We are building an Enterprise Architecture team in the organization and we'd like to map the business capabilities for Enterprise Architecture. What would be a list of business capabilities for Enterprise Architecture?

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Head of Technology Transformationa year ago

Have you looked at the APQC model? You could start from there, so you have something other than a blank sheet to stimulate the development of said artifacts.

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Director of IT7 months ago

I classify the business capabilities into two categories, foundational and business differentiators. The foundational capabilities are common for most of the business. Examples are HR, IT, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Research/Innovation and Legal. The business differentiators are different for different business domains. For example, in transportation domain; Planning, Operations, Operator Management, Vehicle Management, Facilities and Customer Experience are some of the business capabilities.

I will first identify high level capabilities like above and get the buy in from the business leadership. Next step would be to work with business users to identify sub capabilities.

Good luck. I found business capabilities to be a good tool to while communicating various EA artifacts.

Head of Architecture and Strategy3 months ago

This has become increasingly critical for organisations I have worked with, in terms of being able to both explain how their technology supports the business, and also how the business capabilities work together to deliver the outcomes we need as a business. As such, we're focusing on mapping our capability and process models (which we have to level 3 currently) to the business model canvas. Our aim is to help the various business and product teams understand and more importantly, predict how what they are doing will impact the rest of the business. I'm increasingly convinced this kid of approach (and no doubt there will be better ways than ours of approaching this) will be critical to successful product managed businesses, as a way of joining up the various teams more effectively.

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Director of Engineering in Banking2 months ago

Matt - Any chance you have any templates you can share for the capability mapping and value streams? There are a lot out there. I'm curious what you landed on and what worked/didn't work.

Thanks