In today’s complex organizations, drowning in data and starved for clarity, structured knowledge is a competitive advantage. Yet teams often face fragmented information, inconsistent language, and unreliable data. The hidden culprit? A lack of intentional taxonomies.
This session explores how well-designed taxonomies can bring order to chaos –enabling smarter decisions, more trustworthy AI outcomes, and better strategic alignment. Far from being dry classification systems, taxonomies act as invisible scaffolding that shapes how information flows, how collaboration happens, and how value is created. As generative AI tools become pervasive, the stakes grow higher. Without clear, consistent taxonomies, automation can amplify confusion rather than reduce it –garbage in, garbage out.
This conversation also complements the EDGY framework, where Tree relations structure enterprise elements and Objects capture meaning and purpose. While this session focuses on practical taxonomy design, it connects to broader enterprise modelling practices, helping participants bridge local clarity with systemic coherence. Grounded in principles of Information Architecture and Design, this workshop invites you to reclaim taxonomy as a strategic discipline—not an afterthought."
After moving to Paris, Guiseppe Attoma became a pioneer in Service Design, Information Design, and User Experience Design in France. Through his agency, Attoma, he has addressed complex challenges in mobility, urban infrastructure, the energy transition, and the manufacturing and IT sectors. With over 25 years of international design experience, he now works as a Strategic Design Consultant, leading missions that span the design, structuring, and evaluation of complex service systems.
Alok b. Nandi is busy with innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, powered by narrative and design tools. His professional experiences cover a range of entrepreneurial activities (intrapreneurship, spin-off, creative industries) and advisory roles, including brand/advertising and communication (P&G – Procter & Gamble, EC pan-europeans campaigns), film production, exhibition design and new media in publishing (Casterman – publisher of a.o. Tintin, Groupe Flammarion). He is dealing with storytelling in multiple media, space and technologies, from high-tech interactive installations to low-tech mise-en-scène. Speaker at international conferences and events, incl. PechaKucha Tokyo, TEDx Flanders, IxDA, Cumulus, WDO, SDN. Invited lecturer in multiple institutions, Alok Nandi is professor of Innovation & Design at Institut Lyfe, hospitality-culinary school in Lyon, co-founded by chef Paul Bocuse, 3* Michelin. He has founded PechaKucha Brussels, and he co-initiated the P-R-E series, Practitioners meeting Researchers meeting Educators, organised by Cumulus Association and IxDA.
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