BOS Domain Model

The map of how the business actually works.

The domain model defines the relationships between people, process, information, and technology.

Four Domains

The model organizes the business into four connected views.

Domain

Process

How value streams, capabilities, use cases, and steps describe the movement of work.

Domain

Information

How flow object templates, flow objects, and flow items describe the information moving through work.

Domain

People

How functions, departments, employees, roles, and responsibilities define ownership and accountability.

Domain

Technology

How system domains, systems, and integrations support execution across the operating model.

Process Model

Process describes how the business creates and delivers value.

The process model moves from the highest-value flow of the business down to the specific steps required to execute. It gives leaders a practical way to see where work starts, where it changes state, and where it reaches an outcome.

Process

Value Streams

The major paths through which the business creates value for customers, operators, partners, or internal teams.

Process

Capabilities

The abilities the business needs in order to support each value stream and operate consistently.

Process

Use Cases

The operational scenarios where roles, systems, data, decisions, and workflows come together.

Process

Steps

The executable units of work, including sequencing, conditions, approvals, and handoffs.

Information Model

Information describes what moves through the work.

The information model defines the operational entities and supporting items that carry context through the system. It keeps the business from treating every tool record as a separate version of reality.

Information

Flow Object Templates

The reusable definitions for operational objects, including expected fields, states, relationships, and rules.

Information

Flow Objects

The main business entities moving through workflows, such as opportunities, projects, deliverables, approvals, and invoices.

Information

Flow Items

The tasks, data points, documents, approvals, notes, events, and artifacts that live inside those objects.

People Model

People describes ownership, accountability, and governance.

The people model connects how the company is organized to how work is performed. It clarifies which function owns a capability, which department participates, which employee fills a role, and which responsibilities are assigned to that role.

People

Business Functions

The major areas of business accountability, such as sales, delivery, finance, operations, and customer success.

People

Departments

The organizational groups responsible for operating, supporting, and improving specific capabilities.

People

Employees

The people assigned to roles and involved in execution, review, governance, or escalation.

People

Roles

The operating seats that perform, decide, approve, govern, or improve work across the system.

People

Responsibilities

The accountabilities attached to each role, including decision rights, task ownership, review duties, and governance.

Technology Model

Technology describes the systems that enable execution.

The technology model defines where the operating model is supported by systems, data movement, integrations, and applications. It keeps technology tied to business logic instead of letting tools define how work should happen.

Technology

System Domains

The categories of technology capability, such as CRM, finance, documents, delivery, identity, or analytics.

Technology

Systems

The specific platforms, applications, databases, and internal tools used to execute and govern work.

Technology

Integrations

The connections that move context, trigger work, synchronize objects, and coordinate execution between systems.

How the Model Works Together

The domain model connects what the business does, who does it, what information moves, and which systems support it.

A use case is not only a process. It depends on roles, responsibilities, flow objects, flow items, systems, integrations, and business rules. The domain model shows those relationships so the business can design operations as a system rather than a collection of disconnected practices.

Operating Logic

Business meaning comes first

The model starts with value streams, capabilities, use cases, objects, roles, and responsibilities.

Execution Layer

Systems support the model

Technology is mapped to the work, information, and accountability structure the business has defined.

Next Model

See how business objects become executable.

The business object model explains how flow objects and flow items become the runtime layer for workflows, dashboards, integrations, and AI.