps identify the stakeholders … Continue reading →

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What is “architecture” in business design?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

The IT community use the terms Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture to describe the activity of “setting up” the business or the IT systems.   As a business strategist I have always found this language difficult.   I first came across it … Continue reading →

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Value Streams, Context Maps and Process Maps

Posted on February 8, 2015 by

I have just been reading a 2013 article by Mike Rosen of Wilton Consulting Group about “context maps”.   I don’t like the name, but the article does quite a good job of laying out a flow of analysis that is … Continue reading →

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More on Business Models and Business Architecture

Posted on July 2, 2014 by

I thought it would be helpful to add some of the further comment from the LinkedIn thread on diagrams for operating models. This is for those interested in the issue of language.  See the first blog on this. In the … Continue reading →

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Comparing Business Model and Business Architecture

Posted on June 29, 2014 by

In a recent LinkedIn discussion within the LinkedIn group “Operating Models” there has been a good thread about ways of drawing operating models, methods used to draw operating models and the definition of what is an operating model.  I recommend … Continue reading →

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Do small companies have operating models?

Posted on June 15, 2014 by

The following is stolen from a post by Peter Murchland in a discussion group in LinkeIn’s The Enterprise Architecture Network. Thank you Peter and apologies for the changes I have made to your insightful comments. In a new organisation, the … Continue reading →

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Enterprise architecture, frameworks and operating models?

Posted on June 3, 2014 by

There has been a long discussion on LinkedIn about Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF – more than 400 comments!    What follows is stolen mainly from a comment by John Tieso – thank you John.  For those who do not normally use … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about the Open Group’s new Business Reference Model

Posted on May 13, 2014 by
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