Overview¶
The taxonomy of pillars, capability areas, capabilities, and their measurable abilities or summaries.
| Pillar | Area | Capability | Measurable ability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Pillar | ||||
| Business Strategy Actuation | ||||
| A.1.1 | Business Vision | Communicating the essence of what a business wants to achieve. | ||
| A.1.2 | Business Goals | Specifying the Business Outcomes along the EKG journey to achieve the Business Vision. | ||
| A.1.3 | Business Tactics | Ensuring that change capabilities are focused on business value realization. | ||
| Business Model Elaboration | ||||
| A.2.1 | Market Segmentation | Shared understanding of markets, products, and clients. | ||
| A.2.2 | Value Chain | Alignment of business capabilities with EKG pathway. | ||
| A.2.3 | Change Management | Manage operations change to a new state of sustainable value. | ||
| Business Enablers | ||||
| A.3.1 | Operating Model | The desired level of business process integration & standardization. | ||
| A.3.2 | Performance Management | Measure business processes to manage performance. | ||
| A.3.3 | Risk Management | Identify risk to mitigate or accept, with reaction plans. | ||
| A.3.4 | Supply Chain Management | Managed flow of goods, services & information between businesses. | ||
| A.3.5 | Scalability Assessment | Assessing scalability (work in progress). | ||
| A.3.6 | Capability Map | Defining what a business does and which outcomes it wants to achieve. | ||
| Organization Pillar | ||||
| Executive Leadership | ||||
| B.1.1 | Organizational Strategy | Organizational mandate and strategic support for the EKG. | ||
| B.1.2 | Organizational Policies | EKG alignment with the views and values of the organization. | ||
| B.1.3 | Funding and Resources | Funding process and resource allocation for the EKG. | ||
| B.1.4 | Technology Requirements | CIO support for EKG (where EKG fits in the overall technology stack). | ||
| B.1.5 | Organizational Processes | Alignment of EKG with business architecture. | ||
| B.1.6 | Organizational Governance | Process for aligning EKG with organizational accountabilities. | ||
| Product Ownership | ||||
| B.2.1 | Use case Requirements | Identification/prioritization of EKG use case requirements. | ||
| B.2.2 | Funding & Budget | Annual and multi-year funding process. | ||
| B.2.3 | Delivery Process | Management of statements of work for business outcomes. | ||
| B.2.4 | Measurement Criteria | Business metrics and criteria for evaluating the EKG. | ||
| B.2.5 | Team Requirements Management | Identification and management of skill sets needed for the EKG. | ||
| Delivery Management | ||||
| B.3.1 | Data-movement | Process for extracting/transforming data from source-to-EKG. | ||
| B.3.2 | Ontologies & Mapping | Continuous improvement of ontologies and use cases and data products that rely on them. | ||
| B.3.3 | DataOps Process | Rules and standards for building, testing, and maintaining the EKG. | ||
| B.3.4 | User Interface and Access | Methodology for facilitating end-user access to data. | ||
| B.3.5 | EKG/Platform Team | Requirements and accountabilities for managing the [EKG/Platform](https://method.ekgf.org/vocab/ekg-platform/). | ||
| Organizational Culture | ||||
| B.4.1 | Implementation Approach | Build versus buy decisions. | ||
| B.4.2 | Agility & Innovation | Empowerment, adaptability and failure tolerance. | ||
| B.4.3 | Ecosystem Collaboration | Alignment with technology, business, and operations. | ||
| Organizational Capabilities | ||||
| B.5.1 | Control Functions | Coordination with privacy, legal, security, records management. | ||
| B.5.2 | Vendor Management | Acquisition and licensing of vendor products. | ||
| B.5.3 | Talent Management | Skills acquisition, retention and training. | ||
| B.5.4 | Knowledge Sharing | Ability of the organization to facilitate knowledge collaboration. | ||
| Data Pillar | ||||
| Data Strategy | ||||
| C.1.1 | Goals & Objectives | EKG as the semantic data mesh for the organization. | ||
| C.1.2 | Business Case | Business rationale, justification and ROI of the EKG. | ||
| Data Architecture | ||||
| C.2.1 | Ontologies | The _models_ that provide the structure and meaning for the information. | ||
| C.2.2 | Business Vocabularies | Terms used to refer to the information by different business communities. | ||
| C.2.3 | Datasets | Coherent collections of information made available for access. | ||
| C.2.4 | Data Integration | Unifying or relating different information concepts. | ||
| Data Quality | ||||
| C.3.1 | Business Rules | Strategy and approach for managing data quality. | ||
| Data Governance | ||||
| C.4.1 | Operating Model | Structure and approach for the EKG Center of Excellence. | ||
| C.4.2 | Data Management Policy | Policies, procedures, and standards for managing the data lifecycle. | ||
| C.4.3 | Classification Management | Management of the data production and manufacturing process. | ||
| C.4.4 | Risk & Control Framework | Model-driven EKG access control mechanisms. | ||
| Technology Pillar | ||||
| Technology Strategy | ||||
| D.1.1 | Technology Architecture | Plans for physical infrastructure, applications, and automation. | ||
| Technology Execution | ||||
| D.2.1 | Identifier Resolution | Standards for ensuring content is identified and resolvable. | ||
| D.2.2 | Data Integration | Ability to source and integrate data (consolidate silos). | ||
| D.2.3 | Operations | Deployment and maintenance requirements for the EKG. | ||
| D.2.4 | Observability | Exploring properties and patterns of the overall EKG infrastructure | ||
| D.2.5 | Business Continuity | Continued business operations during unplanned [EKG/Platform](https://method.ekgf.org/vocab/ekg-platform/) disruption. | ||
| D.2.6 | Data Quality Implementation | Technical implementation of data quality framework. | ||
| D.2.7 | Analytics | Technical implementation of analytics facilities. | ||
| D.2.8 | Inferencing Rules | Inferring new facts from existing facts by means of ontologies. | ||
| D.2.9 | Entitlement Management | Enforcing fine-grained context-specific entitlement policies. | ||
| D.2.10 | Data Transformation Execution | Governed automated orchestration of data transformation. | ||
| D.2.11 | Knowledge Graph Storage & Retrieval | Semantic data storage managed by the [EKG/Platform](https://method.ekgf.org/vocab/ekg-platform/). | ||
| D.2.12 | Knowledge Graph Federation | Model-driven federated interoperable and distributed data platforms. | ||
| D.2.13 | Knowledge Graph Virtualization | Model-driven views on data of any source leaving it in-place. | ||
| D.2.14 | Large language model AI | Leveraging the power of LLM AI | ||
| User Interface | ||||
| D.3.1 | Search | Standards and tools for finding relevant data across the enterprise. | ||
| D.3.2 | Collaboration | ... todo ... | ||
| D.3.3 | Multilingual Support | ... todo ... | ||
| D.3.4 | Content Editing | ... todo ... | ||
| D.3.5 | Reporting | ... todo ... | ||
| D.3.6 | Visualization | ... todo ... | ||