The typical responsibilities of an organization are to:
Collaborate with other organizations to achieve a cohesive set of an enterprise’s business
goals, whereby the specific set of goals depends on the individual organization.
Divide the human resources of a large enterprise into a
small number of more focused and manageable organizational units.
Different endeavors require different processes, which in
turn will require different organizations.
Every endeavor does not require every kind of organization.
Select only those organizations that are appropriate for the endeavor.
The same physical organization can often play the part of
multiple logical organizations, and the same logical
organization can be played by multiple physical
organizations. Whether one is speaking about a logical or
physical organization can usually be determined by context,
but the meaning should be made explicit if it is unclear from context.
Flexibility. The OPF supports flexibility in process engineering because
process engineers can tailor and/or extend the organizations
that make up a method (a.k.a., process model) in the following ways:
Responsibilities. Add, modify, and/or delete their responsibilities.
Teams. Add, modify, and/or delete the teams that they are composed of.
Work Units. Add, modify, and/or delete the work units that they perform.
