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Organizations can be viewed through an [object-oriented](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) lens.
Alternatively, organizations can be considered domains and domain-specific language can develop around these.

The Ruby language was inspired by these ideas in the mid 2010's.

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Organizational ontology can enhance communication, reduce redundancy and duplication of data.

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# Organizational Objects

### Things that are commonly modeled

* Organizations
* Services
* People
 * Responsibilities - what needs to be done. period.
* Roles - a group of responsibilities. often associated with hierarchy in an organization.
* Teams - groups of people who work together to achieve something
* Departments -  larger and more general or generic groupings of people that organizations use to manage things, like budgets and communications
* Projects - Teams working toward a specific goal, in service of a larger outcome. Projects are typically temporary in nature.
* Ideas

###### Other lenses

* Problems
* Solutions
* Means
* Ends
* Revenues
* Expenses

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