Operating Model
What is Operating Model?
A description of how an organization delivers value through the arrangement of its people, processes, technology, and governance structures.
Terms that appear alongside operating model
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as operating model. The number is how many controls name both.
- decision rights 2 shared controls
- governance 2 shared controls
- data governance 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern operating model
What the standards actually require on operating model
Requirements naming operating model across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The IT capabilities are placed within the enterprise's organisational structure so that their position mirrors how strategically important IT is and how much operations depend on it, which includes the line the CIO reports to and how IT is represented in the b...
cobit-2019::APO01.06 · APO01.06 Optimize the placement of the IT function →Design the operating model (centralized, decentralized, hybrid, federated) and the bodies and roles that make decisions and resolve issues: steering committee, council, office, stewards, with their decision rights and escalation paths.
dama-dmbok2-data-management-body-of-knowledge-2nd-edition::DG.2.6 · DG.2.6 Define the data governance operating framework →Guidance that, set against the organization's strategy and values, its operating model and its leadership, the HCRD process weighs seven elements: the guiding principles in 4.2; who the stakeholders are, internal and external kept apart (4.3);
iso-30414-2025::4.1 · General: the HCRD guidelines to consider →The first dimension: the organization's structure, roles, responsibilities, lines of authority and communication systems are set out and support its strategy and operating model. It also needs a culture that supports the objectives;
itil-4::3.1 · 3.1 Organizations and people →Recovery deals with the crisis's effects and the route back to normal, or adaptation to a new situation where the crisis has changed things for good.
iso-22361-2022::5.3.6 · Recovery →Guidance that HCR follows seven principles: strategic focus, with metrics that are material to the strategy and values and in keeping with them;
iso-30414-2018-human-resource-management-guidelines-for-internal-and-external-human-capital-reporting::4.2 · Guiding principles →Questions people ask about operating model
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