User types

Introduction

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.

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.

Conclusion

By clearly defining and understanding the different user roles within Orthogramic, organizations can optimize their system interactions and align them with strategic objectives. This guide provides the necessary information to ensure that each user type is effectively managed and their contributions are aligned with the overall goals of the organization.

User types

These are the standard User types. You can deselect User Types you are not working with and add them later if needed via Settings > User types

1. Business Architect

2. Chief Operating Officer (COO)

3. Strategic Planner

4. Managers

5. Enterprise Architect

6. Product Managers

7. Chief Information Officer (CIO)

8. UX/UI Designers

9. Data Analysts

10. Compliance Officers

11. Change managers

12. Talent acquisition

User types and main drivers

These are the standard User types and the description of their main drivers:

Business Architect

• Business Architecture: Business architects rely on Orthogramic to define and visualize the organization’s business architecture, ensuring all business components are aligned with the organization’s goals.

• Capability Development: Orthogramic helps architects identify gaps in the organization’s capabilities and propose solutions that enhance business performance and scalability.

• Standardizing Processes: Business architects use Orthogramic to standardize processes across departments, ensuring that workflows and procedures are optimized for efficiency and consistency.

• Collaboration with IT: Orthogramic enables business architects to collaborate with IT departments, ensuring that business and technology architectures are aligned.

• Architecture Governance: Business architects utilize Orthogramic to enforce governance and compliance within the organization’s architecture framework, ensuring that all changes are documented and traceable.

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

• Operational efficiency

• Cost management

• Customer satisfaction and quality of service

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.

Executives and senior managers

• 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

• Product lifecycle management

• Market competitiveness

• Customer feedback and satisfaction

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

• IT infrastructure and operations

• 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

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.

Change Managers

• Execute organizational change initiatives.

• Communicate and involve stakeholders.

• Evaluate change effects on organization.

Talent acquisition

• Optimizing Talent Alignment: Talent Acquisition teams are driven by the need to ensure that the right resources are in place for ongoing and upcoming projects. Using Orthogramic’s business architecture insights, they can accurately match resource requirements to strategic objectives.

• Streamlining Recruitment Processes: Efficiency is key in recruitment. Orthogramic helps Talent Acquisition staff to automate workflows, track recruitment progress, and ensure that key positions are filled in time to meet business deadlines.

• Improving Workforce Planning: By leveraging Orthogramic’s alignment with strategic initiatives, Talent Acquisition teams can forecast talent needs, predict skill gaps, and ensure they have the right people for the right roles at the right time.

• Enhancing Collaboration with Business Units: Talent Acquisition staff benefit from the ability to collaborate closely with business unit leaders, ensuring that recruitment efforts are aligned with broader business goals and capability requirements.

• Tracking Metrics and KPIs: Orthogramic allows Talent Acquisition teams to measure performance against defined KPIs, such as time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, and employee retention, ensuring they are meeting the needs of the organization efficiently.

Project planners

• Project Alignment: Project managers use Orthogramic to ensure that all projects align with the organization’s strategic goals, reducing the risk of misaligned initiatives that waste resources.

• Resource Allocation: Orthogramic helps project managers optimize resource allocation by providing insights into which projects are most critical and where additional resources are needed.

• Timeline and Milestone Tracking: With Orthogramic, project managers can track project timelines and milestones, ensuring that deadlines are met and that any delays are quickly addressed.

• Risk Management: Project managers can identify and manage risks within projects by leveraging the platform’s ability to highlight potential bottlenecks or resource constraints.

• Performance Reporting: Project managers rely on Orthogramic to generate reports on project performance, helping them keep stakeholders informed and enabling data-driven decision-making.