Strategic canvases in Iyene
How Iyene's SWOT and Business Model Canvas tools connect strategic planning directly to your application inventory and capability map, instead of living as separate documents.
Strategic planning tools like SWOT analysis and the Business Model Canvas are usually kept separately from an organization's actual architecture data — a slide, a whiteboard photo, a document nobody updates after the workshop. Iyene keeps them connected instead.
What's available
SWOT analysis — map strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats against the applications and capabilities already recorded in Iyene, rather than starting from a blank grid.
Business Model Canvas — lay out the standard building blocks of your business model with a direct line back to the architecture data behind them.
Why connect strategy to architecture data
A strategic canvas built in isolation goes stale the moment the underlying architecture changes, because nothing ties the two together. Because Iyene's canvases map directly to your application inventory and capability map, a canvas reflects what's actually recorded elsewhere in your portfolio rather than a separate, easily-outdated snapshot.
Getting started
Strategic canvases are most useful once you already have some applications and capabilities recorded — see Getting Started and Capability Mapping in Iyene if you haven't set those up yet.