Modeling Enterprise Architectures
Business Process Management is one of the few courses from in bachelor of Information Science that I can truly say is useful. Besides business process modeling we were also taught how to model enterprise architectures.
I am currently working on a new business endeavor and my modeling skills came in handy for creating the supply chain diagram. Not that it’s difficult to create one or anything.
The supply chain diagram shows how the enterprise works together with business partners to produce the goods or services for the customers. You can look at it as a abstraction of the business model.
I’m not going to show the actual diagram I created, because that would ruin the surprise. But here is a clear example of a supply chain diagram of Center Parcs taken from the article of Koning et al.
[ Tool for BPM gliffy.com ]
Crush It!
“Crush It” by Gary Vaynerchuk is a must read for any of you out there interested in an online entrepreneurial endeavor. The book focuses on how you can cash in on your passion using social platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
By creating a blog or video blog on a subject you really like - your passion - and using the social platforms out there to promote it, you will get more viewers and this in turn would attract advertisers and potential investors. Sounds easy and simple, right? Yeah it is simple, but as Gary explains it, you really gotta work your ass off and CRUSH IT!
Gary really pumps you up and motivates you to start working hard. I definitely recommend this book to all my friends and anyone wanting to make some money of the internet on something they have a passion for.
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