This document provides information on business composability including definitions, principles, and how organizations can transition from traditional to composable. It defines a composable business as one that is architected for real-time adaptability and resilience through a mindset of modularity. Key aspects include developing interchangeable business blocks, autonomous teams, and composable technologies and strategies to accelerate change. The document discusses expected changes in areas like strategy, customers, workforce, and operations to achieve a highly composable organization.

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2. Business Composability
Source of documentation

3. Sources for « Business Composability»
•GartnerWEBINARs :
✓https://www.gartner.com/en/webinars/4005892/the-gartner-2022-cio-agenda-make-
composability-your-
superpower?utm_medium=promotion&utm_campaign=RM_GB_2022_ITCIO_NPP_IA1_22CI
OAGENDABACKPAGE&utm_term=wb%0D
✓https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEauv7Q_DG4
✓https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYF4CO3iYw0
•OtherWEBINARs :
✓https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXJ9R07uNc
✓https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_lGWj_c4s (The best one)
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4. Sources for « Business Composability»
•Articles (2020 & 2021)
✓https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/10/22/business-composability/
✓https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-keynote-the-future-of-business-is-
composable
✓https://solutions-entreprise.developpez.com/actu/328263/Les-entreprises-doivent-adopter-
la-composabilite-de-l-entreprise-business-composability-en-2022-pour-prosperer-malgre-les-
perturbations-selon-une-enquete-de-Gartner-aupres-de-plus-de-2-000-DSI/
✓https://www.oomphinc.com/insights/building-composable-business/
•Article « Composable Business », by IBM en 2014
✓https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2014/04/23/composable-business/
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5. Sources « Packaged business capability »
• https://www.elasticpath.com/blog/what-are-packaged-business-capablities
• https://blog.dreamfactory.com/enterprise-it-building-blocks-the-packaged-
business-capability/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu6U9EL5w8 (very clear.Technology
oriented. Good definition of PBC)
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6. Composable Business
Definition

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8. Goal
•Strengthen the organization adaptability and
resilience.
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9. Definition
We are in aVUCA world :Volatility,
Uncertainty,Complexity and Ambiguity
A composable business is an organization that
is architected for real time adaptability and
resilience in the face of uncertainty.
Mindset, technologies and a set of operating
capabilities that enable organizations to
innovate and adapt quickly to business
change
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10. Definition
Composable is a form of
the word compose
which is defined as “to
make or form by
combining things, parts
or elements.”
Dictionary.com
A composable business is a
business that’s made up of
a combination of multiple
parts or elements.
IBM
April 2014
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11. Key
principle
Apply modularity to Business
Assets to achive the scale and pace
required of business ambitions
Ensure a holistic, system view at
the business level. Not only at the
technology, application levels.
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12. Taking advantages
• Greater flexibility and agility through
modularity
• More awareness and speed through
discovery
• More willingness and resilience through
autonomy
• Better adaptability and leadership through
orchestration
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13. Composable Business
Architecture

14. Major
principles of
high
composable
organisations
Strategic planning & budgeting
become a continuous and iterative
activity to adjust to change easily;
instead of a once year process
Natural acceleration of the digital
business
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15. Expected
changes:
From
traditional to
composable
business
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16. Expected changes: From traditional to composable business
TRADITIONAL COMPOSABLE
STRATEGY Cyclical, seasonal
Not intensively managed
before the end of the cycle
▪ Adaptative and continuous
▪ Constantly evolving, like a GPS
▪ Define where the organisation is focusing, its
point to be
▪ Define how to achieve goals
▪ Constantly reshape what capabilities and
technologies are required
▪ Integrate technology strategy into business
strategy
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17. Expected changes: From traditional to composable business
TRADITIONAL COMPOSABLE
CUSTOMER &VALUE ▪ Focus on what the enterprise can
deliver
▪ Vision from INSIDE to OUTSIDE
▪ Consider capSabilities as the
value for customers
▪ Looking beyond their own capabilities
▪ Vision from OUTSIDE to INSIDE
▪ Leverage echosystem partnerships to
create much more customer value
propositions
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18. Expected changes: From traditional to composable business
TRADITIONAL COMPOSABLE
TECHNOLOGY
(IT and industrial
technology)
▪ Based on stability and slow
predictable changes
▪ Constantly changing
▪ Investment in long term types of
technology (ERP)
▪ Project based
▪ The objectve is to modularize the
technology
▪ Sufficiently automated to provide
resources when necessary for the
business
▪ « Business technologists » are able to
develop new pieces of software (low-
code or no-code), in autonomy
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19. Expected changes: From traditional to composable business
TRADITIONAL COMPOSABLE
WORKFORCE ▪ Invest heavily in talents,
workforce
▪ Supplement human talent with automation,
machine learning,AI
▪ Develop intelligent insights (data driven) to
drive new opportunities
▪ Develop partnerships
▪ Improve skills of all people, not only certain
siloes
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20. Expected changes: From traditional to composable business
TRADITIONAL COMPOSABLE
OPERATIONS ▪ Efficient
▪ Constantly refining practices
and processes to eliminate
variances and waste
▪ Create automated and adaptable processes
(Lego blocks)
▪ Optimize practices to be interchangeables
and dynamics
▪ Segment operational practices so that part
of segments can be changed to create new
process
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21. Journey to a highly composable business
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22. What is composable in your Business ?
TO BE DONE
• Build Business Capability Map
• ModellingValue Stream, business
models and assign capabilities that
ensure business success
• Start to improve strategic capabilities
(heatmapping)
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23. Activate 3 axis
• Create an organization made from
interchangeable building blocks
• Identify and model business building
blocks : Capability, Process,
Technology, Principles, Business
Services,Value Stream…
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24. ComposableThinking

25. ComposableThinking: Accelerate mindset changes
• Mindset change – Run your business differently
✓Empower autonomous, self-organizing network of teams
✓Promote high-trust, empowering culture
✓Practice adaptive strategy
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26. Composable
Thinking:
Accelerate
mindset
changes
• Increase team and personal autonomy :
✓Decentralized, multidisciplinary
teams
✓New ideas and collaboration can
create new business opportunities
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27. ComposableThinking: Accelerate mindset changes
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28. Composable
Technologies

29. Business is supported by technologies
Technology must be
composable to enable
business modularity
Digital business initiatives
fail when managed as any IT
projects
Push forward iterative
technology development
Sharing data accross systems and people,
Building integration capabilities for data,
analytics and applications
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30. Use
composable
technologies
to make
capabilities
change
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31. ComposableTechnologies
• Develop and promote InformationTechnologists who work outside of
IT departments
• Develop and promote BusinessTechnologists who report outside of IT
departments and create technology or analytics capabilities.
✓Shape multidisciplinary teams to align on value
✓Design business and technology in parallel
Break the traditional silos between
IT and Business teams.
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32. ComposableTechnologies
• Increase modularity:
✓Build technology building blocks used to create new automated processes
• Improve orchestration:
✓Dynamically change processes if new business model opportunities arrive.
✓Coordinate (orchestrate) business and technology changes
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33. Composable
Technologies:
Develop
LOW-CODE
& NO-CODE
practices • Adopt iterative development as default
• Mobilize technologies to support continuous cross-team
collaboration
• Build out integration capabilities for data, analytics and
applications
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34. Composable Strategy

35. Strategy :
Develop
portfolio
composable
thinking
Decentralize
leadership accross the
organisation
Build autonomous self
organising teams :
• Teams have certain goals
to achieve
Provide high trust
culture that create an
appetite for calculate
risk taking
Encourage teams to
deliver on goals and
outcomes
Encourge teams to
push forward despite
risks
Adopt a dynamicaly
funded strategy
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36. Competensis®
Christine Dessus
chdessus@competensis.com
+336 31 09 73 54
www.competensis.com
COMPETENSIS® est une marque déposée. Ce document n’est pas libre de droit et ne doit pas être utilisé sans le consentement écrit de son ou ses auteurs.