Organization Viewpoint

The Organization Viewpoint pattern creates elements  and a diagram that describes the roles and actors of an organization or entity,  or part of an organization such as a department or section.  The elements are represented in a nested structure. 

Figure 1. Shows a Business Layer Diagram with a set of Business Actors nested in a three level hierarchy.

Discussion
To provide  designing,  deciding and informing views for enterprise, process and domain architects, managers, employees, shareholders and others who are concerned with aspects such as identification of competencies, authority, and responsibilities 

It is typically created (or imported) during the initial stages of defining an enterprise architecture and can subsequently be used by any endeavor. Many other viewpoints and models will use elements from this view.

The following is a list of some things you may want to do when working with this pattern.
·	Change the name of the diagram to suit the initiative
Change the name of the Business Actors to suit the initiative
·	Create additional Business Actors and add other relationship as needed.

The following is a list of next steps you may want to perform after working with this pattern.
·	Relate the Business Actors to other element in he model such Capabilities or Business Processes to show responsibility, governance or other relationships.
Use the Relationship Matrix to visualize relationships.
Use the collaboration tools such as Discussions, Chat and Reviews to engage other modelers.
Generate documentation of the model and diagram using the automatic document generator. 
Create Maintenance Items such as Issues, Decisions, Changes and Tasks  as required.

Reference
The following help topics will assist you learn about how to work with this pattern.
Archimate Technology
Diagram Layout
Tools you may find useful
The following are some of the tools that will be helpful when working with this pattern.
Document Generator
The Document Generator is a powerful facility in Enterprise Architect that allows a Database Engineer or other stakeholder to create high quality corporate or technical documentation directly from the model, suitable for internal or external audiences. For more details see the Documentation help topic or the more general topic on Model Publishing.
Specification View
The Specification View can be used as a way of working with the Components and Interfaces particularly when there are a large number of elements as is typically the case when describing a system of any appreciable size. For more details see the Specification View help topic
Relationship Matrix
The Relationship Matrix provides a spreadsheet like view of two groups of elements and the relationships that exist between them. It can be a used as a powerful analysis mechanism to visually indicate how elements are related to each other and to discover which elements are missing relationships. For more details see the Relationship Matrix  help topic.
Traceability Window
The Traceability Window automatically displays the relationships that exist between Use Cases and other model elements including up-process and down-process elements. The traceability tree view can be conveniently expanded to see deeper relationships and elements displayed in the window can be located in all diagrams in which they appear. For more details see the Traceability Window  help topic.

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