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The popular Business Model Canvas (BMC) from 2005 by Alexander Osterwalder et al. offers a basic tool for discussing business models. It is often used in workshops where it provides simplicity for people who do not typically develop business models. The simplicity comes with a price; it is easy to fall off the canvas when discussing aspects related...

The EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a breakthrough program to promote sustainability, transparency, and circularity in the product lifecycle—it's more than just another regulatory mandate. By enabling the interchange of sustainability information across value chains, the DPP is positioned to play a crucial role in enabling creative approaches ...

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is an enabler for the greeing of Europe. The DPP provides a crucial building block for transparent product and supply chains. I you want to know more then let us know.

Digitaliseringen i offentlig offentlig sektor är viktig men har fortfarande många utmaningar att ta sig igenom eller runt.En av dom är digital samverkan genom säkert och tillitsfullt utbyte av digitala meddelanden. Till exempel för att ersätta faxen. I en serie artiklar kommer jag att berätta om ett nytt medel för digital samverkan - PLATTFORMEN FÖ...

Detta är en platshållare för en framtida artikel om hur SGSI, Plattformen för eDelivery och SDK-federationen passar ihop. Teaser:De tre kompletterar varandra, dvs de ersätter inte varandra. Den enklaste integrationen mellan de tre är att skapa an ny SGS-federation med speciella regler för styrning och ledning, deltagande, säkerhet och tillit, trans...

Innehållsförteckning Hur en plattform som STUDMIG är uppbyggd och varför?Hur skapas nyttor skapas och var det det finns nätverkseffekter, för vem?Hur kan ledtider signifikant förkortas för utveckling och införande av samverkansuppdrag?Vad är skillnaden mellan en Plattform, Infrastruktur, Byggblock och Specifikation.Vad är nödvändig variation och on...

A Learning perspective of Digital Transformations provides a pedagogical tool for discussions about the nature of digital transformation projects. However, many projects include Digitisation, Digitisation, and Digital Transformation elements. This perspective brings to the surface focused definitions of related words and phrases such as digitisatio...

Have you encountered this situation? When someone makes a presentation or gives you a model, you simply cannot understand what to do with it. Unfortunately, it is quite common, especially when the producer uses a well-defined method. Here the method provides the answers even before the questions are asked.It is also common that the producer really ...

Some say, they exist in documents, specifications or plans. Some say, they exist out there in the real world. Others say no, one cannot find them in the wild. This is a topic that Interweaving often works with. Instead of accepting unnecessary and often disrupting opposing points of views, Interweaving shift focus from "either/or" to "and" through ...

Well, the answer typically depends on who is asked since there are many views and positioning of others. Amongst the opinionated, we find the following roles or professions. • Business executives, managers, and specialists • Designers • Business Designers • Service Designers • Business Architects (BA • Enterprise Architects (EA) ⁃ System Architect,...

The Design Thinking approach (DT) to design, innovation, and problem-solving has been around for a long time in the design community. DT is gaining traction in new fields, such as developing societies, strategies, and businesses. Non-designers have also started to embrace DT. The wider applications and experiences gained from using Design Thinking ...

In interweaved Enterprise Architecture (iEA) we encourage the understanding and balanced accommodations between the participating stakeholders and architects and the work they do with others. They all have to listen to each other. If stakeholders see little use for architectural products, the architects should listen to why, and stakeholders should...

Diamond (DDD) is started as introduced in "What If We Redesign The (Double) Design Diamond To Become Interweaved?" What if we redesign the Design Diamond? The goal is to create new knowledge and explore how essential aspects of Design can be represented in a diamond form. The resulting interweaved Design Diamond (iDD) provides an explanatory schema...

The seed: The 'Double Design Diamond" (DDD) is a popular way to describe and orient what design is and how design is done. One of the most important features of the DDD is that it is visually appealing and is used as a baseline for describing a design process. The British Design Council even claims it is universally accepted, Design Council. But is...

Power up your designs using the Affordance Canvas to make the most of the possibilities in the age of crisis and Corona. The Affordance Canvas results from the effort to enrich design thinking using Interweaving. How:- After the team has formulated a problem point-of-view and found a solution, the team turns around and explores the affordance of th...

A debate is raging about whether design thinking is the same as design. A quick overview of the field reveals quite a few popular design and service thinking approaches that, to a degree, are similar. They all present a graphical overview of a simple method with 5-8 steps, including problem-finding and solution creation. But is that all there is? I...

There is an interesting relationship between design and dance. In dance, beginners start out by learning basic patterns. Just as is the case with design thinking and service design, where the simple and appealing 5, 6 or 7-step processes from books, universities and famous companies lure participants into enjoying design. Both beginner dancers and ...

Some think there is only one way to architect or interweave. This is a common misconception! There are many ways, approaches, styles, manners, and theories that architects choose for their practices. Art, craft, and science are three of many elements that can describe an architect's style. Often architects choose a balance between them in their pra...

It is rather luxurious to engage in unlearning the not-so-useful and relearning new things. The inspiring books by Barry O Reilly and Nassim Nicholas Taleb are on my desk.In the books, one aspect struck me early, the proven negative effects of rigid mental models and defensive attitudes towards them. For me, practising design thinking is quite libe...