Business Architecture and Capability Modeling Articles and Insights

The Role of Business Architects in Mergers and Acquisitions

The role of business architects in mergers and acquisitions is pivotal and multifaceted. While corporate development staff and investment bankers

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The Role of Business Architects in Mergers and Acquisitions

Reviving the Sheen of Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been a critical element in the strategic planning of large organizations for years. Enterprise architecture provides

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Reviving the Sheen of Enterprise Architecture

Business Architecture Deliverables

What business architecture deliverables should you consider producing if you are a business architect? At the outset, Capstera’s view is

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Business Architecture Deliverables

Banking Business Capabilities Model

The banking business capabilities model is a strategic asset and critical bank enabler. Banks worldwide find themselves in the eye

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Banking Business Capabilities Model

Business Architect Career Path

What is a Business Architect career path? What is the entry point to the career of becoming a business architect

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Business Architect Career Path

Business Architect Role Definition

The Business Architect Role definition and the business architecture discipline are evolving.  The scope, span, power, goals, and outcomes desired

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Business Architect Role Definition

Finance Capabilities Model Drives Transformation

In this business architecture blog post, let’s review how a Finance Business Capabilities Model helps in accelerating the transformation of

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Finance Capabilities Model Drives Transformation

Capability-based Project Prioritization

Introduction to Capability-based Project Prioritization and Planning A strategic edge is invaluable in the swiftly evolving world of contemporary business.

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Capability-based Project Prioritization

Business-IT Alignment

Business-IT alignment is essential for any organization's success in today's digital economy. However, without alignment based on first principles and

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Business-IT Alignment

Avoiding Enterprise Architecture Debacles

In many large companies, enterprise architecture projects end up as failures or generate suboptimal results. Avoiding enterprise architecture debacles is

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Avoiding Enterprise Architecture Debacles

Enterprise Business Architecture Explainer

What is Enterprise Business Architecture? Enterprise Business Architecture is a blueprint that provides a comprehensive view of an organization from

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Enterprise Business Architecture Explainer

Socializing Business Architecture

Socializing business architecture is an essential and integral part of a business architect's role. And it is quite challenging. Therefore,

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Socializing Business Architecture

Digital Reference Architecture

What is Digital Reference Architecture? The digital reference architecture provides a foundational blueprint comprising taxonomy elements, interface definitions, and an

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Digital Reference Architecture

Business Capabilities Importance: Why Business Capabilities Matter?

Why are business capabilities critical to your firm? More importantly, how do you articulate the criticality of business capabilities? In

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Business Capabilities Importance: Why Business Capabilities Matter?

Defining a Technical Solution using Business Capabilities

Defining a Technical Solution using Business Capabilities: There is feeling Business strategists generally reside in ivory towers and produce a

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Defining a Technical Solution using Business Capabilities

Business Architecture Tools and Techniques

Business architecture is still a nascent discipline, and hence the business architecture tools and techniques are evolving as well. What

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Business Architecture Tools and Techniques

Making Business Architecture Effective

Making business architecture effective is a burning issue and a critical question for many industry practitioners and thought leaders. But

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Making Business Architecture Effective

Business Architect in the Digital Age

What is the role of a business architect in the digital age? How do the artifacts and business architecture fit

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Business Architect in the Digital Age

Versatile Business Architect

This post focuses on how to become a versatile business architect and be a center of contribution in an enterprise.

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Versatile Business Architect

Business Architecture Components

What are the essential business architecture components? Is your enterprise using the correct set of business architecture components? Your firm

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Business Architecture Components

Business Architecture Model

Most companies start their business architecture journey without a business architecture model, which is clearly a mistake. What is a

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Business Architecture Model

Business Capability Definition: What is a Capability?

  Why do we need a business capability definition? Because there is a lot of confusion about the word "business

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Business Capability Definition: What is a Capability?

Target Operating Model: The Ultimate Guide

The following is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to the Enterprise Target Operating Model covering foundational concepts, design constructs, and

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Target Operating Model: The Ultimate Guide

Business Architect: An overview of the business architecture professional

In this digital and cognitive age, where companies are trying to transform to new realities and constantly evolving paradigms, the

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Business Architect: An overview of the business architecture professional

Enterprise Business Capabilities

Enterprise business capabilities are a foundational construct in business architecture and are a decomposition of what a company does and

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Enterprise Business Capabilities

Business Capabilities Principles

Business Capabilities Principles are a set of essential attributes and perspectives that govern business capability maps. Today, more than ever,

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Business Capabilities Principles

Business Design and Business Architecture

Today, Business Design and Business Architecture are two terms one hears quite often. So let us understand the concepts, the

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Business Design and Business Architecture

Business Architecture Driven IT Operating Model

Business Architecture Driven IT Operating Model for the digital age should encompass a new way of thinking, enabling, and operating

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Business Architecture Driven IT Operating Model

Business Architecture and Strategy

The concept of how business architecture relates to corporate strategy is a perennial conundrum. There are many views and perspectives

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Business Architecture and Strategy

Organization Mapping in Business Architecture

Organization Mapping is one of the views that a business architect builds to interweave capabilities with an enterprise's structural and

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Organization Mapping in Business Architecture

Company Capabilities

Company capabilities or enterprise business capabilities are what a business does and can do and is an encapsulation of end-to-end

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Company Capabilities

Business Capability Modeling – Best Practices for Capability Mapping

What is Business Capability Modeling?  Capstera defines business capability modeling as an art and science to encapsulate an enterprise's essence

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Business Capability Modeling – Best Practices for Capability Mapping

Strategic Business Capabilities

What are strategic business capabilities? How are they different than other categories of business capabilities?   How does a business architect

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Strategic Business Capabilities

Business Capability Analysis: How to analyze capabilities

Business Capability Analysis is different and distinct than business analysis. Business Capability Analysis is about evaluating the capabilities - Capabilities

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Business Capability Analysis: How to analyze capabilities

Business Architecture for Dummies

If you are a business architecture novice looking for business architecture for dummies-type resources, you have come to the right

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Business Architecture for Dummies

Business Capabilities determine Microservices

For an effective and efficient Microservices architecture, it is imperative to let business capabilities determine microservices. In essence, we mean

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Business Capabilities determine Microservices

List of Common Business Capabilities

Is there a list of standard business capabilities which can be a starting point for a capability mapping endeavor? Unfortunately,

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List of Common Business Capabilities

Business Capability Map Definitions

Before making business architecture and capability modeling effective, defining a business capability and a business capability map is important.  There

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Business Capability Map Definitions

Digital Marketing Capabilities

Digital marketing Capabilities are a foundational asset for success in the digital age. Whether it is digital natives or mainstream

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Digital Marketing Capabilities

Marketing Capabilities List

Capstera.com offers a marketing capabilities list for strategic, operational, technological, and architectural considerations. The marketing capabilities list or the marketing capabilities

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Marketing Capabilities List

Marketing Capabilities Overview

In the digital age, marketing capabilities are a critical success factor for every enterprise, and how you manage and harness

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Marketing Capabilities Overview

Banking business architecture is the foundation for transformation

Banking business architecture is the foundation for transformation and is a strategic imperative for banks to survive and thrive.  Banking

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Banking business architecture is the foundation for transformation

Digital Capabilities Model

You will need a digital capability map if your company is embarking on a digital transformation. A well-crafted digital capabilities

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Digital Capabilities Model

Digital Business Architecture led Enterprise Transformation

Digital is on every company's agenda, and digital business architecture is the way to lead the enterprise's digital transformation. However,

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Digital Business Architecture led Enterprise Transformation

Gartner and Forrester Business Capability Models in Real World Scenarios

Most folks search for Gartner and Forrester Business Capability Models online. No wonder, given the stellar reputation of these firms

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Gartner and Forrester Business Capability Models in Real World Scenarios

Business Capability Model Examples

Business capability model examples are helpful for those interested in knowing the structure and composition of a business capabilities map.

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Business Capability Model Examples

Sample Industry Capability model frameworks

Capstera Store offers several digital products, and one of the unique offerings is a set of sample industry capability model

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Sample Industry Capability model frameworks

HR Business Capabilities Model Accelerates Transformation

HR Business Capabilities Model Accelerates Transformation and is an essential tool for HR leaders.  In the dynamic environment of the

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HR Business Capabilities Model Accelerates Transformation

Sample Industry Capabilities Models

Sample industry capabilities models are an idea whose time has come!  (Please note the sample industry capabilities models are a

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Sample Industry Capabilities Models

Business Architecture Diagram

Capstera's Business Architecture Diagram outlines the key steps, deliverables, outcomes, and roles on one simple page.  Business architecture, conceptually, is all

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Business Architecture Diagram