From Business model to Capability Map

Competensis
December 2021
Christine Dessus
chdessus@competensis.com
+336 31 09 73 54
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Sources of Inspiration for Business Architecture
• www.strategyzer.com : business model canvas, value proposition canvas and Lean start-up canvas
• https://blog.leanstack.com/ Love the problem +Thoughts on continuous innovation
• https://www.businessarchitectureguild.org/ Business Architecture Guild
• https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap06.htmlTOGAF
• https://publications.opengroup.org/editors-picks/business-architecture
• https://www.jibility.com/book/
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BusinessArchitecture
Survival Guide
Learning by doing
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Dissociate the
points of view
in Business
Architecture
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What the company does: CAPABILITY
Who does it: ORGANIZATION (business functions, roles &
actors)
How value is realized: VALUE STREAM
How the operational activities are carried out : PROCESS
What INFORMATION is required, produced?
What SYSTEMS are used?

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Business Model
Value Stream
Value Stage
Capability &
Capability Map
Roles & Actors
Business Process
Business Function
Data &
Information
IT Solutions &
Technology
Operationalize
(Realize)
Enable (Serve)
Consist of (Composition)
Part of (Aggregation)
Value proposition
Concepts
&
Perspectives

Concepts & Perspectives
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OutboundVision
Toward beneficiaries
Organisation Internal
Vision
Capabilities are at the junction between Outbound
and Internal visions.
Capabilities enable both perspectives

Business
Model
Business Model
• A model describing the rationale for how an
organisation creates, delivers and captures
value.
TOGAF BusinessArchitecture
Level 1 StudyGuide, Page 21

Business Model Canvas
• The LeanCanvas
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Key Partners Key
Activities
Key
Resources
Value
Proposition
Customer
Relationship
s
Channels
Customer
Segments
Cost Structure Revenue Streams

Designing a Business Model
•Check that:
✓You can overcome main barriers to entry
✓You can create financial value (benefits) within an acceptable time
✓You do have a market
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Modeling
a
Business
Model
with
ArchiMate
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Modeling a Business Model with ArchiMate
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• Your organization has decided to become a green electricity producer.
• Your organization has planned to install solar panels and solar tiles on the roofs of
all building.

Modeling a Business Model with ArchiMate
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Value Stream
Capability
Process
Company activities
But seen through a different prism, a
different point of view.

Company activities -Views
Value stream
• Activities as seen by the value
recipient(s)
• Value produced by the company
for the beneficiaries
• A chain of activities that create
value for the beneficiary(ies)
• External viewpoint
Capability
• The ability that a company
possesses or acquires to achieve
a specific objective
• Internal viewpoint
• Activities required to achieve the
business model:WHAT andWHY
• Internally owned or purchased
from a supplier
▪ Existing capacity, already available
▪ New capacity required to
implement a new strategy
Process
• A chain of activities
transforming inputs into outputs
(information or material)
• Internal viewpoint
• Internal company activities,
often with an optimization
objective
• Operational model:WHO,WHAT,
HOW,WHEN,WHERE...
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Capability Definition
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•A capability is a core building block of an organization and is a
combination of physical things, data, processes and people.
Source : JIBILITY by Chris Benthien, Chuen Seet & the JibilityTeam

Define each CAPABILITY
• The CAPABILITY map is not enough. It is necessary to describe each CAPABILITY
Name Description
Roles, actors,
stakeholders
Goal
Process
Resources:
systems or
people
Information &
data
Value & Risk
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Capability Definition
• People
✓The competencies, skills, and workforce necessary to enable a talent base to execute the capability.
• Process
✓An efficient set of processes and activities designed to produce the desired outcome.
• Technology
✓Software applications, hardware infrastructure, and necessary tools to enable the capability.
• Governance
✓Compilation of clear roles and responsibilities, decision policies to facilitate integrations within and
across other capabilities, functions, and business partners.
• Data & Information
✓Conceptual representation of things that exist in the real world, used to model a business rather than
an IT system
✓Articulate, characterize and visually represent the information critical to the business.
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Capability Pattern With ArchiMate
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Capability Mapping
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Capability Description [Example]
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Capability Heat Mapping & Maturity measurment
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Capability Maturity Assessment
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CAPABILITY MATURITY
ASSESSMENT
• Capability definition
• Goals and objectives of the capability
• Current state capability assessment
• Capability needs to reach the desired target
state
• Metrics
VRINS FRAMEWORK
• VALUABLE - Capability helps raise revenues or
lower costs
• RARE - Capability is unique among organizations
• INIMITABLE - Capability cannot be copied
• NON SUBSTITUABLE - Other capabilities do not
provide the same functionality
• SUSTAINABLE - It can be scaled and repeated over
time with little loss

Assess Capability Criticality and Security
•Criticality
✓assesses the capability’s importance to the business and the link to
strategy.What operational expenditures are required?What is the
importance of the data used by the capability’s components?
•Security
✓assesses the vulnerability of the capability’s underlying components.
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Capability Heat Mapping
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Going further... withValue Streams
• Describe the value streams
• For each stage, identify the required capabilities, their level of maturity
and expected performance.
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Going further... withValue Streams
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chdessus@competensis.com
+336 31 09 73 54
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