OCE.4:1 - Problem Frame

Organization design often begins with grouping: functions, products, customers, regions, programmes, professions, or platforms. Grouping helps attention, yet the organization contributes through relations that cross those groups. Evidence is supplied and used, decisions are issued and accepted, materials move, services are provided, resources are accessed, and exceptions return.

A contribution-architecture description makes intended relation specifications, any obtaining occurrences, and their receiving decisions visible while distinguishing proposed from actual relations. It may use several structures because activity grouping, decision representation, legal entities, information use, and service provision answer different questions. The design can then state which boundaries should change and which cross-boundary contributions must remain.