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Introduction
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The strategic response model in the Orthogramic Metamodel provides a structured, traceable way to represent how an organisation prepares for and reacts to specific events or conditions—referred to as triggers. These may be internal or external in origin and include changes such as new legislation, technological shifts, workforce disruptions, or emerging stakeholder expectations.
By defining scenarios through the lens of business architecture domains, the strategic response model enables organisations to systematically assess the impact of a trigger across capabilities, value streams, services, policies, information assets, and stakeholders. It supports alignment of initiatives with strategic objectives and helps clarify the roles of organisation units in responding to change.
This composable artefact strengthens enterprise resilience, supports compliance, and informs forward planning by establishing a consistent format for understanding and managing business scenarios.
Structure of the artefact
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Strategic response model trigger | A defined external or internal event. Example: Proposed national safety legislation for hazardous freight. |
Impacted strategic drivers | One or more strategic objectives tagged as relevant to the trigger. |
Key organisation units | Units tagged as responsible, dependent, or impacted based on capability and service roles. |
Affected capabilities | Filtered based on alignment with strategic objectives or dependency relationships. |
Service dependencies | Services required to respond to or deliver the desired outcome of the scenario. |
Value streams engaged | End-to-end business processes likely to be activated or altered. |
Information requirements | Information assets needed to inform decisions or satisfy compliance. |
Stakeholders | Primary stakeholders affected, mapped to expectations, engagement plans, or risks. |
Policies and compliance | Policies that apply or must be created/updated. |
Performance measures | KPIs that will demonstrate scenario readiness or success. |
Initiative/program links | Existing or proposed initiatives addressing the scenario. |
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To support structured scenario development, the Orthogramic Metamodel offers a growing catalogue of predefined triggers. Each trigger can be used to initiate a scenario composite artefact and is tagged with relevant business architecture domains.
Trigger Category | Example Triggers |
Regulatory or compliance | New legislation, compliance audit mandate, data sovereignty changes |
Technological change | AI rollout, cybersecurity breach, platform deprecation |
Environmental & safety | Natural disaster preparedness, climate risk disclosures, workplace injury reform |
Operational transformation | Business process outsourcing, shared services implementation, lean redesign |
Strategic re-alignment | Mergers and acquisitions, board-level strategic pivot, budget realignment |
Customer & stakeholder | Community expectations shift, digital service demand surge, key account loss |
Workforce & skills | Critical skill shortage, union action, remote work policy adoption |
Performance response | KPI threshold breach, repeated incident occurrence, audit fail |
Political or social | Public inquiry, ministerial intervention, social licence erosion |
Innovation-led opportunity | Grant funding availability, pilot program success, ecosystem partnership offer |
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