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Making Sense of Services in EA

Structure, design, governance and value-flow

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores the role and function of services as a foundational structure for use in enterprise-architectures.

This book includes about 40 posts and 115 images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:

  • Services and Enterprise Canvas - reviews the role and structure of the service-oriented Enterprise Canvas model-type.
  • Service and Product - explores the relationships between services and product, and how those relationships work in practice.
  • Services: Other Themes - presents further aspects of services in enterprise-architecture.

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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

SERVICES: INTRODUCTION

SERVICES AND ENTERPRISE CANVAS

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - Introduction

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 1: Core

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 2: Supplier and customer

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 3: Guidance-services

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 3A: Direction

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 3B: Coordination

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 3C: Validation

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 3D: Investors

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 4: Layers

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 5: Service-content

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 6: Exchanges

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - Summary

  1. How do we use all of this stuff?

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - worked-example

  1. Practical implications

Enterprise Canvas and the Service Cycle

Enterprise Canvas as service-viability checklist

  1. As-is, to-be and gap-analysis
  2. A note on layers
  3. The service itself
  4. Nature of service
  5. Service-provision
  6. Consuming other services
  7. Guidance service-relationships
  8. Guidance – direction
  9. Guidance – coordination
  10. Guidance – validation
  11. Investors and beneficiaries
  12. Iteration and recursion
  13. It’s all about story

SERVICE AND PRODUCT

Product and service

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

From product to service

From service to product

Service, product, service

Service, product and architecture terminology

Service, product, service, simplified

Service, product, service - implications for architectures

Service, product, service - a novel concept?

Service, product, service - a question of structure?

Service, product, service - service as product?

Service, product, service - everything for hire?

Service, product, service - responsibilities

Service, product, service - start with product

Service, product, service - promise and product

Service, product, service - summary and checklists

SERVICES: OTHER THEMES

The meaning of service

What is the boundary of a service?

Service-design: How long is a service?

Services, customers and citizens

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Product, service and trust

On function, capability and service

Service, function and capability (again)

Service, function and capability (an addendum)

Why service, function and capability

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