Adam Zeiner

Content Ecosystem Mapping Articles and Resources

For those that aren’t familiar, a boundary object is an artefact (thing, concept, discourse, process, etc.) that can hold a diversity of incomplete perspectives and enable communication and collaboration amongst those stakeholders despite that incompleteness.

‘Systems’ and ‘systemic’ have always been tricky words, as they mean different things to different people. Some people immediately think of technical systems (like airport control), some social systems (like a family unit), some natural systems (like a forest), and some dynamic systems (like a multiple cause diagram for obesity). In my last job,... See more

2. Spotting partnership opportunities

The impact of these influences remains today. It shows up in the language of business, for example – think of all the business jargon that clearly has military roots. [...] Even my own business school was organized into cohorts—a structure modeled after the Roman legions.

Depending on the use case you will scope your stakeholder map differently but generally having an ecosystem map offers three important benefits:

I like the concepts “strategy” and “tactics” to capture what these two sides of design are about. As far as I can tell this appears to be the choice of words that professional designers and design leaders use.