The handbook is a concise and highly visual guide to Enterprise Modelling and Strategy Planning. It is also a reference manual and aide memoire for the modelling method provided.
While the book describes an Enterprise wide Architecture modelling method, the activity is referred to as Enterprise Modelling to distinguish it from the Enterprise Architecture today which typically covers mainly IT. This work covers all tiers of the enterprise. The Information Technology is still in focus though because IT is the common denominator of any enterprise as is deeply embedded in the enterprise operation today and core to its digital future.
The handbook describes an one page generic business architecture, an enterprise modelling framework, a metamodel, sample models, blueprints design integration, strategy planning and the development and transformation process.
It enables you build your enterprise modelling approach by starting from the framework and adapting the generic business architecture, the various reference models, architecture principles and processes to your circumstances. A set of Posters sum up the key modelling aids.
The outcome of the Enterprise Modelling is the Enterprise Model (EM) which is the integrated set of the various domains blueprints, each further decomposable down to the level of detail required in practice.
The 2D/3D enterprise model design illustrates the integration of the various blueprints into the overall Enterprise Model. Once compliant with the framework and the one page business architecture, each blueprint will be consistent in terms of components, relationships, I/O, representations and scope and as such shall fit in the Enterprise Model.
The works aligns in the framework context the definitions of the key enterprise modelling elements such as process, value stream, flow, function, capability, service... and their relationships but also to put right such misinterpretations that Business Architecture is the same as a Business Model or Business Capability map.
Why this book?
The market is ripe for Enterprise Modelling. Companies are won over the utility of the Enterprise Model because it enables enterprise analysis, operational alignment and strategy execution while rendering it agile, ready for change. It also enables the reduction of the unnecessary enterprise complexity and its associated cost.
Still there is reluctance to engage in enterprise modelling since the existing methods typically are reduced to IT, fragmented and fail to deliver in practice. The reality is that each and every EA team has to build its own method before engaging in the enterprise architecture exercise. Because of that, most teams deliver seldom to expectations, with results that vary wildly from case to case. As such many EA practices prefer to engage in rather mundane activities such as architecture solutions, reviews and policing... without ever providing a reference Enterprise Model.
This step by step guide reduces the fragmentation in approach by proposing an end to end method that delivers and minimises the risks and costs of constructing own approach, time and again. It guarantees results and increases the productivity, predictability, repeatability and reliability of the Enterprise Modelling and Transformation.
The audience is indeed the Enterprise and Business Architect and the EA and Management consultant of any industry.
While the book describes an Enterprise wide Architecture modelling method, the activity is referred to as Enterprise Modelling to distinguish it from the Enterprise Architecture today which typically covers mainly IT. This work covers all tiers of the enterprise. The Information Technology is still in focus though because IT is the common denominator of any enterprise as is deeply embedded in the enterprise operation today and core to its digital future.
The handbook describes an one page generic business architecture, an enterprise modelling framework, a metamodel, sample models, blueprints design integration, strategy planning and the development and transformation process.
It enables you build your enterprise modelling approach by starting from the framework and adapting the generic business architecture, the various reference models, architecture principles and processes to your circumstances. A set of Posters sum up the key modelling aids.
The outcome of the Enterprise Modelling is the Enterprise Model (EM) which is the integrated set of the various domains blueprints, each further decomposable down to the level of detail required in practice.
The 2D/3D enterprise model design illustrates the integration of the various blueprints into the overall Enterprise Model. Once compliant with the framework and the one page business architecture, each blueprint will be consistent in terms of components, relationships, I/O, representations and scope and as such shall fit in the Enterprise Model.
The works aligns in the framework context the definitions of the key enterprise modelling elements such as process, value stream, flow, function, capability, service... and their relationships but also to put right such misinterpretations that Business Architecture is the same as a Business Model or Business Capability map.
Why this book?
The market is ripe for Enterprise Modelling. Companies are won over the utility of the Enterprise Model because it enables enterprise analysis, operational alignment and strategy execution while rendering it agile, ready for change. It also enables the reduction of the unnecessary enterprise complexity and its associated cost.
Still there is reluctance to engage in enterprise modelling since the existing methods typically are reduced to IT, fragmented and fail to deliver in practice. The reality is that each and every EA team has to build its own method before engaging in the enterprise architecture exercise. Because of that, most teams deliver seldom to expectations, with results that vary wildly from case to case. As such many EA practices prefer to engage in rather mundane activities such as architecture solutions, reviews and policing... without ever providing a reference Enterprise Model.
This step by step guide reduces the fragmentation in approach by proposing an end to end method that delivers and minimises the risks and costs of constructing own approach, time and again. It guarantees results and increases the productivity, predictability, repeatability and reliability of the Enterprise Modelling and Transformation.
The audience is indeed the Enterprise and Business Architect and the EA and Management consultant of any industry.
