Mapping the enterprise by Tom Graves [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]

About the Book

For strategists, enterprise architects and others, one of the hardest tasks is we face is mapping the enterprise in a form that creates and supports a sense of the whole as a whole. And it’s a task that’s often made harder by the way in which so many current model-types seem only to fragment the view ever further.

This book introduces an alternate approach: we create consistency at every level by modelling the enterprise as services with the Enterprise Canvas. It’s a new model-type that can be used to describe just about anything in any part and at any level of the enterprise, and that acts as a consistent frame for all the other models that we need in our architectures. Yet it’s also simple enough to scribble on the back of a napkin - and engage all of our stakeholders in the enterprise-scale conversations we need.

This extended edition includes a new appendix on a simplified notation for Enterprise Canvas, suitable for use in enterprise-architecture toolsets.

Topics covered include:

how to use architecture techniques to describe any aspect of the enterprise
how to identify the business-reasons and business-value for every activity
how to align strategy, tactics and operations to enterprise vision and values
how to identify risks and opportunities in the enterprise and its market
how to link strategy and execution via enterprise models
how to improve communication between different departments and disciplines
how to use concepts of service to enhance agility, adaptability and resilience
how to enhance efficiency and effectiveness throughout the enterprise

If you want to understand and explain how your enterprise really works, 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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Introduction
1. Modelling the enterprise
2. Who should read this book?
3. What's in this book?
01: What is the Enterprise Canvas?
1. Application
02: The nature of service
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
03: Service context and market
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
04: Service vision and values
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
05: Service layers
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
06: Service actors and other entities
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
07: Service roles and relationships
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
08: Service structure
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
09: Service flows
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
10: Service guidance
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
11: Service investors and beneficiaries
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
12: Service decomposition
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
13: Service content
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
14: Services as systems
1. Summary
2. Details
3. Application
15: Example patterns
1. Summary
2. Details
16: Integration with architectures
1. Summary
2. Details
17: Rethinking vision bottom-up
1. Summary
2. Details
Appendix A: Enterprise Canvas -- a visual summary
1. Enterprise Canvas
2. Layers
3. Extensions to Enterprise Canvas
4. Enterprise
5. Market content
6. Market-cycle
7. Service content
8. Service-flow content and flow-lifecycle
Appendix B: Working with Business Model Canvas
1. Summary
2. Details
Appendix C: Notation
1. Simplifying the Enterprise Canvas
2. Entity-types
3. Relation-types
4. Some comments on modelling
5. Keeping things simple
Appendix D: Sources and resources
1. Sources
2. Other resources