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Business Architecture
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Business Architecture

by Jonathan Hunsley, Debra Paul, Victoria Banner, Michael Greenhalgh, Vicky Rothwell
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 12m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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5 CAPABILITY VIEW OF BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION

This chapter introduces the capability view of business architecture. It covers the following topics:

  • rationale for the business capability view;
  • business capability modelling;
  • elements of individual business capabilities;
  • business capability analysis;
  • leveraging business capabilities.

RATIONALE FOR THE BUSINESS CAPABILITY VIEW

A business capability represents a task or action that an organisation has the ability or motivation to perform. Tasks that organisations must perform include:

  • strategy execution;
  • employee recruitment;
  • supplier engagement.

A business capability model is a blueprint that provides a static and conceptual view of the set of capabilities present within an organisation. ...

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ISBN: 9781780176727