You might perhaps describe this piece as “praising with faint damns” – but oh, it’s so nice to be able to say something nice for once about The Open Group! Okay, yeah, maybe a bit unkind to start this that…
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Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Tag: capability
Open Group on business-capabilities – a quick review
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business capability, capability, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Open Group
Why service, function and capability
Ah definitions, definitions – so many to choose from! But somehow, only a limited number of labels to go around, to share out amongst all those definitions? Which means that people end up using the same labels for different things,…
Learning and the limits of automation
One of the themes that came up in the Vlerick Business School session on EA-roadmaps was around how long it takes to learn how to develop the skills needed to do enterprise-architecture – and how and why to learn them,…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: automation, Business, capability, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, knowledge management, learning, narrative knowledge, risk, skills, skills development
Putting capabilities to use
All that discussion about capabilities – yeah, great, fine. But how do we use them? How do we use this notion of ‘capabilities’ in designing our business-models and suchlike? I was kinda reminded about this from another direction yesterday, in a great…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business model, capability, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, methodology
Definitions on capability
This one’s really straightforward: it’s just a follow-up to a public request on Twitter by Bizzdesign consultant Bas van Gils: basvg: I am looking for definitions of these concepts, please help: capability, capability based planning, capability increment, capability map I’ve…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: capability, Enterprise architecture, taxonomy
Function, capability and affordance
What can our business-capabilities do? As our business-needs and business-context change, what options do we have to re-purpose and re-use those capabilities? These questions came up for me from a brief yet excellent LinkedIn thread on affordances. To me that thread…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: affordance, Business, business architecture, capability, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, function
Service, function and capability (an addendum)
How can we clarify the confusion over service, capability and function in enterprise-architecture models? Andrew Marosy made a comment to my previous post on this that really needs to be brought out here in full: You can also visualise a…
Service, function and capability (again)
How can we distinguish between service, capability and function in enterprise-architecture models? This is one of those perennial questions that keeps returning time and time again, and it’s one of the key confusions that Enterprise Canvas aims to resolve. But…
On function, capability and service
In enterprise-architecture, how do we disentangle business-function, business-capability and business-service? This one’s for Adam Johnson, particularly as a follow-on to his comment to the previous post ‘More on EA and asset-types [Part 4]‘: I perceived your usage of function to…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: asset, capability, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, function, service, structure, taxonomy
More on EA and asset-types [4]
What are the different types of assets that we need to deal with in an enterprise-architecture? What implications arise across the architecture from the differences between these types? In the first post in this series, we identified four distinct asset-dimensions: physical: physical…
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: asset, capability, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, event, function, location, service, structure, taxonomy
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