The document introduces the concept of a business capability model for normalizing business exchanges. It discusses how capabilities abstract away how business is carried out by focusing on what a business can deliver. Capabilities are longer-term concepts that represent a company's ability to provide value to the market. Requests represent a specific instance of a capability being utilized, with an implicit relationship between the request and producer. The capability model promotes flexibility, agility, and competition between providers by allowing consumers to easily change providers.

1. Business Capability Model
Normalizing the business, simplifying the World

2. Coming from Real Business Life
Ability to produce bread Necessity to consume bread
Business exchange is executed

3. Coming from Real Business Life
● Backer has an expectation about what the Market
needs and what he can offer
● Consumer has a necessity and expectation about which
product can fulfill
● Sell/buy bread is an abstract concept, well-known in the
business domain. Both parts assume a process with
incomings/outcomings even without knowing each
other, based on the experience

4. Business Capability Model
Discipline to capture the “what” business does
composing by a set of capabilities, relaxing the
view about “how” business is carried on

5. Concept of Capability
● Ability of a company to deliver value
● Abstract concept, it execution is concrete
● Capabilities is a longer term concept for the
company. Business capability can change
slightly but they are part of the business
nature

6. Capability vs Request
● Capability is an value of the Market provided by a company
● Capability doesnt known producer, it is an abstraction which is realized by
a company when is provided
● Capability is reusable, a backer sells bread, also a supermarket, a mall...
● Request has an producer who implemented, requesting has an implicit
relationship request-producer
● Capability need to sign a contract as preliminary step before carrying
with business process, this signature process meets both part each other
● Capability promotes the competition, providers can compete to maximize
the generated value. Your bread is good but mine is better, so the
consumer can change the contract
● Capability more agile and flexible. Due to the fact, both parts does not
need to know in advance, to change of provider is easier.

7. Capability Model as Normalization Mechanism
…
coffee..
arabic..
puff...
Cowmilk
Morning, can I
help you ?
!!
● Consumers have a
preconfigured idea
about how a business
exchange is
● Ad hoc business
processes require time
for consumer to be
internally accepted
● Capability is a
universal concept
accepted for business
participants in a
business domain
Colombian,
Arabic, African
coffee ?
I want a
coffee with
milk
!
Cow, goat,
camel milk
Cup or glass
!!!
God !..
Cup
!!!!
God !.. Your name, sir?
John
Dammit, 80 cents, sir
I forgot my
wallet !

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9. Get in contact
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