Tag: Enterprise Architecture

The Enterprise Framework is a tool for managing the elements of enterprise development. It can be implemented in any appropriate content management tool *) that is used in the organisation. The framework is visualisation language and notation agnostic by default.

Introduction to EDGY introduces the Enterprise Design approach and related visualisatin language. The Enterprise Design is a holistic, coherent, and human-centric approach for designing better enterprises.

Enterprise Design and Enterprise Architecture are closely related disciplines that both aim to improve the functionality, efficiency, and alignment of an enterprise. Enterprise architecture can merge with enterprise design and leverage its holistic, human-centric and collaborative approach

EDGY provides an easy yet expressive language that everyone can use. EDGY offers a simple but powerful language that is accessible to all stakeholder groups within an enterprise. Visualisations with EDGY are simple and attractive, and everyone can interpret them intuitively and quickly. An interesting aspect is the Enterprise Design Facet Model, which can be used as an analysis tool to shift perspectives and reframe challenges into new ideas - from different angles. -- Eero Hosiaisluoma

A Milky Way Map is a visualisation of the geography of an enterprise’s business. It shows the big picture in a single view by combining the customer’s and the organisation’s business perspectives.

EDGY is based on only four elements. EDGY is simple but expressive. EDGY is a simple, beautiful, flexible but expressive general-purpose common language.

Enterprise Design covers all that is meaningful for understanding the enterprise as a whole. It is a holistic approach to designing better enterprises through three facets: identity, experience and architecture, and their intersections: organisation, brand and product.

Enterprise Design approach is based on the Facet Model, which consists of three facets and their intersections. These facets exist in all the enterprises. They are characteristics, qualities, that enterprises have by their nature, no matter of the size, no matter if they are intentionally designed or not. The facets represent the perspectives, the viewpoints, from which an enterprise can be observed.

EDGY is an open-source language for enterprise design. The EDGY is created for visualizing enterprises, and designed to connect people from different disciplines and become collaborative co-creators of better enterprises.