What is the target operating model?

The primary purpose of a Target Operating Model is to enable the application of a corporate strategy or vision to a business or operation. It is a high level representation of how a company can be best organised to more efficiently and effectively deliver and execute on the organisation’s strategy.

What is an operating model in it?

IT Operating Model (Information Technology Operating Model) is the unique configuration of people, processes, and infrastructure used to conduct the day-to-day operations of an organization. In effect, an IT Operating Model implements an IT Strategy and IT Strategic Plan.

How do you design an IT operating model?

Here is my 30 second guide to building your operating model:

  1. Define your operating model design principles.
  2. Define your operating model operating principles.
  3. Understand and document the value chain(s)
  4. Understand and define the capabilities required to deliver the value chains including supporting capabilities.

What are the key components of an operating model?

All elements of the operating model—structure, accountabilities, governance, essential behaviors as well as the way people, processes and technology get integrated to deliver key capabilities—must be explicitly designed to support the strategy.

What is a target operating model UK?

A Target Operating Model shows how an organisation should be supported by its employees and its organisational structure to deliver and execute the organisations future strategy.

What are the 4 operating models?

4 Types of Operating Models

  • Diversification (low standardization, low integration)
  • Coordination (low standardization, high integration)
  • Replication (high standardization, low integration)
  • Unification (high standardization, high integration)

What are the five core operating model functions?

While they can be grouped in a number of ways, we consider five core operating model functions: governance, risk and control; financial management; legal and physical structure; people and reward and delivery (operations and technology).

What are the four operating models?

The different types of operating models include coordination operating model, unification operating model, diversification operating model, and replication operating model.

What is the difference between business model and operating model?

A business model outlines how a company captures and offers value through its products/services, value proposition, customer segments, key partners, etc. An operating model, on the other hand, lays out how a company will run in order to deliver that value.

What is another word for operating model?

value-chain maps
Operating models, which may also be called value-chain maps, are created to help employees visualize and understand the role each part of an organization plays in meeting the needs of other components.