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The Conceptual Operating Model of a business is used to understand what the key areas of the organisational structure should be, how they would associate with each other and what each area does.

The conceptual model is concerned with how the business should look, not how it does look now.  It can be useful to allow understanding of what the key areas of the business are and how they interact.  It allows an organisation to focus on where they need to be and to plan to move towards this.

Capturing the Operating Model

The Business Operating Model is captured - in terms of the design of the organisation - by defining Business Roles. These are used to represent the DESIGN of the organisation, in terms of the roles that are required and how they are related. Business Roles perfom Business Processes and can be groups, departments, teams or job roles within the enterprise, representing many levels of granularity as to how the processes are performed. Roles can also own a process.

To capture the business operating model, the key relationships between Business Roles are:

  • Containment - capturing the sub-roles that make up a Role, e.g. the Business Roles that are required to make up a logical team (Group Role)
  • Responsibility - capturing those roles to which a Business Role is responsible


Viewing the Strategic Logical Business Operating Model

The Strategic Logical Business Operating Model report of Essential Viewer provides a graphical rendering of the logical operating model.

This report needs to have the 'root' Business Role defined in order to work. Please select the 'root' business role, e.g. Investment Management Company, Logistics Company, that is relevant to your organisation before publishing and running this report.

 

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