#140 - Playable Enterprises - with Annika Klyver and Milan Guenther

About this episode

Milan Guenther and Annika Klyver discuss the evolution of enterprise architecture towards enterprise design and the impact of AI on organizational coordination.

Milan Guenther and Annika Klyver, seasoned practitioners working at the intersection of enterprise architecture, enterprise design, and organisational transformation, join this episode to explore how organisations can better describe, design, and ultimately execute how they create value in a complex AI-enabled world. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, they reflect on the evolution from traditional enterprise architecture toward enterprise design, talking about tools like EDGY and the Milky Way map that help organisations create a shared organisational perspective. The discussion also explores how AI and distributed capabilities are reshaping coordination within organisations, why we need new design languages that balance visual collaboration with more formal, machine-readable models, and so much more. As we reflect on how enterprise design can help organisations move beyond static diagrams, we learn how to move from simply describing enterprise scenarios to “pressing play,” simulating, coordinating, and executing complex value flows across complex ecosystems. Tune in. Milan, President of Intersection Group and co-author of Enterprise Design Patterns, and Annika Klyver…

People in this episode

Guests: Milan Guenther, Annika Klyver

Topics covered

• enterprise architecture
• enterprise design
• organisational transformation
• AI-enabled world
• value creation
• coordination
• design languages

Keywords

• enterprise design
• AI
• value flows
• organizational capabilities
• design languages
• coordination
• complex ecosystems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Intersection Group, TRATON Group

Products: EDGY, Milky Way map

Books & works: Enterprise Design Patterns

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