Application A piece of software supporting activities via user- or data interfaces.
Business An economically or organisationally separate area of our enterprise activity. Examples: legal entities such as public institution, company, association, NGO, or their subdivisions for specifi c product areas or geographic regions.
Business Cycle A high-level overview of a sequence of activities we are doing again and again as a business, e.g. from making/sourcing to delivering/learning.
Business Function An activity or group of activities carried out by an organisational unit that occurs regularly and realises a capability of the enterprise.
Business Object A business object represents a concept used within a particular business domain1 Business Objects are modelled in EDGY as structures.
Business Unit Synonym for organisational unit.
Co-creator A person that participates in the collaborative enterprise design process. Examples: employee, customer, partner, regulator, investor.
Constraint A constraint represents a factor that limits the realization of goals1
Creation Something people co-create during the enterprise design process. Examples: sketch, board, story, principle, dashboard, prototype.
Customer A person or an enterprise that buys products from an enterprise. Customer Segment The group of customers that you are aiming to sell your products to.
Data Facts or information, especially when examined and used to fi nd out things or to make decisions. Examples: physical properties of a locomotive, geolocation of our tracks, current speed of a train
Driver A driver represents an external or internal condition that motivates an enterprise to defi ne its goals and implement the changes necessary to achieve them.
Ecosystem An economic community supported by a foundation of interacting organisations and individuals—the organisms of the business world. The economic community produces goods and services of value to customers, who are themselves members of the ecosystem. The member organisms include suppliers, lead producers, competitors, and other stakeholders
Employee A person who is paid to work for somebody. 2
Enterprise An enterprise is an endeavour of people with a shared ambition. Enterprises are structured using a variety of organisation forms, such as companies, associations, groups of companies, departments or institutes. Enterprises have a purpose ranging from commercial, notfor- profit, government to ideological motivations. An enterprise's most important characteristic is that it brings together people and enables them to realise ambitions beyond fulfilling their immediate, day-today needs.
The EDGY specification uses the word "we" or "us" to refer to the enterprise in focus.
Enterprise design Enterprise design is the collaborative practice of designing coherent enterprise architectures, identities and experiences to realise an underlying purpose.
Event Events are activities by unspecified agents that happen inside or around the enterprise that trigger people's activities in response.
Goal An intended outcome that is aligned with the identity and strategy of the enterprise.
Information Facts or details about somebody/something.2 In EDGY information is modelled using the element data, a type of asset.
Initiative A plan for dealing with a particular problem or for achieving a particular purpose.2
Interface Where two elements meet and interact, enabling flow passing Data or other structures. Example: data interface between applications, user interface communicating information to people.
Investment Allocated money or other resources (time, energy, effort) in the expectation of some benefit/return in the future.3
Investor A person or an enterprise that invests money in another enterprise.
Management The activity of running and controlling a business by dealing with or controlling things or people.2
Media The physical form in which data is stored for future use and communication to people. Examples: software, print, screen, audio.
Metric A quantifiable means of evaluating an outcome.
Mission Statement A mission statement is a piece of content that describes the purpose of the enterprise. It positions the enterprise, implicitly or explicitly, in one or more industries or sectors and specifies what it aims to do within these industries.
Objective Measurable, quantified goal with an associated timeframe.
Organisational Unit A group of people working together to realise capabilities (e.g. teams, departments, committees, project teams) All organisational units together form the organisation of the enterprise.
Output A structure that a person, a machine or an organisation produces. Can be a product or an intermediary output. Leads to intended or unintended outcomes (depending on the context and way of usage).
Partner A person or an enterprise that has an agreement with another enterprise.2
Project Synonym for initiative.
Regulator An enterprise that officially controls an area of business or industry to ensure that businesses operating within its scope of control are operating fairly.
Resource Synonym for asset.
Role The function or position that somebody has in an enterprise.2
Service A service is an activity that adds a benefit to people. Services are modelled using the EDGY element product, combined with the elements process and journey to model production and consumption over time. Stakeholder Synonym for co-creator.
Strategy Actionable pathway towards achieving the purpose of the enterprise. Strategy sets direction for the design and realisation of goals and capabilities.
Team A group of people who work together at a particular job.2
Touchpoint A touchpoint is a moment of interaction between an enterprise and people. Touchpoints can be modelled using the EDGY element journey to represent moments over time, or channel to represent the means of interaction.
Value The quality of being useful or important.2 Belief about what is right and wrong and what is important in life.2 In enterprises, value is created as intended outcomes often outside the company when the right product supports the right tasks for the right people in the right context.
Value Stream Value streams are the major horizontal processes in any enterprise with a clear goal: to satisfy or to delight the customer.4 Value streams are modelled using the EDGY element process.
Vision An idea or a picture of the enterprise in your imagination.2 In EDGY the enterprise vision is a depiction of an idealised, usually future version of the enterprise, captured as stories and communicated as content.