The Orthogramic Metamodel has been designed as a comprehensive foundation for modelling an organisation's business architecture. It already supports core domains and structured relationships enabling strategic alignment, performance monitoring, and stakeholder engagement. This document evaluates whether the current metamodel requires extension to support the full spectrum of business architecture modes of operation, as practised by experienced business architects.
Mode | Support Level | Current Implementation | Recommendations |
|---|---|---|---|
Creating an organisational perspective | Fully Supported | Organisation domain, Organisation Units, and inter-unit relationships | None needed |
Driving a strategic intention | Fully Supported | Strategy, Initiatives (Programs and Projects), and their traceability to Capabilities, Stakeholders, and Performance | None needed |
Creating strategic response models | Fully Supported | Strategic Response Model, including Triggers, Rationales, and Responses | None needed |
Providing an oversight perspective | Fully Supported | Stakeholder extensions (oversight roles), | None needed |
Capability maturity and gap analysis | Partially Supported | Capabilities domain includes | Add fields for |
Portfolio rationalisation and alignment | Partially Supported | Initiatives and their links to Capabilities and Strategy | Add Portfolio as a new domain or sub-element of Initiatives, including scoring and prioritisation attributes |
Reference model tailoring and governance setup | Limited Support | Policy and Organisation domains can capture governance rules | Extend Policy domain with sub-elements for |
Transformation roadmap development | Partially Supported | Initiatives and Programs imply time-based change | Add |
Stakeholder influence and communication enablement | Fully Supported | Stakeholder domain includes | None needed |
Design and validation of operating models | Partially Supported | Organisation, Capability, and Value Stream domains offer some structure | Introduce |