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Business Ontology

A business ontology is a formal model of the concepts specific to how a company creates value — capabilities, strategies, operating models, outcomes, and their relationships — giving the organisation a precise, shared language for reasoning about strategy and execution.

Where a general ontology can describe any domain, a business ontology is tuned to the enterprise. It defines the strategic and operational entities leaders actually work with, and the relationships that link intent to result.

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This precision matters because business language is loose. "Capability," "initiative," and "outcome" mean different things in different rooms. A business ontology fixes each term to a defined concept, so plans, analyses, and AI recommendations all reference the same reality.

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