Value

Contribution to the EKG

Since an operating model reflects the business needs for standardization across a company and its business units, it could be a great input for the development of reusable business vocabularies as part of the data infrastructure of an enterprise as later explained in the data part of this work. These vocabularies may, in turn, be converted to machine-readable models. Such machine-readable models are called ontologies.

Contribution to the Enterprise

The operating model could help organizations define their requirements and expectations in terms of standardization and integration across business units. This would be useful to harmonize business capabilities and glossaries across companies and their business units.

Furthermore, an operating model may serve as input to the development of an Enterprise Architecture that serves as the organizing logic for business processes and IT infrastructure based on the company’s standardization and integration requirements.