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Introduction
Orthogramic Business Architecture Domains Guide. This guide provides a detailed overview of the various business architecture domains supported by Orthogramic. These domains are essential for developing strategic plans, managing organizational policies, defining capabilities, optimizing value streams, engaging stakeholders, managing initiatives, overseeing product development, and tracking performance. By understanding and utilizing these domains, users can enhance organizational alignment, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Business Architecture Domains
Strategies
The Strategies feature allows users to develop and document strategic plans, set objectives, key activities, and metrics to measure success. This ensures that strategies are aligned with organizational goals and drive desired outcomes.
Policies
The Policies feature enables users to document and manage organizational policies, define their purpose, requirements, and compliance metrics. This ensures that all policies are up-to-date and adhered to across the organization.
Capabilities
The Capabilities feature outlines the various functional and technical capabilities within the organization. It provides a detailed hierarchy of capabilities, allowing users to map out strengths and areas for improvement.
Value Streams
The Value Streams feature helps users understand and optimize the flow of value within the organization. By defining stages, value items, and criteria for each stage, users can align value streams with organizational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Stakeholders
The Stakeholders feature provides The Orthogramic Metamodel has been made open source under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, allowing the business architecture community to access, adapt, and extend its structure. This section describes how the metamodel is implemented within the Orthogramic app, providing a framework for mapping business strategies, capabilities, value streams, and stakeholders in a unified business architecture view.
The Orthogramic Metamodel
For documentation about the Orthogramic Metamodel, see: https://orthogramic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OM
Business Domains in the Orthogramic app
The domain pages provide insights into various critical aspects of an organization's business architecture. They are structured to offer detailed descriptions, purposes, and functionalities of each business architecture domain, enabling a thorough understanding and effective management of strategic and operational elements.
Organization
Outlines the organizational structure, including key units and their roles in supporting business architecture. See: Organization
Stakeholder
Provides a comprehensive view of all relevant stakeholders, detailing their roles, responsibilities, and interests . This ensures to ensure effective communication and engagement strategies. See: Stakeholder
Initiatives
The Initiatives feature allows users to outline and manage various programs and projects within the organization. Users can define goals, track progress, allocate resources, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
Products
The Products feature provides detailed information about the organization's offerings, including associated programs and projects. It helps manage product lifecycles to ensure they meet organizational standards and customer needs.
Performance
The Performance feature provides tools for tracking and analyzing performance metrics. Users can define KPIs, monitor progress towards goals, and identify areas needing improvement.
Getting Started
To begin utilizing the business architecture domains within Orthogramic, navigate to the relevant domain based on your needs. This guide will assist you in understanding the purpose and application of each domain, ensuring that your business processes support your strategic objectives and enhance overall organizational effectiveness.
By following the instructions and best practices outlined in this guide, users can effectively manage and integrate critical business processes within Orthogramic, supporting informed decision-making and operational efficiency.
Business Architecture Domains
Strategies
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Feature Description: The Strategies feature allows users to develop and document strategic plans. This includes setting objectives, key activities, and metrics to measure success. Users can align strategies with organisational goals and ensure they drive desired outcomes.
Usage:
Develop and document strategic plans.
Define objectives and key activities.
Measure success with defined metrics.
Policies
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Strategy
This page outlines the organization's strategic plans, objectives, key activities, and success metrics. It ensures that strategies are well-defined and aligned with organizational goals. See: Strategy
Capability
Provides a hierarchy and detailed descriptions of the organization's functional and technical capabilities, highlighting areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. See: Capabilities
Product
Provides an overview of the organization's products, including their development stages, associated programs, and projects. See: Products
Service
Provides and overview of the organization’s services, including their development stages, associated programs, and projects. See Services
Information
Describes the structure and flow of information within the organization, including data models and information flow diagrams. See: Information
Performance
Tracks and analyzes performance metrics, defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor progress towards organizational goals. See: Performance
Initiatives
Outlines various programs and projects, defining goals, objectives, and progress tracking to ensure alignment with strategic goals. See: Initiatives
Policy
This section covers organizational policies, including their purpose, requirements, and compliance metrics for each policy. Users can ensure that all . It ensures that policies are up-to-date and adhered to across the organisationorganization. UsageSee:
Document and manage organisational policies.
Define policy requirements and compliance metrics.
Ensure adherence to policies.
Capabilities
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Feature Description: The Capabilities feature outlines the various functional and technical capabilities within the organisation. This includes a detailed hierarchy of capabilities, allowing users to map out and understand the organisation’s strengths and areas for improvement.
Usage:
Define and categorise organisational capabilities.
Map capabilities to strategic goals and initiatives.
Identify gaps and areas for improvement.
Value Streams
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Feature Description: The Value Streams feature helps users understand and optimise Policy
Value Stream
Focuses on the flow of value within the organisation. This includes organization, defining stages, value items, and the criteria for each stage . Users can align value streams with organisational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Usage:
Define and manage value streams.
Align value streams with organisational processes.
Optimise the flow of value for efficiency.
Stakeholders
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Feature Description: The Stakeholders feature in the Orthogramic app provides a comprehensive view of all relevant stakeholders for an organisation. This includes internal and external parties, detailing their roles, responsibilities, and interests. Users can access and manage stakeholder information to ensure effective communication and engagement strategies.
Usage:
Identify and categorise stakeholders.
Understand stakeholder roles and interests.
Plan and execute stakeholder engagement strategies.
Initiatives
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Feature Description: The Initiatives feature allows users to outline and manage various programs and projects within the organisation. This includes the ability to define goals, objectives, and detailed project descriptions. Users can track progress, allocate resources, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
Usage:
Create and manage organisational initiatives.
Define programs and projects with specific objectives.
Monitor progress and resource allocation.
Products
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Feature Description: The Products feature provides a detailed overview of the organisation’s offerings. This includes information about each product, its associated programs, and project descriptions. Users can manage product lifecycles and ensure they meet the organisation’s standards and customer needs.
Usage:
List and describe organisational products.
Associate products with relevant programs and projects.
Manage product development and lifecycle.
Performance
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Feature Description: The Performance feature provides tools for tracking and analysing various performance metrics. Users can define key performance indicators (KPIs) and monitor progress towards organisational goals. This feature helps in identifying areas of excellence and those needing improvement.
Usage:
Define and monitor performance metrics.
Track progress towards goals.
Identify and address areas needing improvement.
Information
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See: Value stream