Top ten outdated BIZBOK practices

1 Manual and ad-hoc documentation

BIZBOK often relies on handcrafted artefacts created inconsistently across organisations. Orthogramic standardises documentation through structured schemas, enabling consistency, scalability, and automation.

2 Selective domain focus

Practitioners historically prioritised a few domains, such as capabilities and value streams. Orthogramic requires comprehensive documentation across all business architecture domains to achieve a true whole-of-organisation view.

3 Static capability maps

Capability maps are often created as static diagrams with limited integration to other business artefacts. In Orthogramic, capabilities are dynamically connected to strategies, processes, stakeholders, policies, and performance indicators through live relationships.

4 Capability decomposition as primary structure

BIZBOK’s emphasis on multi-level capability decomposition introduces artificial rigidity. Orthogramic instead anchors business architecture around organisational structures and real-world operational ownership.

5 Manual traceability efforts

Traceability between domains and artefacts is a manual, error-prone process. Orthogramic automates traceability across strategies, capabilities, initiatives, information, and stakeholders based on a unified metamodel.

6 Siloed stakeholder analysis

Stakeholder maps are often produced as stand-alone artefacts. In Orthogramic, stakeholders are fully integrated with strategies, initiatives, value streams, and organisational structures to reflect influence and engagement paths in real-time.

7 Limited information domain integration

BIZBOK treats information as a supplementary concern. Orthogramic positions information as a core domain, designed to connect seamlessly with capabilities, services, and organisational processes, and capable of integrating federated data sources like Atlan and Zetaris.

8 Reliance on point-in-time assessments

Traditional business architecture artefacts often represent a snapshot rather than a living model. Orthogramic creates an ongoing, dynamically updated organisational model with built-in governance and change tracking.

9 Peripheral approach to policy and performance

Policy and performance are treated as external considerations in many BIZBOK practices. Orthogramic embeds these as first-class domains, allowing real-time analysis of how policies govern capabilities and how performance metrics track strategic execution.

10 Underutilisation of automation and analytics

BIZBOK-era practices often miss opportunities for real-time insight. Orthogramic leverages automation, analytics, and AI to assess completeness, relevance, quality, and strategic alignment across the entire body of business architecture documentation.