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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\n

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Enterprise<\/h2>\n\n\n
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“An enterprise is an endeavour of people with a shared ambition” [3]. An enterprise is a human-centric entity of behavior and structure, a coherent whole<\/em> with something in common. It consists of people and assets for performing behavior for a reason. Typically, we tend to consider an enterprise as single organisation. However, it is often bigger than that: cooperation of several organisations in a network, or collaboration in an ecosystem. In this context, the focus is on people, and on outcomes an enterprise is producing. \u2018From people to people.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An enterprise<\/strong> serves a clear purpose, is useful to people, and delivers on its promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The Enterprise Design is a holistic, coherent, and human-centric approach for designing better enterprises. Enterprise Design utilizes the EDGY language to enable collaboration between disciplines, leverages on collaboration and encourages to co-design. [3] <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Enterprise Design approach is based three facets: 1) identity, 2) experience and 3) architecture, together with their intersections: a) organisation, b) brand and c) product. All these facets and their intersections exist in typical enterprises, no matter the size or scope. These facets and intersections form the Facet Model<\/strong>, which can be used for asking questions for designing and reframing all kinds of design challenges. The Facet Model can be used as an analysis tool to shift perspectives and reframe challenges into new ideas – from different angles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Problem space and the solution.<\/strong> As a holistic, coherent, human-centric and collaborative approach, the Enterprise Design tackles the following problems: isolated design disciplines, diverse methods and separated tools, different terminologies, different visualisation languages, lack of communication over practices and organisation units, different substance- and subject matter experts etc. Fortunately, the Enterprise Design approach provides shared understanding with a common language – to innovate and transform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise Design <\/strong>facilitates the holistic co-design of enterprises through three coherent facets: identity, experience and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Enterprise Design enables people in enterprises to collaborate, communicate and create shared designs, in all the change activities and business transformations, no matter of the scale or size of those efforts, for making better decisions – for creating better enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better Enterprises<\/em><\/strong> pursue a clear purpose, are useful for people and their lives, perform and deliver on their promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDGY<\/strong> – E<\/strong>nterprise D<\/strong>esign G<\/strong>raph InterplaY<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n
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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. EDGY can be used as a common language for different professionals of diverse disciplines (such as service designers, UX- and CX-designers, product owners, business analysts, architects etc.). EDGY is a simple, colorful and appealing language. It has a limited set of concepts, which are easy to learn and easy to use. Everyone can understand EDGY right away, without a long learning curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDGY tool support<\/strong>. The EDGY language is supported by many tools such as Draw.io<\/a>, Miro, QualiWare<\/a>, Blue Doplhin<\/a>, PlantUML<\/a> and more to come. The EDGY diagrams can also be modelled with the Plain Old <\/em>PowerPoint. Free EDGY stencils<\/a> are available via Enterprise Design<\/a> pages (EDGY Tools<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDGY <\/strong>is Intersection Group’s Open Source tool designed to help people create better enterprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Intersection Group pages, (intro, tools, learning, events etc.) <\/a>https:\/\/intersection.group<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Enterprise design pages, <\/a>https:\/\/enterprise.design\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. EDGY language foundations<\/em>, book, 2023, (available as pdf), <\/a>link<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. EDGY 23 Language Foundations, Online course (4 weeks), Milan Guenther & Wolfgang Goebl, 2023<\/a> https:\/\/intersection.group\/learning\/intersection-academy\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Enterprise Design Patterns<\/em>, Intersection Group book, 2020, (available as pdf) link<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. EDGY 23 product release, launch on 29th March 2023, webinar recording, Milan Guenther & Wolfgang Goebl, link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Enterprise Design Approach<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

    Enterprise Design Facet Model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Enterprise Design approach is based on the Facet Model, which consists of three facets and their intersections.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    These facets exist in all enterprises and all types of business. They are characteristics and qualities, that enterprises have by their nature, regardless of the size, whether they are intentionally designed or not. The facets represent the perspectives or viewpoints from which an enterprise can be observed holistically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The facets are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n