Enterprise Design Patterns | Creations Patterns
“Resilience is really about collaboration and mutual understanding.”
- Roger Simpson
Related Patterns:
#6: Shared Enterprise Vision, #7: Safe Negotiation Space, #8: Clear Ownerships, #10: Shepherded Realisation, #33: Beauty, #35: Management Instruments
Running a collaborative Enterprise Design process requires a shared understanding of where the enterprise is now and where we want it to go.
In this context:
The creations of different design disciplines each address specific design challenges but are not known or understood by everyone else in the enterprise. Creations often are produced in relative isolation from work done by others. Because of this, most co-creators feel no sense of co-ownership for what has been produced. As a result, the different design disciplines cannot effectively work together on a common Enterprise Design.
Therefore:
You run a broad elicitation and negotiation process to include the viewpoints of all relevant co-creators. You draw a concise, beautiful map that depicts an aggregated view of the enterprise everybody can understand. You:
- Help your co-creators get as much of a sense of co-creatorship as possible;
- Use hand-drawn, on the fly pictures in meetings to facilitate and summarise the shared understanding;
- Establish an enterprise core map as a central tool everybody in the company knows and refers to;
- Promote the use of this map as a management instrument;
- Encourage teams to align their solutions with the enterprise core map.
Consequently:
You now have a concise picture that shows what the enterprise has agreed on as a shared understanding of its current and future identity, experience and architecture. Everybody is on board and recognises how their work connects to this picture, facilitating their participation in the collaborative Enterprise Design process.