Intersection is an aptly named book, both in its content and the evolving world of leading innovation that it describes. This book explains why new programs like ours are changing the form, content, and purposes for business education. Businesses need to challenge and rethink nearly everything about their processes, procedures, strategies, and cultures in order to successfully lead into the future.
Nathan shedroff, program chair, MBA in Design strategy, Oalifornia college of Art
Intersection is a landmark book on how to design enterprises in todays hyper-connected world. Founded on the relationships between identity, architecture and experiences, Milan Guenthers work explains both the change in mindset and practical approaches that are needed for success. If you are still designing your enterprise from the inside outwards, Intersection will convince you to think again. If you are already designing your enterprise outside-in, use this wonderful book to validate your work.
Chris Potts, author of FruITion and RecrEAtion
If you think that words like cross-channel, ecosystem, or bridge experience have no place in the world of large-scale corporate strategies, this is the book for you.
Intersection reframes enterprise-level design challenges through the lens of complexity, and provides us with a thorough interdisciplinary framework and a holistic approach to Enterprise Information Architecture that bridges business, technology and people into one seamless, dynamic design process. A must read.
Andrea Resmini & Luca Rosati, authors of Pervasive Information Architecture
This innovative book will give you a clear vision of organizations as interaction-driven businesses. Reading Intersection will enlighten you with deep insights into how to manage design in our contemporary world. First, you will understand that all large-scale design projects have an impact on organizational design and need to be managed as such: as Enterprise Design projects.
Second, this book conveyswhat most business people avoid to seethat any enterprise starts as an abstract intangible concept, but will only come to life through tangible signs, things, and places.
Third, you will understand better how designers think in systems, what is holistic thinking, and how design skills are useful for managing the interaction between all stakeholders by aligning identity, architecture, and experience of your enterprise.
Dr. Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Design Management institute Life Fellow / Universit Paris i / Ecole Parsons
Sustainable enterprises increasingly depend on a process incorporating inter-disciplinary knowledge on both strategic and operative levels. This book merges valuable insights from various perspectives into a holistic framework.
Marc Stickdorn & Jakob Schneider, Editors of This is Service Design Thinking
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Introduction
Why Did We Call this Book Intersection?
When Jenifer Niles, then my editor at Morgan Kaufmann, proposed that name, I was intrigued.
This is a book about design, clearly. But it touches many adjacent or related areas, by approaching problems from different perspectives, aiming to bridge viewpoints and concerns, and connecting design to todays complex social ecosystems.
Therefore, the title expresses very well one of the key themes of this publication: looking beyond the immediate task, beyond your own comfort zone and background, beyond a briefing or project scope, and embracing viewpoints and practices other than your own.
Intersection gives you a thinking model, a methodological framework, and a vocabulary to do just that. It is a resource to apply design thinking and practice to challenges you consider relevant and important to tackle. It promotes both a mindset and an approach that enables you to take a step back, and look at the big picture of everything that matters when approaching a difficult design challenge. The face of companies, organizations, public services, and other types of enterprise is changing. Formerly clear lines are fading awaybetween online and offline, internal and external, owned and shared, customer and user, social and business, branding and operations. When thinking holistically about a complex challenge, such distinctions just dont seem to make much sense anymore.
One of the immediate consequences of these shifts is the need to align, bridge and connect; more and more professionals are calling themselves architects, designers, or consultants. If you are among those, you inevitably face the challenge of transforming ecosystems, regardless of your particular background, focus area, or level in an organization. Such systemic challenges go well beyond the problems of designing products, web sites, or services in isolation.