Intersection
How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap between Business, Technology, and People
Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today's social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and human needs, modern enterprises must overcome the siloed thinking and isolated efforts of the past, and instead address their relationships to people holistically. In Intersection, Milan Guenther introduces a Strategic Design approach that aligns the overarching efforts of Branding, Enterprise Architecture, and Experience Design, and sets them on a common course to shape tomorrows enterprises.
This book gives designers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders a model and a comprehensive vocabulary for tackling such deep-rooted challenges. The Enterprise Design framework cuts through the complexity of Strategic Design work, showing how to navigate key aspects and bridge diverging viewpoints. In 9 case studies, the author looks at the way companies like SAP, BBVA, IKEA, and Jeppesen (a Boeing Company) apply design thinking and practice to shape their enterprises. Moving from strategy to conceptual design and concrete results, Intersection shows what is relevant at which point, and what expertise to involve.
Audience
- Executives and strategists looking to apply strategic design in their organizations, developing products, services, models, structures, and systems as part of a bigger whole, driving performance and competitiveness
- Designers and architects working on design challenges that require expanding their view on the enterprise as a playing field, looking beyond particular domains, projects, or intended outcomes
- Consultants and technologists being caught between the views, concerns, and interests of their clients and stakeholders, and looking to employ strategic design to generate a way to move forward
- Entrepreneurs and visionaries faced with the challenge of creating their enterprise from scratch, making the right decisions with regard to all relevant concerns and making their vision tangible
Paperback, 462 Pages
Published: October 2012
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-12-388435-0
Reviews
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"To read Milan Guenther's book
Intersection is to glimpes the future of design: holistic, collaborative, and networked. A rich presentation of a very rich subject."-Marty Neumeier, author ofThe Brand Gap andThe Designful Company "I am impressed by the thoroughness and thoughfulness of this major piece of work.Intersection marks Milan Guenther as a major contributor to the Enterprise Engineering, Design, and Architecture body of knowledge.-John A. Zachman, inventor of the Zachman Framework "With this book, Milan Guenter achieved a comprehensive reframing of the Enterprise concept for the 21st century with Design as its primary driver.Intersection will become a beacon for many in the design, business, and technology communities."-Peter Bogaards, User Experience Designer
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Thoughts on Strategic Design
Chapter 1: The Relationship Challenge
Chapter 2: Blurring BoundariesChapter 3: The Design-Minded Enterprise
Part II: The Enterprise Design FrameworkChapter 4: Big Picture
Chapter 5: AnatomyChapter 6: Frames
Chapter 7: Design SpaceChapter 8: Rendering
Part III: Design ApproachChapter 9: Design Process
Chapter 10: Design ProgramOutlook
