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Triggers
Triggers initiate the Strategic Response Model by representing a change in context, observationidentifying changes, observations, or external condition that warrants attention. Each Trigger may lead to one or more Rationales, each providing a specific justification for change. Triggers ensure that organisational decisions are not made opportunities that warrant a strategic or operational response. Each trigger represents a catalyst—whether anticipated or unanticipated—that compels the organisation to act.
Triggers serve as the evidentiary foundation for change, ensuring that strategic initiatives and responses are not conceived in a vacuum, but are grounded in evidence or obligation. See: https://orthogramic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OM/pages/286228485 A trigger is defined as a catalyst event—internal or external—that compels an organisation to adapt. It is not a standalone structural element but a contextual stimulus that prompts changes to strategy, activates capabilities, or demands cross-functional coordination. Triggers may include legislative changes, customer demands, or performance breaches.real-world shifts, obligations, or forward-looking insights.
Expanded use: proactive strategic initiatives
Tiggers are not only focused on reactive responses to external or internal conditions—such as regulatory changes, stakeholder demands, or performance shortfalls. However, the Orthogramic Metamodel also supports proactive triggers that signal intentional strategic opportunities rather than external pressures.
These proactive triggers may arise from deliberate internal planning, capability reviews, or innovation roadmaps, and are used to initiate responses even in the absence of external drivers. This positions the trigger taxonomy as a tool for both risk response and opportunity-led transformation.
Examples include:
Identifying a market expansion initiative in response to positive trend analysis
Launching a strategic repositioning program based on foresight and scenario modelling
Enhancing core capabilities to support long-term digital transformation objectives
By supporting anticipatory time horizons and strategic planning origins, the model enables the capture and classification of future-oriented thinking and long-range planning decisions.
Trigger taxonomy
Orthogramic triggers follow a structured taxonomy to ensure clarity, governance, and analytics across strategic responses.
Each trigger includes:
Primary category – broad context for the trigger (e.g. Regulatory compliance, Strategic opportunity)
Subcategory – specific focus within the category (e.g. Innovation initiative, Market expansion)
Origin – where the trigger comes from (Internal, External, Strategic planning, Hybrid)
Time horizon – the timeframe of the trigger (Immediate, Short term, Long term, Anticipatory)
Impact level – estimated organisational significance
This classification enables:
Proactive identification of high-value opportunities
Consistent linkage to rationales and strategic responses
Improved transparency across strategic planning cycles
Enhanced auditability and traceability of decisions
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Example
Trigger | Strategic Opportunity – Capability Enhancement |
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Description | Business planning process identifies need for workforce upskilling in AI analytics |
Origin | Strategic planning |
Time horizon | Anticipatory |
Impact level | High |
Linked rationale | To prepare the organisation for competitive positioning in data-driven decision making |
Trigger Taxonomy
Triggers in the Orthogramic Metamodel follow a standardized classification system that enables consistent categorization, improved searchability, and enhanced analytics. Each trigger is classified according to:
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Triggers can lead to multiple Rationales. Each Rationale references the originating trigger and justifies a different response path. This many-to-one structure allows a single trigger to influence several domains. See: Rationale
Example
See https://orthogramic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OM/pages/291242002 for reference cases.
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See: https://github.com/Orthogramic/Orthogramic_Metamodel
Schema properties
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| string (uuid) | Yes | Unique identifier for the trigger |
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| string | Yes | Short, human-readable name of the trigger |
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| string | No | Expanded explanation of the trigger's relevance |
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| string (enum) | Yes | Primary classification of trigger context |
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| string | No | More specific classification within the primary category |
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| string (enum) | Yes | Whether the trigger originates from inside or outside the organisation |
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| string (enum) | No | The temporal nature of the trigger |
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| string (enum) | No | The potential significance of the trigger |
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| string (enum) | No | The current status in the lifecycle of the trigger |
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| string (date) | No | Date when the trigger was identified |
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| string (date) | No | Expected end of relevance for this trigger |
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| string | No | Reference to source document or authority identifying the trigger |
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| array of uuid | No | References to other related triggers |
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| array of uuid | No | References to related Strategic Response artefacts |
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