The enterprise as story by Tom Graves [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]

About the Book

Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture describe everything in terms of structure. Yet people work better with story than with structure - and people are the enterprise. As we expand the architecture towards a true whole-of-enterprise scope, we need to describe the enterprise as story. Story is everywhere in the architecture - even the enterprise itself is a story.

This ground-breaking book places story at centre-stage for the architecture, itself using a narrative structure to explore the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture. Via business story-structures such as the Market-Cycle, and genres such as We Sell Certainty, it shows how stories underpin every aspect of the enterprise - and how we can use story within the architecture to enhance overall enterprise effectiveness.

Topics covered include:

how to use story and narrative to assist in sensemaking for architecture
how to create engagement in the architecture through story
how to balance structure and story for better business results
how to identify and use business-story genres to guide overall architecture
how to change the organisation's relationships with its 'anti-clients' from business-risk to business-opportunity
how to use story-patterns to identify and resolve strategic business-issues
how to leverage your own experience to create stronger architecture stories

If you want to create real engagement in the architecture and the enterprise, this is one book you'll definitely need.

The Tetradian Enterprise Architecture Series presents new developments on theory, principles and practice of enterprise architecture – moving beyond IT to the whole enterprise.

About the Author

Tom Graves @tetradian

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

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The enterprise as story
1. The role of narrative in enterprise-architecture
Introduction
1. The enterprise as story
2. Who is this for?
3. What's in this book?
01: Everyday enterprise architecture
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
02: What's the story?
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
03: Narrative and story
1. Application
04: The structure of story
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
05: Circular stories
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
06: Defining the story
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
07: Where is the story?
1. Application
08: When is the story?
1. Application
09: Whose story?
1. Application
10: Who owns the story?
1. Application
11: Which story?
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
12: Finding the voice
1. Application
13: Maintain the tension
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
14: Betraying the story
1. Application
15: Start again
1. Application
16: Start anywhere
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
17: Put myself in the story
1. Application
18: The story-doctors
1. Application
Interlude
1. Application
19: Win without the fight
1. Application
20: Wrap up the story
1. Application
Appendix: Sources and resources
1. Sources
2. The Tetradian Enterprise Architecture series
3. Other resources