Modeling the Enterprise as Services with Enterprise Canvas
Mapping an enterprise effectively is a significant challenge for strategists and architects. This book presents an innovative method using the Enterprise Canvas, which models the enterprise as services. This approach aims to establish consistency across all levels, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the organization as a cohesive whole.
Learn Enterprise Architecture and Its Viable Services
Focusing on service-oriented architecture, this book illustrates its significance beyond IT applications, extending to web development, social software, and cloud computing. It emphasizes how integrating enterprise architecture with viable services can transform the enterprise into a cohesive, dynamic entity. Readers will discover strategies for simplifying complex systems while enhancing their overall power and effectiveness, ultimately presenting a unified perspective of the enterprise's operations and capabilities.
Sense-making, Strategy, Structures, and Solutions
Focusing on the activities essential for effective enterprise architecture, this book guides business and enterprise architects in delivering rapid solutions tailored for a fast-paced business environment. It emphasizes the importance of practices over mere outcomes, providing insights into how to adapt and thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.
Change-mapping is a structured method to guide change affecting organisations. Inside this book you will find how to use Change-mapping to explore or resolve issues affected by change. The book introduces Change-mapping and takes you step by step through a basic mission to map change. In addition there are a complete set of tool-sheets ready to be used in your own Change-mapping missions and a brief guide to using Change-mapping to explore or resolve larger scale and complex issues.
Exploring themes of love, loss, and race, this memoir offers a raw and introspective look into Tom Graves' life in Memphis. As an author, journalist, and college professor, Graves candidly reveals his dark past, inviting readers to engage with his unvarnished experiences. The narrative delves into the complexities of identity and the impact of his surroundings, providing a profound reflection on personal and societal issues.
The result of careful and meticulous research, this stylishly-written biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi. When he died at age 27 of a mysterious poisoning, many superstitious fans came to believe that the Devil had returned to take his due. This diligent study of Johnson's life debunks these myths while emphasizing the effect that Robert Johnson, said to be the greatest blues musician who ever lived, has had on modern musicians such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones and fans of the blues. Tom Graves, a master of what Ernest Hemingway called "the true sentence" and the telling detail, pieces together the fragments of the jagged, elusive puzzle that is Robert Johnson.
The collection showcases award-winning journalist Tom Graves's long-form journalism and interviews with intriguing figures from the entertainment world. Highlighted by his rare encounter with silent film star Louise Brooks, the anthology also features conversations with notable personalities like Frank Zappa and Harry Crews. Graves explores diverse topics, including the Sex Pistols' influence, the search for actress Linda Haynes, and reflections on cultural events like Woodstock. This compilation offers a deep dive into the lives and stories of charmers and dreamers in the arts.
This groundbreaking book places story at center-stage 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 to use story within the architecture to enhance overall enterprise effectiveness.
The novel delves into the intersection of sustainability and legal frameworks, arguing that a supportive legal system is crucial for achieving a sustainable world. It challenges readers to shift their focus from material possession to a more meaningful purpose, suggesting that such a transformation is essential for fostering a truly sustainable society. Through its exploration of these themes, the book invites reflection on the role of law in environmental and social change.
The book presents a novel model-type designed to universally describe various elements across all enterprise levels. This framework serves as a consistent reference point, integrating and supporting the diverse models required in different architectural contexts.