User types details

Introduction

Orthogramic supports a range of user types, each with specific roles and drivers that influence how they interact with the platform. Defining user types ensures that individuals across your organisation can effectively contribute to and leverage business architecture insights tailored to their needs.

This section provides an overview of the standard user types available in Orthogramic and their primary responsibilities. By understanding the distinctions between these user types, organisations can:

• Assign the right level of access and functionality to different users.

• Align business architecture tasks with the expertise of each role.

• Enable a self-service approach, ensuring that business users, not just architects, can contribute meaningfully.

If your organisation does not currently require all listed user types, you can deselect them during setup and add them later through Settings > User Types.

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1. Policymakers

2. Strategic Planners

3. Business Architect

4. Chief Operating Officer (COO)

5. Chief Information Officer (CIO)

6. Executives and Senior Managers

7. Enterprise Architect

8. Product Managers

9. UX/UI Designers

10. Data Analysts

11. Compliance Officers

12. Change managers

13. Talent acquisition team

14. Project Planners

Main drivers for User Types

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

Policymakers

• Regulatory compliance and policy alignment: Ensures that organisational strategies, processes, and initiatives adhere to government regulations, industry standards, and internal policies. Orthogramic helps track and evaluate policy effectiveness, ensuring that all business activities align with legal and regulatory requirements.

• Strategic policy development: Develops, assesses, and refines strategic policies that guide business operations, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and efficient compliance frameworks.

• Monitoring policy impact: Tracks policy effectiveness in real-time, identifying areas where compliance efforts need strengthening and providing data-driven insights for policy refinement.

• Risk identification and mitigation: Identifies and addresses risks before they become compliance or operational issues, using scenario planning and historical policy data to anticipate regulatory challenges.

• Stakeholder communication and engagement: Facilitates collaboration and communication between executives, regulators, and employees to ensure policy understanding and compliance.

Strategic planner

• Strategic alignment: Ensures that organisational initiatives align with long-term goals by mapping strategic objectives to capabilities, value streams, and business architecture domains.

• Evaluating initiatives: Assesses ongoing and proposed initiatives using Orthogramic’s analytics to determine their contribution to business strategy and overall value.

• Adapting to market trends: Tracks external market shifts to keep business strategies agile and adaptable.

• Scenario planning: Simulates different business scenarios to evaluate potential market or operational changes.

• Monitoring KPIs: Tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) linked to strategic initiatives to measure success and adjust strategies accordingly.

Business architect

• Business architecture: Defines and visualises the organisation’s business architecture, ensuring all components align with strategic goals.

• Capability development: Identifies gaps in business capabilities and proposes solutions to enhance performance and scalability.

• Standardising processes: Establishes standardised workflows across departments to improve efficiency and consistency.

• Collaboration with IT: Works closely with IT to ensure that business and technology architectures remain aligned.

• Architecture governance: Enforces governance and compliance within the organisation’s architecture framework, ensuring traceability and documentation of all changes.

Chief operating officer (COO)

• Operational oversight: Ensures execution of business strategies while optimising workflows, resource allocation, and performance tracking.

• Business efficiency: Uses Orthogramic’s cross-functional view to monitor operational processes and identify inefficiencies.

• Strategic alignment: Aligns day-to-day operations with long-term business goals, ensuring consistency across business units.

• Resource optimisation: Tracks initiatives in real time to ensure effective resource allocation.

• Performance monitoring: Utilises dashboards to track operational KPIs and support continuous improvement.

Chief information officer (CIO)

• IT strategy and digital transformation: Ensures that IT initiatives align with business objectives and drive innovation.

• Data-driven decision making: Utilises Orthogramic for real-time insights into IT projects and infrastructure performance.

• IT governance and compliance: Tracks compliance with security, regulatory, and governance policies.

• Technology roadmap: Develops a strategic IT roadmap to ensure technology investments align with business needs.

• Cross-department collaboration: Bridges the gap between IT and business functions to ensure a seamless digital strategy.

Executives and senior managers

• High-level strategy: Ensures that the organisation’s business architecture supports overarching strategic goals.

• Data-driven decision making: Leverages Orthogramic’s insights to allocate resources and guide long-term growth.

• Performance management: Monitors organisational performance across departments to identify high-performing areas and those needing improvement.

• Change management: Leads organisational change initiatives while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

• Collaboration and communication: Facilitates interdepartmental communication to ensure alignment on business goals.

Enterprise architect

• IT and business alignment: Maps business capabilities and value streams to ensure technology supports organisational goals.

• Technology strategy: Designs and oversees the IT architecture, identifying gaps and proposing enhancements.

• System optimisation: Pinpoints inefficiencies in technology infrastructure and recommends improvements.

• Scenario planning: Assesses the impact of new technologies on business strategy and operations.

• Future planning: Develops technology roadmaps to ensure long-term alignment with business objectives.

Product managers

• Product lifecycle management: Oversees product development from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Strategic prioritisation: Uses Orthogramic insights to prioritise product features that contribute to organisational strategy.

• Resource allocation: Manages resource distribution across product teams to ensure efficiency.

• Stakeholder engagement: Tracks performance metrics and integrates stakeholder feedback for successful product launches.

• Roadmap execution: Aligns product development with broader organisational initiatives.

UX/UI designers

• User-centred design: Creates interfaces that balance user needs and business objectives.

• Consistency and usability: Ensures uniformity across digital platforms to enhance the user experience.

• Strategic alignment: Uses Orthogramic to understand how design decisions impact business capabilities and product success.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Works closely with product teams to refine digital interactions.

• User research integration: Incorporates insights from analytics to continuously improve UI/UX elements.

Data analysts

• Data interpretation: Provides actionable insights to support business decision-making.

• Accuracy and integrity: Ensures high-quality data across business functions.

• Strategic insights: Uses Orthogramic’s analytics to evaluate business performance and optimise strategies.

• Compliance support: Assists in ensuring organisational adherence to data regulations and reporting standards.

• KPI monitoring: Tracks key metrics to support informed decision-making.

Compliance officers

• Regulatory compliance: Ensures all business activities align with industry and legal regulations.

• Risk mitigation: Identifies and addresses compliance risks before they escalate.

• Audit and reporting: Uses Orthogramic to generate compliance reports for internal and external review.

• Policy enforcement: Monitors and updates organisational policies to maintain compliance.

• Stakeholder collaboration: Works with legal and governance teams to uphold standards.

Change managers

• Organisational transformation: Plans and executes change management strategies.

• Stakeholder alignment: Ensures all relevant teams understand and support organisational changes.

• Impact assessment: Measures the effectiveness of change initiatives and refines strategies accordingly.

• Risk identification: Anticipates and mitigates potential disruptions caused by change initiatives.

• Performance monitoring: Uses analytics to track change adoption and effectiveness.

Talent acquisition team

• Talent alignment: Ensures recruitment efforts match business needs and strategic objectives.

• Process optimisation: Uses Orthogramic to streamline hiring workflows and track recruitment progress.

• Workforce planning: Forecasts talent needs and predicts future skill gaps.

• Collaboration with business units: Works with hiring managers to align recruitment with capability requirements.

• KPI tracking: Monitors recruitment performance through metrics like time-to-fill and quality-of-hire.

Project planners

• Strategic project alignment: Ensures projects contribute to broader business objectives.

• Resource allocation: Optimises team and financial resources based on project priorities.

• Timeline and milestone tracking: Monitors deadlines to keep projects on schedule.

• Risk management: Identifies potential bottlenecks and takes preventive action.

• Performance reporting: Provides real-time insights to stakeholders for informed decision-making.