{"id":12692,"date":"2025-01-11T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosiaisluoma.fi\/design\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T06:54:03","slug":"applying-enterprise-design-with-edgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosiaisluoma.fi\/design\/applying-enterprise-design-with-edgy\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Enterprise Design with EDGY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a chapter from the EDGY Cookbook<\/a> (load complete PDF version of the EDGY Cookbook from this link<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n

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Enterprise Design Viewpoints<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are many disciplines, practices, and capabilities involved in the change and operational activities of an enterprise. Each discipline has its own purpose and specific focus area. Enterprise Design and EDGY can be applied across all disciplines to facilitate holistic collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure<\/strong>: Enterprise Design facilitates many practices of an enterprise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design<\/strong> and EDGY<\/strong> can be applied across all disciplines to facilitate holistic and human-centric collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The typical problem is that these disciplines often work independently and use different methods and tools. Each has its own focus areas, concepts, terminologies, and specialized competence roles. Enterprise Design, combined with EDGY, can integrate these distinct disciplines and enable cooperation by providing a holistic, coherent, and human-centric overview of the enterprise to support collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disciplines and Competence Areas<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The enterprise’s internal development activities are a complex mix of separate expert groups and practices, with insufficient interaction and collaboration between them. Each expert group operates with its own methods and tools, which are not well aligned or compatible with those of other groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The separation of different expert groups further complicates already challenging large-scale business transformations, effective operational performance, and delivering an excellent customer experience. Siloed work in distinct disciplines and separated practices can lead to several drawbacks that negatively impact organizational efficiency, innovation, and overall success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alert<\/strong>! A large portion of business transformation initiatives fail, operational activities are siloed and inefficient, and customer experience and -satisfaction are poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenges enterprises face:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure<\/strong>: Examples of challenges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The enterprise is under constant pressure from internal goals and external demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competences, Skills and Roles<\/strong>. There are lots of different specialist groups in an enterprise. Many of these practices and specialist roles work in their own bubbles. Typically, distinct disciplines and separate practices operate in isolation within communication silos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure<\/strong>: Examples of roles that participate in the disciplines of an enterprise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All disciplines view the enterprise from their own perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enterprise Design Approach<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Things can be improved by increasing and facilitating collaboration between internal expert groups and with customers. It is beneficial to use methods and tools that are easy for most people to adopt and use. Enterprise Design <\/strong>provide a comprehensive, holistic, human-centered and collaborative approach, along with a common language for all specialist groups. A holistic, human-centric, and collaborative approach is considered the most effective for designing and developing an enterprise because it ensures alignment of the enterprise’s goals, operations, and structures with the needs of its stakeholders (employees, customers, partners) and its long-term strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design provides a common language, the EDGY<\/strong>, that all groups of experts can understand and easily learn to use, facilitating collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design is a holistic, human-centric and collaborative approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design approach with EDGY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure<\/strong>: Enterprise Design is a holistic, human-centric and collaborative approach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Characteristics of aspects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Enterprise Design approach can be utilized in many different use cases, and the Facet Model can be applied for diverse purposes. EDGY can be used as an easy-to-understand language that everyone can use. Enterprise Design bridges the gap between distinct disciplines. By adopting the Enterprise Design approach and EDGY language, business can bridge departmental gaps, increase operational agility, and ensure that the enterprise remains relevant and efficient in an ever-evolving landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits of the holistic, human-centered and collaborative enterprise design approach:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enterprise Design <\/strong>facilitates the holistic, human-centric, and collaborative design to create better enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design is Holistic<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Holistic<\/strong>. The Enterprise Design Facet Model is a practical tool for implementing a holistic approach to enterprise development. It ensures alignment between purpose, experiences, and operations, and fosters collaboration. This comprehensive perspective enables enterprises to adapt to change while delivering value to all stakeholders. By using the Enterprise Design approach and EDGY notation, enterprises can adopt a holistic approach that aligns their purpose, operations, and stakeholder interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enterprise design approach helps balance competing priorities: internal goals and operational activities, as well as the demands arising from customer needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Enterprise Design Facet Model provides a structured tool for applying a holistic approach to ensure that all aspects of the enterprise are considered and aligned, human-centered, and designed for collaboration and adaptability. By integrating diverse perspectives, balancing priorities, and focusing on long-term impact, holistic overview creates a resilient, sustainable, and high-performing enterprise capable of thriving in a complex, ever-changing business environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design Facet Model introduces the perspectives of the enterprise (figure below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure<\/strong>: Enterprise Design as a holistic, human-centric and collaborative approach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Enterprise Design Facet Model<\/strong> provides a holistic overview of the enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design is Human-Centric<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Human-centrism<\/strong> is making enterprises more people-focused, empathetic, and inclusive. By designing with human *) (role or individual person) at the center, enterprises can create meaningful experiences, foster strong relationships, and achieve sustainable success while aligning strategic  and operational goals with the needs of stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A human-centric<\/strong> approach enriches enterprise design and development by ensuring that all strategies, decisions, and operations are based on the needs and experiences of people. When combined with a holistic and collaborative design approach, it enhances cross-functional alignment, drives innovation, and ensures sustainable, meaningful outcomes for both the enterprise and its stakeholders. Human-centered design covers experiences from all the stakeholder groups such as customers, users, employees, partners, owners, as well as individual personas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People<\/strong> **) create stories and tell narratives about the business, culture, and enterprise. People experience journeys and complete tasks to be done. People perform in capabilities based on specific competence roles. People are everywhere in the human-centric design. Human-centrism is all about people, in and around the enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n