The common and efficient language. The whole operations names the parts of the organization’s information space, and everyone uses the same names.
Simple, solid and mature. Four Categories, each holding four Capabilities.
| Category | Capabilities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Business | Information | Application | Technology |
| Logical | Data Management | Integration | Platform | Security |
| Physical | Compute | Infrastructure | Network | Storage |
| Implementation | Deployment | Development | Monitoring | Operations |
Taxonomy does three jobs: it locates a concern, it gives roles a shared vocabulary, and it makes knowledge findable twice.
NOTE
No role renames or reinterprets these. That is the whole point of having them.
Taxonomy comes before the business ship leave the harbour: crew has to communicate effectively and quickly; organization can not operate, measure and mature in terms nobody agrees on.
Full reference: DBJ Taxonomy · the definitive hierarchy is in the Core