Where are our business priorities?

The business question Where are our business priorities? helps you to quickly identify business pain points on an enterprise level as well as where initiatives may be needed to close maturity gaps. Alfabet offers a best practice methodology to assess the maturity of business capabilities. A structured evaluation process allows you to measure the maturity and effectiveness of your organization's business capabilities and identify where performance falls short of expectations.

Highlight the business-critical business capabilities or assess the business capabilities based on market differentiators, mission criticality, and revenue contribution for a specified time period. Analyze the business capabilities based on maturity indicators in order to understand the maturity gap as well as evaluate indicators showing the as-is vs. to-be assessment of the business capabilities' digitalization, information, people, processes, and technology. By identifying maturity gaps, you can focus on the areas to prioritize and invest in order to achieve your enterprise's strategic objectives.

The license package Enterprise Architecture Management is required to work with this business question.

The Business Capability Assessment view is a nested matrix that shows the business capability model with information about the number of current and planned applications that provide the business capabilities and the criticality of the business capabilities for the business. Here's how to interpret the information:

  • Each business capability is represented by a nested box in the matrix.
  • Per default, the top 3 levels of business capabilities in the business capability hierarchy are displayed.
  • The first and second level business capabilities are colored based on the filter settings specified via ThreeDots_Black 3-dots button >  Filter  Filter.
    • If Business Analysis is set to Business Relevance is selected, the most critical business capabilities are shades of purple. The less critical business capabilities are shades of green.
    • If Business Analysis is set to Capability Assessment is selected, the business capabilities that should be most in focus are shades of red and dark orange. The business capabilities that require less focus are shades of light orange and yellow. The focus area value is based on the indicators Market Differentiator, Mission Criticality, and Revenue Contribution for each business capability.
    • If Business Analysis is set to Maturity Assessment is selected, an evaluation of capability maturity assessment must be selected in the Maturity Assessment field. The business capabilities are colored according to a high maturity gap (dark red) and no maturity gap (yellow). Indicators are added to the business capabilities to show the as-is vs. to-be assessment of the business capabilities' digitalization, information, people, processes, and technology.
  • Click the ThreeDots_Black three vertical dots button > Show Legend to understand the color coding and indicators

Business capabilities must be in the repository and well-documented. For each business capability, the following should be defined:

  • Business Relevant attribute
  • Capability Assessment evaluation including Market Differentiator, Mission Criticality, and Revenue Contribution indicators. (In the Evaluation view)
  • Capability Maturity Assessment evaluation including the as-is and to-be values for Digitalization, Information, People, Processes, and Technology indicators. (In the Time Series Evaluation view)

Go to the Data Quality page and resolve the issues to ensure that the data is complete.

Go to the Data Source page to review the business capabilities that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.