The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation

re: The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation

Adam Johnson — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:09:58 GMT

Great post Nick... I recently completed a business architecture design & planning exercise with a LoB utilizing the Business Model (inspired by Alex's work) as the primary model from which change should be captured and strategies and investment decisions aligned to. Would love to pass some of the overview work your way for your feedback and potential inspiration. I faced a good bit of the challenges you seem to have solved or are trying to solve in utilizing the canvas and underlying information architecture. I have leveraged your Motivation model in the past to help rationalize my thinking and would like to give back per se...

It was very successful, but trying and complicated at the same time. Biggest lesson I learned was no matter how close you feel you are to capturing the heart of motivation, leaders are still the key to success. Having them on-board and unifying strategies is paramount. I believe agreement on the business model and/or changes to it provide the means for unification to take place.

Let me know if that would work for you and how I can pass along my work. Either way your post is spot on.

re: The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation

Nick Malik — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:02:39 GMT

@John,

I send you a note on LinkedIn to follow up.

--- Nick

re: The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation

John Polgreen — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:06:24 GMT

At last month's Open Group's member meeting in DC, a joint workgroup between the ArchiMate Forum and the Architecture Forum, was formed to help harmonize ArchiMate and TOGAF. A key peice of this work is harmonizing the two metamodels. As you know, the weakest part of both metamodels is business architecture. The type of thinking you have presented here will be very helpful to this group. I will make sure that all members have this post. Beyond that, if you could join our workgroup on behalf of Microsoft, I'm sure your contribution would be greatly appreciated.

re: The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation

Mike Clark — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:50:28 GMT

Really nice, and shows the importance of models and also touches on combining frameworks which is also key, as there is no one size that fits all. To obtain a 360 view of the business you need the full set of business models, without them you are possibly only looking at a single perspective. You must be able to look through a variety of lenses only then can you say you have a true business model :-)

I would also add until the business can own the models in a simple way, the process becomes complex. Simplifying the approach but also having models which are described in business terms across the business model truly aligns all parts of the business and starts to the build the 360 views we all strive for.