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Various Business Architecture Domain Attributes, Elements and Sub-Elements define and support an organization's strategic and operational framework. By detailing key elements such as strategies, policies, capabilities, value streams, and stakeholder requirements, this guide aims to enhance your ability to align business activities with organizational goals and improve overall performance.
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Business Architecture Domains, Domain entities, Attributes, Elements and Sub-Elements
In Orthogramic, the relationship between Domains, Attributes, Elements, and Sub-Elements is structured to provide a clear and organized view of your business architecture. This hierarchy enables a comprehensive breakdown of capabilities and facilitates a detailed analysis, allowing for a precise alignment of strategies, processes, and objectives.
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Domains represent the highest level of classification within the business architecture framework. Each Domain encompasses a specific area of the business, such as Strategy, Capabilities, Value Streams, Policy, Organization, Information, or Performance. Domains serve as containers for all relevant information and activities related to that aspect of the business. They are the foundational pillars that organize and categorize the business’s critical components.
Domain entity
A domain entity is a discrete, identifiable unit of structured information that represents a meaningful concept within a specific business architecture domain. Each domain entity—such as a capability, strategy, product, value stream, policy, or stakeholder—encapsulates key attributes, relationships, and sub-elements relevant to that domain. Domain entities serve as the foundational building blocks for modelling how an organisation functions, plans, and delivers value.
Attributes
Attributes provide context and additional descriptive information within a Domain. These characteristics help to define and distinguish one Element from another. For example, in a Capability Domain, Attributes may include the complexity level, strategic importance, associated stakeholders, and resource requirements. Attributes ensure that each Element has a unique identity and purpose, adding depth to the analysis.
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Some Domains contain multiple Elements and their Sub-Elements, while others like Policy only contain Attributes.
Domain | Domain Elements |
Strategy | Business Objective |
Capability |
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Product |
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Service |
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Stakeholder | Stakeholder Requirement |
Initiative |
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Performance | KPI (Key Performance Indicator) |
Information | Information Component |
Organization | Organization unit |
Element business rules
Unlike Capabilities, Stakeholders, Products, Services, Information and Performance domains who’s elements are always within the same organization unit, the Initiatives and Value Streams domains can have elements split to other organization units.
Initiatives
Initiative with Programs and Projects in the sameorganization unit
Initiative with Programs and without Projects in the sameorganization unit
Initiative without Programs and without Projects in the sameorganization unit
A Program with Projects in the same organization unit
A Program without projects in the same organization unit
A Project in an organization unit
Value Streams
A Value Stream with Value Stream Stages in the same organization unit
A Value Stream in an organization unit
Capabilities
A Capability has only be one Capability function but there can be multiple Capability Components and Processes.