EDGY:Create

Create your EDGY Tool

A huge number of tools are available today to help design and create better enterprises. Consultancies have tools for their clients and to support their own consulting work; project managers and teams use tools to coordinate work; designers use a wide variety of research methods, workshop formats, and visualisations to design brands, content, products and services; IT architects use specialised modelling languages to design software and infrastructure; coaches apply tools and techniques to influence the social systems of enterprises.

Most of those tools are tailored to specific structural or social aspects of Enterprise Design. Because they are disconnected from each other, however, they do not support the coherent design approach that is needed to design the better enterprises we want to see. We want to enable co-creators from all disciplines to connect their work across disciplines, using a connected, coherent, freely available set of tools. That is why we launched EDGY as the open-source platform for enterprise design tools.

The EDGY platform helps you promote your tools and connect them to other EDGY tools on the platform. Using the EDGY language will guarantee your tool is compatible with all the other EDGY-based tools. Together will other EDGY authors, you will be able to co-create the set of coherent Enterprise Design tools needed to design better enterprises.

Examples of tools include:

• an Enterprise Scan to explore the design challenge at hand;
• methods for identifying design challenges;
• methods for strategy formulation;
• maps and diagrams that support exploration and co-creation;
• workshops or structured interview formats;
• spreadsheets that connect EDGY with the OKR methodology;
• methods to organise the “ways of working” of realisation teams (e.g. connecting Scrum or SAFe to EDGY).

Let’s work together on a common open-source standard for Enterprise Design tools!