Overview

Cross domain relationships in Orthogramic provide the connective tissue between business architecture domains. They define how different types of architectural elements influence, depend on, or support each other, allowing for meaningful insights, traceability, and alignment across the organisation.

These relationships are surfaced throughout the platform and are used for:

• Enabling strategic alignment checks

• Supporting recommendation logic

• Facilitating visualisation of dependency chains in mindmaps

• Highlighting misalignment or duplication across domains

The relationships are derived directly from the Orthogramic Metamodel and support automatic inference of organisational structure, responsibility, and impact.

Relationship types

Each cross domain relationship is defined by:

• Source domain (e.g. Strategy)

• Target domain (e.g. Capabilities)

• Relationship type (e.g. influences, enables, supports)

• Directionality (uni- or bi-directional)

Examples:

• Strategy → Capabilities (influences)

• Capabilities → Value Stream (enables)

• Value Stream → Initiative (delivers)

• Stakeholders → Services (owns)

• Policy → Information (governs)

These are maintained within the metamodel and visualised within Orthogramic Insights to support exploration and navigation.

Relationship type list

Node	Role type
	consuming
	supported
	governing
	constrains
	enables
	mitigates
	monitors
	drives_demand
	responds_to
	aligns_with
	oversight_of
	accountable_to
	forecasts_for
	funds
	quantifies
	reports_on

Use in document analysis

When documents are parsed, relationships between domains are inferred based on sentence structure, contextual clues, and declared associations (e.g. “This initiative improves customer engagement by enhancing CRM capabilities”).

These inferred relationships are validated and used to:

• Detect missing or weakly defined connections

• Assess quality and completeness of a document

• Propose recommendations to improve alignment

Use in mindmaps

Cross domain relationships are rendered in mindmaps to:

• Show how elements from different domains relate visually

• Allow users to follow logical chains from Strategy through to Initiatives and Performance

• Enable dynamic exploration of organisational alignment

Use in recommendations

Orthogramic uses cross domain relationships to:

• Identify capability gaps blocking strategic goals

• Recommend services or stakeholders needed for an initiative

• Highlight policies or information dependencies that require attention

Extensibility

New relationship types can be added over time as the metamodel evolves. User feedback and document analysis are both sources for suggesting and validating additional relationship types.

Related pages

• Inter-unit domain relationship