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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.

Governance

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as operating model. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on operating model

Requirements naming operating model across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

A data management program with a defined operating model, structure, roles and responsibilities is established.

DCAM-3.1 · Data Management Program Operating Model

Establish a governance operating model with steering committee, data council, stewards, and clear decision rights aligned to business strategy.

DMBOK-DG-01 · Data Governance Strategy and Operating Model

Lloyds Cyber Insurance Requirements - Pricing, Rate Adequacy and Underwriter Authority. Pricing and Rate Adequacy Monitoring: (a) Risk-based pricing methodology + actuarial loss models + frequency-severity modeling + cyber-specific loss development triangles (...

LLOYDS-CI-Pricing-Rate-Adequacy-Underwriter-Authority-Reference-Limits-Exposure-Data-Bordereaux · Lloyds Cyber Insurance Pricing + Rate Adequacy + Authority + Exposure Data

Questions people ask about 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.
Why is Operating Model important for compliance?
Operating Model is a key concept in Governance. Understanding operating model helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Operating Model?
Operating Model appears in the requirement text of EDM Council DCAM - Data Management Capability Assessment Model, DAMA-DMBOK2 - Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition), Japan FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines for Financial Institutions, Lloyd's of London Cyber Insurance Requirements and Underwriting Standards. Across these standards we have identified 5 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Operating Model?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how operating model applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Operating Model applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.