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The Orthogramic User types provides a detailed overview of the various user roles within Orthogramic and their primary drivers. Understanding these user types is essential for effectively managing and aligning organizational functions with strategic objectives. Each user type plays a critical role in ensuring that the organization operates efficiently and meets its goals.
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User Types and the Self-Service Approach Orthogramic’s user types are designed to support a self-service approach, enabling not just business architects but also general business users to engage with business architecture insights. Each user type is tailored to provide the right level of access, tools, and guidance needed for their specific roles. This means that non-architect users—such as product managers, talent acquisition staff, or operations leaders—can navigate the platform intuitively, contributing to and benefiting from business architecture without needing specialized expertise. By offering role-based features and recommendations, Orthogramic empowers users across various functions to take an active role in shaping the organization’s architecture. This self-service capability fosters a collaborative environment where business architecture becomes accessible and actionable for everyone involved in driving business outcomes. |
Key Features
User Role Definitions: Detailed descriptions of each standard user role and their main objectives.
Role-Specific Drivers: Key drivers and goals associated with each user type to ensure alignment with organizational strategies.
Best Practices: Tips for effectively assigning and managing user roles to optimize system interactions and achieve business objectives.
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Chief Operating Officer (COO)
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Operational efficiency
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Cost management
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Key Responsibilities:
Oversee the execution of the organization’s business strategies.
Ensure operational excellence and alignment of business units.
Monitor and optimize workflows, resource allocation, and strategic initiatives.
How Orthogramic Helps: Orthogramic provides COOs with a cross-functional view of business capabilities and performance data. They can easily track strategic initiatives, identify gaps in operational efficiency, and ensure that the organization is moving in alignment with overarching business goals. Orthogramic’s dashboards allow them to monitor key operational KPIs and make data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
Primary Benefits:
Improved operational efficiency through a clear view of value streams.
Alignment of operational activities with strategic business goals.
Better resource allocation by tracking initiatives in real time.
Strategic Planner
Strategic Alignment: Strategists are focused on ensuring that the organization’s initiatives align with long-term goals. Orthogramic allows them to map strategic objectives to capabilities, value streams, and other business architecture domains.
Evaluating Initiatives: Using Orthogramic, strategists can assess whether ongoing and proposed initiatives are delivering value and contributing to the broader strategy. The platform’s analytics provide insights into the effectiveness of each project.
Adapting to Market Trends: Strategists leverage the platform to identify market changes and ensure that organizational strategy remains agile and adaptable to external influences.
Scenario Planning: Orthogramic enables strategists to simulate different business scenarios, helping them to plan for potential market shifts and assess the strategic impact of various decisions.
Monitoring KPIs: By tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) linked to strategic initiatives, strategists can measure success and make informed adjustments to their approach.
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High-Level Strategy: Executives use Orthogramic to ensure that the organization’s business architecture supports its overall strategy, providing a holistic view of how different parts of the business are performing.
Data-Driven Decision Making: With Orthogramic’s insights, executives can make informed, data-driven decisions about where to invest resources and how to steer the company towards long-term success.
Performance Management: Orthogramic helps executives track organizational performance across departments, identifying high-performing areas as well as those in need of improvement.
Change Management: Executives use Orthogramic to manage and lead organizational change, ensuring that all transformations are aligned with strategic goals.
Collaboration and Communication: Orthogramic enables executives to facilitate communication between different departments, ensuring that everyone is aligned on strategic objectives and working towards the same goals.
Enterprise Architect
Architecture compliance rate
IT cost optimization
Time-to-market for IT solutions
Product Managers
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Product lifecycle management
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Market competitiveness
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Key Responsibilities:
Design and oversee the IT architecture that supports the organization.
Align technology infrastructure with business goals.
Identify gaps in current systems and recommend enhancements
How Orthogramic Helps: Orthogramic allows Enterprise Architects to map the organization’s business capabilities and value streams. They can visualize the entire architecture, pinpoint areas where technology gaps affect business operations, and propose solutions to close those gaps. The tool supports scenario planning, helping them assess the impact of new technologies on the existing architecture and business strategies.
Primary Benefits:
Better alignment between IT architecture and business strategy.
Visualization of capabilities and value streams to identify technology gaps.
Enhanced ability to plan for future technological implementations.
Product Managers
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee product lifecycle from ideation to launch.
Align product development with business strategy.
Manage cross-functional teams to deliver successful products.
How Orthogramic Helps: For Product Managers, Orthogramic offers insights into how product development aligns with overall business capabilities and value streams. It helps in prioritizing product features that contribute to strategic goals and provides a clear view of the resources required to deliver on product roadmaps. Product Managers can also use Orthogramic to track performance metrics and stakeholder requirements to ensure successful product launches.
Primary Benefits:
Clear alignment between product features and business strategy.
Better resource management for product development.
Improved product delivery through performance tracking and stakeholder insights.
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the organization’s IT strategy and digital transformation.
Ensure the IT infrastructure
Technology innovation and integration
Cybersecurity and data management
UX/UI Designers
User experience and usability
Visual design and branding consistency
User engagement and satisfaction
Data Analysts
Strategic insights from data analysis
Support for data-driven decision-making
- Ensuring data quality and relevance
supports business goals.
Manage technology investments and innovation.
How Orthogramic Helps: CIOs use Orthogramic to ensure that IT initiatives and investments are aligned with business capabilities and strategy. The platform allows them to track technology-driven projects, ensuring they are executed efficiently and in line with the organization’s goals. With Orthogramic, CIOs gain real-time insights into the performance of their IT teams and can prioritize investments based on strategic needs.
Primary Benefits:
Better alignment between IT strategy and business objectives.
Enhanced tracking of IT initiatives and performance metrics.
Informed decision-making regarding technology investments.
UX/UI Designers
Key Responsibilities:
Design user interfaces that meet user needs and business objectives.
Ensure consistency and usability across all digital products.
Collaborate with product teams to refine user experience.
How Orthogramic Helps: For UX/UI Designers, Orthogramic provides a view into how user interface elements tie into larger business capabilities and value streams. It helps them understand the strategic importance of design choices and their impact on product success. By aligning UX/UI work with the organization's goals, designers can ensure their contributions enhance the overall user experience and drive business value.
Primary Benefits:
Clear understanding of how UX/UI work impacts business outcomes.
Alignment of design work with strategic business objectives.
Improved collaboration with product teams for better design execution.
Data Analysts
Key Responsibilities:
Analyze data to provide actionable insights for decision-making.
Ensure data integrity and accuracy across all business units.
Support strategic initiatives through data-driven analysis.
How Orthogramic Helps: Orthogramic enables Data Analysts to access comprehensive performance data across business domains. They can easily identify trends, measure the success of initiatives, and provide insights that support strategic decision-making. The platform’s analytics tools help Data Analysts ensure that the organization’s data is being used effectively to drive business performance and strategic alignment.
Primary Benefits:
Access to comprehensive data across business domains.
Enhanced ability to provide data-driven insights for strategic decisions.
Compliance Officers
Regulatory Compliance: Compliance officers use Orthogramic to ensure that all business activities align with relevant regulations, standards, and organizational policies.
Monitoring Compliance Metrics: The platform enables compliance officers to track compliance metrics and KPIs, ensuring that the organization remains in good standing with regulatory bodies.
Auditing and Reporting: Compliance officers can generate detailed audit reports using Orthogramic, providing transparency and traceability for regulatory bodies or internal audits.
Risk Mitigation: By identifying areas of non-compliance or emerging risks, compliance officers can proactively address issues before they escalate.
Collaboration with Legal and Governance Teams: Compliance officers can collaborate with other departments to ensure that legal and governance standards are upheld across the organization.
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