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About the Book
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.
About the Author
Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.