Orthogramic Metamodel

Introduction

Business architecture has traditionally been seen as a discipline focused on mapping capabilities, aligning strategies, and describing organisational structures. While valuable, this perspective often treats architecture as a static representation—useful for planning, but disconnected from daily operations and responsiveness to change.

The Orthogramic Metamodel redefines business architecture as a dynamic, organisation-wide system of understanding, decision-making, and alignment. It moves beyond static models and narrow scopes, embedding performance, policy, technology, people, and strategic change directly into the structure of architecture itself. This enables organisations to model not just what they do, but why, how, for whom, and with what effect.

At its core, the Orthogramic Metamodel introduces an extensible set of structured domains—each defined using schema-first design—to represent a comprehensive view of how an organisation functions and adapts. These domains include traditional areas such as Strategy, Capabilities, and Value Streams, but are expanded to encompass areas often overlooked in conventional frameworks, such as Customer, People, Market, Sustainability, Innovation, and Social Change.

These domains are interlinked using explicitly defined relationships, allowing for a multi-dimensional view of an organisation that is traceable, scalable, and designed for real-time relevance. This positions business architecture not as an artefact of strategy, but as an enabler of execution.

By enabling data-driven modelling, shared semantics, and responsive change structures, the Orthogramic Metamodel elevates business architecture from a documentation exercise to an operating model for strategy-aligned execution and transformation.

Open source manifesto

The https://guide.user.orthogramic.com/wiki/spaces/OM/pages/291799095 outlines our commitment to transparency, interoperability, and community stewardship. The model is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence, with contributions welcomed via documented guidelines.