In the Orthogramic Metamodel, cross-domain relationships articulate the interactions between elements across distinct business architecture domains. These relationships are pivotal for understanding how components such as strategies, capabilities, value streams, and policies interconnect, thereby enabling a cohesive and comprehensive view of the enterprise.insights.orthogramic.com
By delineating these interdependencies, cross-domain relationships facilitate strategic alignment, operational efficiency, and informed decision-making. They serve as the connective tissue that binds various domains, ensuring that changes or developments in one area are appropriately reflected and managed across others.
This section provides a structured overview of the defined cross-domain relationships within the Orthogramic Metamodel. It supports practitioners in mapping and analysing the complex web of interactions that underpin organisational performance and strategic execution.
purchases: Indicates customer segments purchase products
influences: Shows how market elements influence other domains
targets: Indicates targeting relationships
requires: Shows dependencies on other domain elements
supports: Indicates supportive relationships
uses: Shows utilization of other domain elements
enables: Indicates enabling relationships
delivers: Shows delivery relationships
depends_on: Indicates dependency relationships
contributes_to: Shows contribution relationships
validates: Indicates validation relationships
aligns_with: Shows alignment with other elements
governed_by: Indicates governance relationships
secured_by: Shows security relationships
measured_by: Indicates measurement relationships
enhanced_by: Shows enhancement relationships
monitors: Indicates monitoring relationships
tracks: Shows tracking relationships
informs: Indicates information flow
guides: Shows guidance relationships
interacts_with: Indicates interaction relationships
analyzes: Shows analysis relationships
optimizes: Indicates optimization relationships
relates_to: Shows general relationships
affects: Indicates effect relationships
impacts: Shows impact relationships
funds: Financial support or funding for other elements.
impacts: Influence or affect other domain elements through finance.
drives: Propel or stimulate activity in another domain.
enables: Make possible through financial or resource backing.
allocates_to: Assign financial resources to organisational units or initiatives.
influences: Affect direction or outcomes indirectly.
constrains: Limit options or actions due to financial considerations.
derives_from: Originate as a result of another element.