EDGY is useful for anyone working on enterprise change, and not limited to professional strategists, designers, architects or facilitators. You can use it to work on strategy, structure, experience, and everything in between. It’s a simple language that supports shared understanding and better decisions. EDGY is a platform for tools, approaches, maps and practices to co-create better enterprises.

EDGY consists of:

• a shared language of Enterprise Design Facets and Enterprise Elements
• a collection of Enterprise Design Principles and Patterns
• a growing number of curated tools and maps

We created EDGY because we believe better enterprises are key to advancing society. And they don’t get better by accident, they get better with intent.

Why we made EDGY

Enterprise change often fails because it happens in silos. Architects, designers, strategists, and leaders all use different tools and talk past each other. Working within silos such as HR, IT, Operations, Marketing or Digital, they excel at providing point solutions for isolated problem settings, but fall short of addressing cross-cutting concerns beyond their immediate scope. EDGY is a way to work across those roles, with shared concepts and visual tools that make complexity manageable. We maintain and improve EDGY as a not-for-profit association, with the support of a global community.

It’s already used by startups, corporations, public institutions, and consultancies. It’s designed for anyone working to make sense of (parts of) an enterprise and enable change for the better. And if it’s useful to you, go ahead and use it, and let us know how it went!