The 'Services and enterprise-architecture' bundle

This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores the role and function of services as a foundational structure for use in enterprise-architectures.

This book includes about 40 posts and 115 images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:

• Services and Enterprise Canvas - reviews the role and structure of the service-oriented Enterprise Canvas model-type.
• Service and Product - explores the relationships between services and product, and how those relationships work in practice.
• Services: Other Themes - presents further aspects of services in enterprise-architecture.

This anthology from the Tetradian weblog covers the Enterprise Canvas model-type and its related uses and modelling methods.

Enterprise Canvas is designed for use in service-oriented modelling for enterprise-architectures and the like. It can be used to describe any aspect of the enterprise, providing a consistent, unified view all the way from strategy to execution. it’s simple enough to be used in freeform ‘back-of-the-napkin’ sketches, yet it also supports the kind of formal rigour needed for structured diagrams, information-repositories and automatable simulations. And although it’s simpler and easier to use than most of the common enterprise-architecture notations, it’s also compatible enough with them not only to link to such models, but to use essentially the same notations within existing toolsets.

This is the first of a two-part series, showing the initial Enterprise Canvas model and usages up to 2014. The second part in the series, Updates on Enterprise Canvas: More detail on methods for service-design, describes further developments and usages from 2014 onwards.

This book includes about 35 posts and 110 images from the weblog. These posts are split into five groups:

• Enterprise Canvas: Origins - outlines the purpose, structure and content for the initial version of the Enterprise Canvas model.
• Enterprise Canvas: More Detail - summarises additional details that have been amended in or added to the Enterprise Canvas model.
• Enterprise Canvas: Context-Space - describes how to use Enterprise Canvas in context-space mapping for business-models and more.
• Enterprise Canvas: Services - considers a variety of themes about services in general.
• Enterprise Canvas: Theory and Practice - explores some of the underlying concepts, theory and practices behind the Enterprise Canvas model.

This anthology from the Tetradian weblog covers the Enterprise Canvas model-type and its related uses and modelling methods.

Enterprise Canvas is designed for use in service-oriented modelling for enterprise-architectures and the like. It can be used to describe any aspect of the enterprise, providing a consistent, unified view all the way from strategy to execution. it’s simple enough to be used in freeform ‘back-of-the-napkin’ sketches, yet it also supports the kind of formal rigour needed for structured diagrams, information-repositories and automatable simulations. And although it’s simpler and easier to use than most of the common enterprise-architecture notations, it’s also compatible enough with them not only to link to such models, but to use essentially the same notations within existing toolsets.

This is the second part of a two-part series. The first part covered the posts on Enterprise Canvas published up to 2014. This update adds further articles that were published between 2014 and 2021, and includes about 40 posts and 100 images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:

• Enterprise Canvas: Services and Enterprise Canvas Canvas Review - provides a detailed review and update on the Enterprise Canvas model and its supporting elements.
• Enterprise Canvas: More Detail - summarises additional details that have been amended in or added to the Enterprise Canvas model.
• Enterprise Canvas: Service and Product - explores the core concepts of service and product, and the relationships between them that underlie the overall Enterprise Canvas model.

This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores the nature of value and its relationship with the role of enterprise architecture.

This book includes about 35 posts and 65 images from the weblog. These posts are split into four groups:

• Value and Values - outlines the practical meaning of ‘value’ and the distinctions between ‘value’ and ‘values’.
• Values and Quality - provides an overview of quality as an expression of values, and how to use this in enterprise architecture.
• Economics and Value - describes how money is only one subset of value, and the implications of this fact for enterprise architecture and business architecture.
• Effectiveness and Value - shows how values determine the practical meaning of ‘effectiveness’, and how effectiveness supports value in the enterprise.