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Business-models, concepts and frameworks

How to create business-models for all needs

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores a range of themes relating to business-models and their background.

This book includes about 35 posts and 80 images from the weblog. These posts are split into four groups:

  • Business Models: Business-Model - assesses the purpose and function of business-models in business-architecture.
  • Business Models: Business Model Canvas - outlines usages for the well-known Business Model Canvas in non-profit organisations and beyond startups.
  • Business Models: Business-Architecture Frameworks - summarises business-architecture frameworks that can be used in conjunction with business-models.
  • Business Models: Business Concepts - shows how core business-concepts may apply in context of business-models.

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Tom Graves

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.

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Table of Contents

BUSINESS-MODELS: INTRODUCTION

BUSINESS-MODELS: BUSINESS-MODEL

What’s my own business-model?

More on business-models

From business-model to enterprise-architecture

  1. Step 1: Develop a business-model
  2. Step 2: Re-map the overall business-model as related services
  3. Step 3: Expand the detail of the overall business-model
  4. Step 4: Expand the Key Activities to Archimate ‘Application’ detail
  5. Step 5: Expand the Key Resources to Archimate ‘Infrastructure’ detail
  6. Step 6: Apply enterprise-architecture disciplines to review the business-model

Why business-model to enterprise-architecture?

Questions on business-model to enterprise-architecture

Business-models between for-profit and not-for-profit

What’s the scope of a business-model?

Hidden risks in business-model design

Using SCORE to reframe the business-model

Backbone and business-rules

Competition-against or competition-with?

  1. Implications in business-architecture and enterprise-architecture

Upwards and sideways from business-model (short version)

  1. Investors and beneficiaries
  2. Guidance – direction-services
  3. Guidance – coordination-services
  4. Guidance – validation-services

Upwards and sideways from business-model

  1. Investors and beneficiaries
  2. Guidance – an overview
  3. Guidance – direction-services
  4. Guidance – coordination-services
  5. Guidance – validation-services

Every organisation is ‘for-profit’

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture
  2. Anyway, that should give you more than enough to think about for now :-) - any comments, anyone?

BUSINESS-MODELS: BUSINESS-MODEL CANVAS

Business Model Canvas – a version for non-profits

Using Business Model Canvas for non-profits

  1. Business Model Canvas for commercial organisations
  2. Change the building-block labels for non-profit organisations
  3. Connecting to vision
  4. Asymmetry of service
  5. Investors and beneficiaries
  6. Summary

Business Model Canvas to Archimate (the short version)

  1. Step 1: Start with a business-model on Business Model Canvas
  2. Step 2: Separate out the players on the business-model
  3. Step 3: Expand the detail for the interfaces of the business-model
  4. Step 4: Expand the Key Activities
  5. Step 5: Expand the Key Resources
  6. Step 6: Apply enterprise-architecture disciplines as required

Business Model Canvas beyond startups - Part 1

  1. Overview

Business Model Canvas beyond startups - Part 2: Front-end

  1. 1: Customer Segments
  2. 2: Value Propositions
  3. 3: Channels
  4. 4: Customer Relationships
  5. 5: Revenue Streams

Business Model Canvas beyond startups - Part 3: Back-end

  1. 6: Key Resources
  2. 7: Key Activities
  3. 8: Key Partners
  4. 9: Cost Structure

BUSINESS-MODELS: BUSINESS-ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORKS

Business-architecture frameworks

EA and the Content Economy

Enterprise Business Motivation Model

More on Enterprise Business Motivation Model

Open Group on business-capabilities - a quick review

BUSINESS-MODELS: BUSINESS CONCEPTS

The enterprise, the organisation and the ‘big picture’

Enterprise architecture and strategy

Architecture is non-functional

Non-functional elements in enterprise-architecture

Requirements vs constraints

The Performance Paradox

Push or pull? - two views of enterprise

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