---
title: "The Big Picture"
url: https://ott.earth/
description: "Orchestrated Technology Transition is your practical blueprint for managing change across technology, processes, and people."
author: "Pavel Ott"
source: https://ott.earth/
license: CC BY 4.0
---

# The Big Picture




## Pages in this section

- [Why CDOs — The Anchor Problem](https://ott.earth/anchor-problem/) — When organisations change, most teams instinctively reach for what looks solid. But the only stable thing we control is meaning.
- [What a CDO actually feels like](https://ott.earth/lego-envelope/) — Lego bricks in shape, envelopes in responsibility — two complementary analogies that make CDOs concrete.
- [Without vs. With CDOs](https://ott.earth/without-vs-with/) — The same problems show up in every transformation — until the anchor changes.
- [Seamlessly guiding systems and people through change with precision and harmony.](https://ott.earth/overview/) — <strong>Orchestrated Technology Transition</strong> (OTT) is your practical blueprint for managing change across technology, processes, and people.<br>This blueprint is designed to help organisations move fast, stay aligned, and keep things running smoothly, even when everything's shifting.
- [Anticipated Questions](https://ott.earth/qa/) — Twelve questions leaders typically ask before adopting Orchestrated Technology Transition Enterprise Architecture framework — answered plainly.
- [Glossary](https://ott.earth/glossary/) — OTT framework glossary — Conceptual Data Object, CDO, Canonical, External Standard, Bespoke, MCP, RAG grounding, and related terms.
- [Business Requirements & Resiliency Mapping](https://ott.earth/business-requirements/) — Capture critical availability, lifecycle, redundancy, and performance requirements for every CDO so deliberate data duplication can be applied where needed for resilience, performance, and compliance.
- [CDO Governance & Maturity Management](https://ott.earth/governance/) — Establish governance that assigns ownership, sets review cadences, and defines a clear promotion path (e.g., Bespoke → Canonical) — ensuring projects transition from ad-hoc or high-frequency bespoke data objects toward standardised, industry-aligned models.
- [Cluster-Based Application Selection & Standardisation](https://ott.earth/application-selection/) — Match each CDO cluster with the most appropriate application solution, leveraging vendor expertise to embed industry best-practice standards into the product’s configuration.
- [Conceptual Data Object](https://ott.earth/cdo/) — High-level representations of business data that describe meaning, context, and relationships — independent of technical implementation.
- [List All Relevant CDOs · Document Business Meaning · Capture Attributes and Relationships](https://ott.earth/list-cdos/) — Catalogue all CDOs relevant to your organisation, document their meaning, attributes, and relationships, and analyse interactions and dependencies.
- [Map CDOs to Processes and Business Units](https://ott.earth/map-processes/) — Align each CDO with the business processes and organisational units that create, use, or manage it — ensuring clear ownership, highlighting gaps or overlaps, and confirming compliance with standards.
- [Review CDO Scope & Alignment](https://ott.earth/review-scope/) — Reduce bespoke concepts, maximise reuse of standards, and create a single agreed-upon definition for every key data object.