What It Is

The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition is a vendor-neutral enterprise architecture framework from The Open Group. It enables organizations to design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise-wide change aligning business strategy with IT. Core is the iterative Architecture Development Method (ADM), a configurable lifecycle.

Key Components

• **ADM phasesPreliminary, A (Vision), B-D (domain architectures), E-F (planning), G-H (governance, change), plus ongoing Requirements Management.
• **Content FrameworkDeliverables, artifacts (catalogs/matrices/diagrams), building blocks; Content Metamodel for entities/relationships.
• Enterprise Continuum and Architecture Repository for reuse.
• Reference models: TRM, SIB, III-RM.
• **Architecture Capability FrameworkBoard, compliance, skills, maturity. Practitioner certifications available.

Why Organizations Use It

• Strategic alignment, cost reduction via reuse, vendor neutrality.
• Enhanced governance, risk management, ROI improvement.
• Supports agility, compliance in complex environments.
• Builds stakeholder trust through traceability.

Implementation Overview

Tailored, phased ADM: prepare capability, pilot domains, scale governance. Involves repository setup, training, board establishment. For large enterprises all industries; voluntary with internal audits.

What It Is

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards are the world's most used modular framework for sustainability reporting. They provide a global common language for disclosing significant economic, environmental, and social impacts through an impact-centric materiality approach, focusing on actual and potential effects on stakeholders rather than just financial materiality.

Key Components

• Universal Standards (GRI 1: Foundation, GRI 2: General Disclosures, GRI 3: Material Topics) as baseline requirements.
• Topic Standards (e.g., GRI 403 Occupational Health & Safety, GRI 308 Supplier Environmental Assessment) for specific disclosures.
• Sector Standards for high-impact industries like Oil & Gas and Mining.
• Core principles: accuracy, balance, verifiability; mandatory GRI Content Index for traceability; no formal certification, but "in accordance" compliance via self-reporting and optional assurance.

Why Organizations Use It

Drives accountability, regulatory alignment (e.g., EU CSRD), risk management, benchmarking, and stakeholder trust. Enables integrated ESG reporting, supply chain due diligence, and strategic decision-making.

Implementation Overview

Phased approach: materiality assessment, data systems, management disclosures, content index. Applicable to all sizes/sectors globally; requires governance oversight, no mandatory audit but assurance recommended.