Most initiatives do not fail when they start. They fail when understanding is assumed.
By then, funding, planning and delivery are already built on a reality that exists only in fragments, spread across roles and disciplines. Everyone believes they understand the situation. Few see the whole. Nobody understands it the same way. It is the pattern behind most enterprise AI programmes that are quietly not delivering: the technology is understood, the enterprise it is landing in is not.
This session challenges a habit so ingrained it is rarely noticed: the belief that alignment emerges from discussion, documentation or good intentions. It does not. It has to be deliberately created.
Helgi and Milan walk through the Enterprise Scan, a structured way of surfacing what people actually believe about the enterprise, and where those beliefs diverge.
Live only: we run a compressed scan on an initiative the audience nominates in the chat. Expect at least one uncomfortable answer.
You may leave slightly less comfortable than you arrived. You will leave with a clearer view of reality.
Helgi Björgvinsson is a senior Enterprise Architect with more than 15 years of experience working with architecture, strategy, leadership, and change in complex organisational environments across both the public and private sectors.
He has been actively involved with the Intersection Group for over five years and has been a member of its core group for more than two. Helgi is the principal author of the EDGY Enterprise Scan, where he focuses on helping organisations surface misalignment early, create shared understanding, and design change based on a holistic view of the enterprise.
Milan is president of Intersection Group, and a co-founder of the consultancy Enterprise Design Associates and Teamenu, a digital workplace SAAS business. 12 years back, Milan launched a social software startup and designed a patented innovation for commercial flight decks. Today he works with enterprises of all shapes and sizes, to make them deliver, and useful to people. He's been working with enterprises like Google, SAP, Toyota, the OECD and the UN. His first book Intersection introduces this Enterprise Design approach, and he is co-organising the Intersection conference series since 2014. He is co-author of the book Enterprise Design Patterns and curator of EDGY, an Open Source tool for co-creating better enterprises, adopted by organisations around the globe.
