Enterprise Design

Get Ready for CSRD

Details

The new EU sustainability directive, CSRD, is on everyone’s lips right now for two reasons:

  • First, over the next few years, it will impact the majority of businesses in the EU. And not just in the EU, but also all those companies around the world that collaborate with EU businesses. In other words, CSRD will also affect your business.
  • The second reason is that CSRD is historically ambitious and demands more from sustainability reporting than ever before.

So, for all companies, it’s essential to get started.

And QualiWare can help you with that:

  • At QualiWare, we understand that complying with the CSRD can be complex and even overwhelming.
  • QualiWare can help you manage your journey towards CSRD compliance.

This is how QualiWare can help:

QualiWare makes CSRD compliance easier by describing and exploring the regulations and enabling you to link these with the relevant processes, policies, objectives ect. within your organization.

For instance, with QualiWare, you can specify who is responsible for the specific tasks or data required by the CSRD. This ensures you always have a clear overview of how you meet each CSRD requirement.

Additionally, QualiWare aids in identifying and managing potential risks associated with these processes and enables you to develop effective management strategies.

Designed for collaboration, QualiWare streamlines the process of keeping everything up to date and aligned with necessary actions.

Overall, QualiWare not only saves you time and money but also makes the compliance process much simpler and more efficient. With QualiWare, you can rest assured that your organization complies with the CSRD, contributing to a more sustainable future.

About the webinar:

The webinar is targeted at everyone working with compliance and/or sustainability management.

It will be somewhat technical, as we will show how our tool can help you.

So after the webinar, you will have a good sense of how QualiWare can help you manage the CSRD requirements– and you will know how to achieve compliance with QualiWare.

On the webinar we will show:

How you can use the regulation diagrams to explore, understand, and scope the regulations that are relevant for your organization

For each of the relevant parts of the regulations, you can associate one or more objects to document your compliance, e.g. processes, policies, objectives and plans.

For each of the complying objects, you can use the QualiWare governance workflow engine to distribute responsibility in the organization and monitor progress

You can use the comprehensive modeling capability in QualiWare to model the relevant parts needed to get a comprehensive overview of the different parts, such as your ecosystem, supply chain, value streams, product architecture, products, etc.

In addition, QualiWare also contains a whole set of models related to  keep track of your  strategy model, plans, goals, and roadmaps related to your sustainability efforts.

Speakers:

  • Martin Tølle, Business Architect, QualiWare

Moderator:

  • Kevin Bowles, Product Owner: Enterprise Architecture at QualiWare.

Additional information

Read more about QualiWare and CSRD here.

Business Architecture

QualiWare has included the PRG Framework for Business Architecture from the Process Renewal Group.

The Process Renewal Group model, which is the origin of the BPTrends methodology, was originally formulated in the mid-nineties and has undergone continuing evolution for twenty years to remain a modern way of designing a business. It incorporates the best of the approaches described so far combined with other ideas that have stood the test of time. Within the past year it has been subject to a significant update to connect traditional and new ideas into a comprehensive Business Architecture framework and methodology as depicted in the figure below. The diagram shows the main logic of the discovery and design process.

As can be seen in picture above, the framework support the phases from defining the business to its operation:

  • Define the Business
  • Design the Business
  • Build the Business
  • Operate the Business

The Framework has been modelled as an Architecture Framework in QualiWare. Each of the 4 phase are broken down into 4 areas (framework cells), and for each of the 16 cells we have mapped relevant QualiWare templates that supports the associated task.

The PRG Framework has been incorporated in the QualiWare version 10.9 as part of a dedicated dekstop for Business Architecture.

More information:

 

EDGY – Create a better enterprise

Are you stuck in an IT-centric architecture practice? Are you challenged to drive outside-in, experience-driven, purposeful business transformations? Are you looking to better engage executives, and your peers in product and service delivery, operational and organization design?

Then EDGY is for you! Wolfgang and Milan from the Intersection Group will introduce you to the Open Source tool EDGY, designed to connect people and their perspectives, disciplines and conversations.

Instead of complicated models that make people glaze over and look at their phones, EDGY is simple, colorful, easy to use and understand.

This webinar shows how you, as an enterprise or business architect, can apply EDGY to co-create a better enterprise that attracts customers, where employees thrive, and purposes are achieved.

EDGY has been integrated into QualiWare X! Martin from QualiWare will show you how you can work with EDGY within QualiWare X.

Speakers:

  • Milan Guenther, President at Intersection Group
  • Woflgang Goebl, President at Intersection Group
  • Martin Tølle, Business Architect at QualiWare

Moderator:

  • Kevin Bowles, Enterprise Architect at QualiWare

Read more about EDGY and QualiWare: https://www.qualiware.com/edgy

How to utilize AI in EA

AI is a major trend in the field of Enterprise Architecture. At QualiWare, we have been engaged in this realm for quite some time, recognizing the immense value it can bring to our customers.

In our webinar, we will delve into the reasons behind our AI integration into QualiWare X 10.9, how it works and the value it will bring.

Moreover, we will address the challenges and concerns inherent in working with Artificial Intelligence.

Speakers:

  • Russell Blair, Solutions Architect at QualiWare, and
  • Kuno Brodersen, CEO at QualiWare.

Moderator:

  • Kevin Bowles, Product Owner: Enterprise Architecture at QualiWare.

Is your Architecture EDGY?

The webinar shows how you, as an enterprise architect, and your colleagues can create a better enterprise, that attracts customers, where employees thrive, and goals are reached.

In the webinar, we introduce the new enterprise design Open Source tool EDGY, designed to connect people and their perspectives, disciplines, conversations, and negotiations.

Speakers:

  • Milan Guenther, President at Intersection Group
  • Kuno Brodersen, CEO at QualiWare

Moderator:

  • Alexander James Jensen, Enterprise Architect at QualiWare

Read more about EDGY and QualiWare: https://www.qualiware.com/edgy

EDGY

QualiWare supports the EDGY-language created by the Intersection Group.

EDGY introduces a set of reusable Enterprise Elements as a simple but powerful graphical language everybody can understand and relate to. This is a tool that enables designers, architects and change makers to co-design a coherent enterprise by collaboratively exploring the most impactful perspectives and translating between them.

Facet elements:

  • Identity: describing the identifying elements that explain why the enterprise exists and what it seeks to achieve.
  • Architecture: describing the way the enterprise works and how its different parts fit together to deliver.
  • Experience: describing the way the enterprise seeks to appear in and add value to people’s lives.

 

Intersection elements:

  • Product: what we make, offer and deliver for people’s benefit.
  • Brand: our name and what it stands for, our reputation and image.
  • Organisation: a group of people working together to create intended outcomes.

 

Common base elements

  • People: individuals or groups of people relevant for the enterprise.
  • Outcome: a result, goal or change we achieve within our enterprise or its ecosystem.
  • Object: a object or entity that is relevant to our enterprise.
  • Activity: what is being done or going on in our enterprise or its ecosystem

QualiWare support for EDGY in QualiWare 10.9

A whole new set of desktops and dashboards have been developed together witht the Intersection Group, and the underlying metamodel have been updated to the latest version of “EDGY 23: Language Foundations”

The dashboards for the different EDGY maps have been updated to reflect the latest changes in the language, including the relationship between the different EDGY elements.

The EDGY overview desktop gives fast access to most recent changes, your maps, and to-do lists, as well as shows the amount and usage of content in the respository.

In addition, dedicated desktops have been created for each of the 3 facets, and for the base and enterprise level.

EDGY 23 in QualiWare 10.9

QualiWare support for EDGY in QualiWare 10.8

Example of an Enterprise Design desktop in QualiWare 10.8:

 

The EDGY-language has been incorporated in the QualiWare version 10.8 with a whole set of new diagram-templates for each of the EDGY-elements (click on the diagram to see an example):

 

 

 

More information:

Enterprise Design Webinar Series

Our series of four webinars with Milan Guenther is now available for viewing at any time.

The webinars cover these topics:

  • Reinventing IT: How Strategic Enterprise Design Leads Digital Transformation
  • Experience Mapping: Customer Obsession for IT and Digital professionals
  • Enterprise Design Sprints: Empowering your Intrapreneurs for Rapid Innovation
  • Scaling Enterprise Design: a Management Framework for Agile Environments



QualiWare support the EDGY-language created by the Intersection Group.

Read more about how QualiWare supports the EDGY-language here:

3rd Enterprise Design retreat

eda.c and QualiWare team up and arrange the third gathering on Strategic Enterprise Design on March 6-8 in Tel Aviv. Over the course of 3 days at the Nalaga’at Center in Jaffa Port, we will jointly shape the emerging field of Enterprise Design.

In its 3rd edition after Barcelona and Iceland, our event brings together enterprise rebels inside and outside of organizations, and promote a trans-disciplinary exchange on common themes and challenges, tools and techniques, and new thinking. Despite our different backgrounds in design thinking and doing, enterprise and business architecture or analysis, brand, customer and user experience, culture or business transformation and systems thinking, we share a common goal: make enterprises act less awkward and more humane.

After two retreats, three conferences and with a growing community of practitioners, our focus shifts – from understanding what each other is actually doing, to how to achieve impact and collaborate.

See the program and register now.

Webinar on Design Sprints

Watch the recording

On 13 December 3pm CET, Milan Guenther will give a free webinar on Design Sprints and empowering your intrapreneurs for rapid innovation.

milanThe role of a change agent in an enterprise is no easy one. Even with the right entrepreneurial spirits in your teams, politics, silos, established cultural traits and operational challenges get in the way. This has led many enterprises to try a different way. Diving into intrapreneurship programs employing lean and agile approaches, organizations are attempting to catch up with the startup world.

The ideas of working in rapid iterative sprints and avoiding waste have proven vital to overcome the natural inertia of organizations. The Design Sprint was originally developed at Google Ventures with Silicon Valley pioneers. It is a rapid innovation workshop format that aims to tackle problems for teams of any size, validating the challenge and potential solutions before investing into their realization.

Milan Guenther

In this webinar, Milan will introduce Enterprise Design Sprints, a variant of the original tool developed working with the likes of Google, SAP and Toyota. It is designed specifically to get innovation initiatives up to speed, mapping complexity rather than ignoring it, and triggering transformation dynamics. Find out more about the Enterprise Design Sprint methodology and download the free Sprint Canvas here.

Register for the webinar now!

Milan Guenther is managing partner at eda.c, a strategic design consultancy, and Google certified Design Sprint Master. He is the author of INTERSECTION, a book introducing the enterprise design approach for holistic design in complex enterprises, and organising the INTERSECTION conference series about strategic enterprise design. Milan works with organisations like SAP, Boeing, Toyota and the UN, as well as smaller organisations and start-up companies. He has been a designer and architect for over 12 years. Before co-founding eda.c, he worked as a freelance UX strategist and launched a social software startup.