Manage your business capabilities

Business capability management helps organizations understand what they do, how well they do it, and what it costs to keep doing it. To get started, identify and prioritize the business capabilities that are most critical to your strategic goals—these are the functions that differentiate your business, drive value, or carry the highest operational risk. Focus your analysis on these core capabilities to guide investment, transformation, and optimization efforts.

Next, examine which applications and projects contribute to the cost and performance of each capability. By linking capabilities to the supporting applications and initiatives, you can uncover inefficiencies, overlaps, or gaps in coverage. Assess the impact of your application landscape on business capabilities to understand how technology enables—or constrains—your operations. This insight allows you to make informed decisions about rationalization, modernization, and strategic alignment across business and IT.

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Identify and prioritize the business capabilities that are most critical to your business via the business question What should we be focusing on?
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Understand which applications and projects contribute to the cost and performance of each part of the business via the business question What are our cost drivers?
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Look at application scores and decide where to focus rationalization activities via the business question What are our investment/retirement candidates?
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Assess the impact of your application landscape on business capabilities to understand how technology enables your operations via the business question What is our application landscape?
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Examine the dependencies between the organizations and business capabilities and identify potential redundancies or gaps in future business support in the business question What is our target architecture?
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Review the dependence of business on IT and identify the most important IT capabilities based on their support of critical business capabilities with the business question What is our business-IT alignment?
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Review your business' reliance on locations and servers in order to mitigate risk before an IT outage occurs by means of the business question How will IT failure impact our business?
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Identify potential risks to the business due to the discontinuation of technology support via the business question Where do we have technology risk?

To work with Alfabet 's business questions focusing on business capability analysis, you must have a license to IT Transformation Server - Enterprise. The use case Business Capability Management must be enabled. This use case enables the following business questions:

  • What should we be focusing on?
  • What are our cost drivers?
  • What are our investment/retirement candidates?
  • What is our application landscape?
  • What is our target architecture?
  • What is our business-IT alignment?
  • Where do we have functional redundancies?
  • How will IT failure impact our business?
  • Where do we have technology risk?