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OCOM is an open, technology-independent specification in the RFC tradition that describes an organization as a system of governed objects, each with identity, ownership, lifecycle and evidence. The reading path has three levels: an Executive Overview in plain language (about 15 minutes), the Normative Specification in nine chapters (design principles, core concepts, meta model, object model, lifecycle model, governance, conformance), and informative annexes with comparisons to BPMN, ArchiMate, TOGAF, knowledge graphs and digital twins, a FAQ and worked examples. For students of management, organizational design, enterprise architecture and information systems it offers a precise vocabulary for questions that textbooks usually leave informal: which objects an organization runs on, who answers for each of them, how they change state, and what evidence stands behind every claim about them. The text is free, openly licensed (CC BY 4.0), archived with a DOI, and also published in machine-readable form (JSON, JSON-LD), which makes it usable in assignments on data modelling and AI-assisted analysis. No software is needed; any browser is enough.

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