Some of us are not visual thinkers. Faced with a blank page, we blank. We default to text, because precision feels safer than a diagram we are not sure how to draw.
This session is a confession and a case study. I have almost no visual imagination and close to zero artistic talent. EDGY fixed exactly one of those problems.
What EDGY gives me is a scaffold to start from. A structure that makes my assumptions visible, to myself and to others: about how things work, how things relate, what things are for. Assumptions that would otherwise risk staying buried in paragraphs of text.
The diagram becomes something to point at. Something for the room to probe, question, and build on. It doesn't have to be pretty. It doesn't even have to survive the meeting.
Through real examples from my current work, I'll show how I, despite my lack of visual imagination, use EDGY for structuring thoughts, surfacing assumptions, and enabling more constructive collaboration.
Helgi Björgvinsson is a senior Enterprise Architect with more than 15 years of experience working with architecture, strategy, leadership, and change in complex organisational environments across both the public and private sectors.
He has been actively involved with the Intersection Group for over five years and has been a member of its core group for more than two. Helgi is the principal author of the EDGY Enterprise Scan, where he focuses on helping organisations surface misalignment early, create shared understanding, and design change based on a holistic view of the enterprise.
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