Intersection Group helps people create better enterprises. We achieve this by building an interdisciplinary community and a platform for individuals and enterprises to collaborate and exchange ideas.
Intersection Group is a global community of people passionate about
creating better enterprises,
led by practitioners from many fields. We are a not-for-profit association headquartered in Vienna,
Austria,
and guided by a global team of experienced practitioners.
We welcome practitioners who want to join our association and contribute.
Our members work as designers and architects, analysts and advisors,
founders and executives, investors and leaders, coaches and mentors, authors and researchers.
We extend an open invitation to anyone with an interest in the challenge and ambition of
Enterprise Design: intentional and meaningful enterprise change.
We are the creators of EDGY,
an
Open Source
toolset developed to help people
create better enterprises together. We curate contributions and maintain its evolution.
EDGY combines approaches from disciplines such as Enterprise and Business Architecture,
Service and Organisation Design, Brand Identity and Strategic Management,
making them work together in a seamless approach for more coherent enterprises.
EDGY is adopted worldwide by enterprises and people who seek to change them.
Our growing network of practitioners develops content, learning products, methods and tools.
We collaborate with enterprise, consulting, learning and tool
partners,
applying EDGY to enable holistically designed enterprise change in their projects and products.
Intersection Group is set up as a community and open ecosystem. We invite leading voices and professionals from connected disciplines to join our community and help shape our thinking, tools and publications. Our local communities bring people together around the world, organise events and collect cases and stories.
Our members are practitioners who co-develop EDGY and related content,
learning offerings, tools and activities.
We work with our partners who apply the EDGY toolset in their
projects
and build up EDGY Champions leading the way.
They develop products implementing this approach, deliver services and learning formats,
and support our research and development work.
We work in teams focused on core topics in Enterprise Design and the development of EDGY and
Intersection Group,
run by volunteers and contributors. These teams shape our activities and events, and upcoming tools and publications.
Everything we build is part of a shared platform. It's open source, open access, and always
evolving.
We promote and encourage collaboration between members, taking different forms:
professional relationships, business opportunities, jobs, and friendships.
We started our journey in 2012 with the book
Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap
Between Business, Technology and People
by Milan Guenther,
co-founder of the European design consultancy Enterprise Design Associates.
This book first introduced the idea of an Enterprise Design approach,
together with a framework and methodology.
Since 2014, the Intersection Conference series
has attracted a growing number of Enterprise Design practitioners across the globe every year.
Past conferences have taken place in Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Prague, Lisbon,
Stockholm, Vienna, Rome and Brussels.
Things accelerated when Milan joined
Wolfgang Goebl
in the leadership team of the Architectural Thinking Association,
founded in 2018, a not-for-profit organisation developing tools
to move architecture from an engineering discipline to an everyday practice for business people.
In 2020 we brought our communities together to form Intersection Group,
dedicated to developing the next-generation approach for creating better enterprises.
In 2023 we released the first version of EDGY and launched our first local community in Montreal,
followed by Paris, Florianópolis, Australia, Germany and the UK.
Beyond community growth, we see EDGY adoption as a shared language and common standard for change,
uniting enterprise teams, consultancies, learning providers and digital tool makers.
We are always looking for new members to join our community. If you are interested in joining Intersection Group, explore membership options.
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