The Automotive Business Capabilities Map is a customizable, comprehensive, and in-depth set of business capabilities that capture the essence of what an Automotive firm does. The auto industry capabilities list comprises about 340 capabilities across three levels.

The Automotive Business Capabilities map is a set of multilevel and granular business capabilities which can serve as a blueprint and a structural underpinning for understanding the business of cars, trucks, and other vehicle manufacturing, distribution, sales, and aftermarket.

The Automotive business capabilities model is a must-have tool for business architects, enterprise architects, business and technology leaders, and project teams to fathom the nuances of the core, context, and commodity capabilities of the Automotive industry.

Automotive Business Capabilities Map Deliverables:

The Automotive industry business capabilities model comprises ~340 capabilities and includes the following editable artifacts:

• An Excel spreadsheet with the grouping of capabilities.
• A PowerPoint format with the top three levels presented in a nested visualization.
• A Word document with capabilities in a multilevel list format.
• Capability Definitions (at Level 3)
• Capability KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) (at Level 2)

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Automotive Sector is Transforming – Fast:

The automotive industry is at a critical juncture and must transform to stay relevant and competitive in an ever-changing market. Key strategic reasons driving this need for transformation include rapidly evolving customer expectations, technological advancements, stringent environmental regulations, and the emergence of new market players. By embracing digitalization, focusing on sustainable solutions, and adopting new business models, automotive companies can meet these challenges head-on, drive innovation, and secure their position as leaders in the future of mobility.

As a part of the overall business architecture practice, an automotive business capability matrix will help companies create transformation strategies and roadmaps based on foundational entities – the capabilities.

A Transformation Built on Foundational Building Blocks:

For several reasons illustrated above, transformation is a strategic imperative for companies in the automotive industry. First, the industry is highly competitive, with rapid technological advancements and changing customer demands. Second, global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, and companies must adapt quickly to disruptions to remain agile and competitive. Third, customer expectations are evolving, and companies must embrace digital technologies to deliver innovative products and services that meet their needs. By embracing transformation, automotive companies can improve operational efficiencies, produce vehicles that customers want, shift away from fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine, and gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Automobile makers must create a holistic transformation program to achieve these objectives. Business capabilities can provide the fundamental building blocks for crafting this transformation roadmap. They allow automakers to focus on capability evolution, not project execution.

How to Use the Capability Map for the Automotive Sector?

A business capabilities map is a fundamental and foundational deliverable in the business architecture continuum. The Capstera Automotive capabilities model encapsulates end-to-end aspects of the business with a detailed, multilevel capabilities list.

There are several benefits from business capabilities, including, among others:

• Foster alignment between business and IT using capabilities as an everyday language.
• Capabilities are a structurally sound and internally coherent abstraction of business functions.
• A capability-based roadmap eliminates redundancy and replication and focuses on capability evolution
• Juxtaposing capabilities and systems/applications provide a footprint analysis and can lead to better application portfolio rationalization decisions.

The automotive business capabilities map decomposes components up to three levels. Created by business architects and automotive industry domain experts, the automaker capabilities list is detailed, in-depth, and conforms to the construct of MECE (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive).

Who should use the Automotive Capabilities Matrix?

The Automotive business capabilities matrix is a generic model; hence, it is a starting point, not the final product for companies in the following subsectors. (Please note that a generic map covering multiple areas will not be specific to your sub-sector, and that is where our professional services can help customize and detail the capability model. Or you can modify and tailor it to your needs internally.

• Automakers (Primary)
• EV Manufacturers
• Autoparts Makers
• Heavy Truck Makers

Why Purchase a Business Capabilities Map?

Defining business capabilities from a blank slate takes time and effort and delays time to value. Instead, a pre-built and customizable business capability map helps provide 60-80% of capabilities allowing internal teams to focus on what is missing or unique to their companies.

And the cost is less than an inexpensive team dinner or the loaded cost of 4-5 team members brainstorming for an hour.

And far less than the deliverables consulting firms produce at over $100,000 or more, and compared to that number, the cost of our capabilities models is a fraction (a rounding error.)

Even if you already have a capability map, you could use our version to compare, validate, and potentially include missing capabilities.

A Note About the Artifacts:

• Business Capabilities Matrix: A functional area occupies one box in many business capability maps. Some may wonder why we decomposed the capabilities into 100X or more capabilities. We humbly submit that one box or entry in a one-page diagram is Wall Art, not an implementation tool. Decomposing capabilities into a nested list of granular items will help understand a capability’s depth, breadth, scope, and importance. It is also possible that some capabilities in our matrix may not be relevant to you. Similarly, we may have captured and documented some relevant and essential capabilities of your firm.
• Capability Definitions: The definitions do NOT cover every capability as, at a certain level of granularity, the capabilities are self-evident, and their meaning is self-explanatory. We try to provide definitions at a granular level we think is appropriate. Please feel free to add, expand, or modify the definitions.

Capability KPIs (Key Performance Indicators): We added a few KPIs for capabilities (mostly at Level 2) to get you started. You may not measure these KPIs in your company and have an entirely different set of metrics. Again, use them as a springboard, and not debate the applicability to your firm.

Provisos:

• We cannot accept refunds or returns as the products are digital deliverables.
• Please realize that in some circumstances, a generic capability model may or may not be fully applicable.
• IMPORTANT: Capstera does NOT provide capability definitions or descriptions. Based on experience, we believe most capability names are self-explanatory. Furthermore, when companies customize the capability maps, the context, level, and meaning change.
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