Most organisations already use many ways to describe and navigate change: diagrams, journeys, roadmaps, sticky notes, spreadsheets, architecture maps in ArchiMate® or BMPN, service blueprints and more. Yet teams still struggle to create shared understanding across disciplines, silos and levels of complexity.
In this session, Daniel Simon (Across & Ahead) presents new survey findings on how enterprise professionals actually work in practice. The results challenge the idea that one method, framework or language can solve everything. Instead, they reveal a more hybrid reality: successful teams combine multiple tools and approaches depending on the people, context and challenge.
The session also explores why many modelling approaches fail to gain traction outside specialist groups, and what can make enterprise design more collaborative, accessible and useful for real transformation work.
Following the presentation, Daniel is joined by Milan Guenther and Helgi Mar Björgvinsson to discuss what these insights mean for the future of enterprise design and the evolving role of EDGY: helping people across architecture, design, product and transformation create a shared understanding of complex enterprises together.
Daniel Simon is the Founder and Managing Director of ACROSS & AHEAD. His passion is to guide enterprises on their business design and transformation journeys. He has extensive experience in establishing architecture practices, developing architecture blueprints, and facilitating business design and transformation activities. Daniel is also a long-time trainer in the field. Among others, he has been running courses on business architecture for many years. Daniel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. He is the (co-)author of various publications on business architecture and enterprise architecture and regularly speaks at conferences and events.
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.
Milan is president of Intersection Group, and a co-founder of the consultancy Enterprise Design Associates and Teamenu, a digital workplace SAAS business. 12 years back, Milan launched a social software startup and designed a patented innovation for commercial flight decks. Today he works with enterprises of all shapes and sizes, to make them deliver, and useful to people. He's been working with enterprises like Google, SAP, Toyota, the OECD and the UN. His first book Intersection introduces this Enterprise Design approach, and he is co-organising the Intersection conference series since 2014. He is co-author of the book Enterprise Design Patterns and curator of EDGY, an Open Source tool for co-creating better enterprises, adopted by organisations around the globe.
