This document discusses business capability modeling and its use for business-IT alignment. It defines a business capability as a stable, cohesive ability to do something, independent of organizational structure. Capabilities are defined by people, processes, information and tools rather than departments or functions. The document provides examples of capability models for a labor ministry and internet service provider. It explains how capability modeling can be used for business analysis, strategic planning, and design of technical services aligned with business goals. Overall, the document promotes modeling capabilities as a way to achieve division of work and alignment between business and IT.
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From Capabilities to Services: Modelling for Business-IT Alignment v.2 ext
3. Thus God knows the
world, because He
conceived it in His mind, as
if from the outside, before
it was created, and we do
not know its rule, because
we live inside it, having
found it already made.
-William of Baskerville
The Name of the Rose miniseries 2019
4. Source: Sam Homer, https://businessways.com/organization-need-businessit-alignment/@trondhjort
16. @trondhjort
-Udi Dahan, 2010
A service is the technical
authority for a specific
business capability.
Photo: DDD Europe 2017
17. Source: From Capabilities to Services: Moving from a Business Architecture to an IT Implementation, Homann & Tobey 2006@trondhjort
18. @trondhjort
A business capability
represents the ability for a
business to do something.
Source: The Open Group 2016 in G161, Open Group Guide: Business Capabilities
A business capability is a
particular ability or capacity
that a business may possess or
exchange to achieve a specific
purpose or outcome.
31. Source: Example by Ulrich Kalex, The Open Group@trondhjort
The Enterprise
Corporate Management
Market
Dev.
Oversight
Delivery
Product
Dev.
Support
&
Services
32. The Enterprise
Source: Business Capability Management, Ulrich Kalex 2011@trondhjort
Corporate Management
Market
Dev.
Oversight
Delivery
Product
Dev.
Market Development
Contact Man.
Revenue
Analysis
Regional
Market
Man.
Order
and
Contract
Man.
Market
Analysis
Support
&
Services
Direct Marketing
Channel Man. Sales Man.
34. Labour and Welfare
@trondhjort
Corporate Management
Service development
Assistive
Employment assistance
User management
Portfolio management
Employment
assistance
Social
assistance
Family
assistance
Statistics
Pension
assistance
Benefits
Unemployment
assistance
Employer
support
Sick leave
assistance
Employment
service
36. @trondhjort
Name Service feasibility check
Description
The ability to check what type of technical access
infrastructure is available at a given address.
Components
Roles
User: Customer
Business unit: Technical infrastructure
Processes
Feasibility search
Service inventory
Information
Technical address, networks, access types,
broadband speed,
Tools
Kapaks, search component, address index.
41. @trondhjort
Products-mode works best when teams are organized to be
simultaneously aligned with business relevant capabilities and
with enterprise architecture boundaries.
Source: "Products Over Projects", Sriram Narayan 2018
Without the former, they may lose alignment with business
goals. Without the latter, they lose out on autonomy.
Product over projects
48. Source: From Capabilities to Services: Moving from a Business Architecture to an IT Implementation, Homann & Tobey 2006@trondhjort
49. @trondhjort
-Mel Conway, 1968
organizations which design
systems ... are constrained to
produce designs which are
copies of the communication
structures of these
organizations.
52. A complex system that works is
invariably found to have evolved
from a simple system that worked.
A complex system designed from
scratch never works and cannot
be patched up to make it work.
You have to start over with a
working simple system.
-John Gall