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Strategic intents define proactive, forward-looking initiatives that drive organisational change. Unlike reactive triggers, they represent deliberate choices to pursue innovation, growth, efficiency, or strategic advantage. They provide essential direction and context to the response model, influencing what kinds of actions are prioritised. Intents ensure that each response is aligned to broader organisational ambition. Intents may span multiple domains and units, and the Strategic Response Model explicitly references them to maintain strategic alignment.
Orthogramic context:
In the Orthogramic Metamodel, strategic intent is implicitly expressed through high-level strategies and their alignment with stakeholder needs, market forces, and policy obligations. It anchors the Strategy domain (e.g. long-term goals, key activities, and business objectives) and informs the Strategic Response Model, which maps triggers and rationale to structured responses such as policy changes or new initiatives.
Characteristics:
Long-term and directional rather than tactical
Anchored in the organisation’s mission and vision
Translated into measurable strategies and objectives
Reinforced through cross-domain alignment (e.g. with Capabilities, Initiatives, and Performance)
Example:
An agency’s strategic intent might be “to achieve zero rail-related fatalities within a decade”, which would cascade into initiatives, stakeholder engagement plans, technological investments, and policy shifts—all modelled and aligned in Orthogramic.
Components of the Strategic Response Model
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