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T. GravesMapping the Enterprisehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9836-7_1

1. What Is the Enterprise Canvas?

Tom Graves1  
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Sailors Gully, VIC, Australia
 

The Enterprise Canvas is a quick, easy way to describe just about anything in an enterprise. It’s a visual checklist that’s simple enough to scribble on the back of a napkin, yet it can also carry enough detail to link in with formal modeling tools for project management, system design, strategy simulation, and the rest.

The role of Enterprise Canvas is that it’s a way to support conversations about ensuring that everything connects together properly across the whole enterprise. And the reason we’d want ...

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