Mapping the Enterprise
Modeling the Enterprise as Services with Enterprise Canvas
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
One of the hardest tasks strategists and enterprise architects face is mapping an enterprise in a form that creates and supports making sense of the whole. This book introduces an alternate approach to create consistency at every level by modelling the enterprise as services with the Enterprise Canvas.
This new model type that can be used to describe just about anything in any area 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. It is also simple enough to scribble on the back of a napkin - and engage all of your stakeholders in the enterprise-scale conversations you need. There is also a simple notation for Enterprise Canvas that is suitable for use in service-design toolsets.
The book teaches the use of architectural techniques to describe any aspect of the enterprise. It will help you identify the business reasons and business value for every activity, and you will also learn how to align strategy, tactics and operations to enterprise vision and values. By the end of this book, you will understand how an enterprise works as a web of services, and what needs to be done to make your enterprise work in the best possible way.
What You'll Learn
- Gain insight into the concepts of service to enhance agility, adaptability and resilience.
- Understand how to enhance efficiency and effectiveness throughout the enterprise.
- Grasp how an enterprise is made up of services that each serve an overall set of needs
Who This Book Is For
Enterprise architects, Business architects, IT architects and process designers.Frequently asked questions
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. What Is the Enterprise Canvas?
- 2. The Nature of Service
- 3. Service Context and Market
- 4. Service Vision and Values
- 5. Service Layers
- 6. Service Actors and Other Entities
- 7. Service Roles and Relationships
- 8. Service Structure
- 9. Service Flows
- 10. Service Guidance
- 11. Service Investors and Beneficiaries
- 12. Service Decomposition
- 13. Service Content
- 14. Services As Systems
- 15. Example Patterns
- 16. Integration with Architectures
- 17. Rethinking Vision Bottom-Up
- Back Matter