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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...

Boxology, frames the idea of the Box that represents an important Mockafjong, which is a beautiful thingymajig. It is something wondrous, fascinating and important to talk about. Boxology was created as a result of ironical and empirical research. Boxology is often used and considered important in practices such as management, business analysis, bu...

An article in Seedmagazine made me think about an important aspect of Interweaving and Architecting practices that work with communities, enterprises, buildings, or systems. An analogy came into mind, the consideration (the careful thoughts) of Uniformity - Diversity. This particular consideration is bifocal and is part of the foundational knowledg...

A Mockafjong is a beautiful thingymajig. It is something wondrous, fascinating and important to talk about. When you find yourself in discussions where you wonder what you really are talking about. Try to replace the key "word" used to refer to the centre of the discussion with "Mockafjong". Try replacing "digital transformation" or "capability" wi...

The triangulation techniques provide an important instrument that can be used to increase the quality, credibility, validity, and reliability of data, findings, project results, decision-making material, etc. By looking at situations or subject matter from different perspectives, by independent viewers, using complementary methods and techniques, i...

The book "The NEO-Generalist" is a fascinating read, with a surprising connection to Interweaving. It turns out that neo-generalists would make excellent Interweavers with their mindsets. A few examples quotes from the book "The NEO-Generalist", by Kenneth Mikkelsen, Richard Martin, 2016, to illustrates the point. "A neo-generalist is a serial spec...