Understanding of Business Capability Is the Key to the Architecture of Business Practice

An Architecture of Business concept defines and utilises a connotation of business capability to deliver, to do something in the continuously changing market, i.e., tomorrow and then after. The architecture of a successful corporation hooks into the future because current knowledge and skills can become obsolete by the EOD. The article defines the Capability benefits via business functionality and information; just data without business meaning is useless.

How BUSINESS CAPABILITY may be built

Describes a process of bulding Business Capabilities for the Architecture of Business organisation. The Business Capabilities are abilities of the business to deliver a certain result by a given time in a defined execution context. IT and EA are just resources for this delivery.

BUSINESS CAPABILITY and API ECONOMY: beware of a man-trap

The fundamental meaning of business capability can be explained as an ability to do/build/construct/gain/provide/deliver certain business value in the given business context. Microservices and API constitute an API Economy. According to the Amazon’s “AWS Service Terms”, October 16, 2017, it denies real support.while all problems with the data files are always claimed on the API-customer organisation.

BUSINESS CAPABILITIES: reflection of Wardley Diagrams at Corporate Business level

One of the major tasks in the Practice of the Architecture of Business (AoB) is an understanding of the corporate strategy by decomposing the strategic goals and objectives into fine-grained sub-tasks. In other words, this structure defines what the company should have done in order to reach its strategic goal. This method focuses on the business needs; in contrast, looking similarly, Wardley’s Value Chain Mapping focuses on the user need. In a dynamic market and several user bases, this becomes a business scalability problem.

Heat-mapping value: Identifying where to invest effort for Operating Model Design

The first time published on MARCH 26, 2018, with Kirill Derevenski In the earlier article we spoke about placing value delivery chains at the heart of a Target Operating Model. We continue in this post with clear identification of necessary prerequisites for subsequent detailed operating model design using the Operating Model Canvas methodology. What actually creates value? …

Minefield of IT’s Capability Mapping Method

One of the major problems that separate corporate business from corporate technology is not only in the functions they have and represent in the corporate structure but also in the languages these two realms use. Mimicking the term names leads rather to misinformation because the semantics of similarly sounding terms may be basically different.

Steps of Transition to an Organic Business

The first time published on MAY 27 – JUNE 8, 2018 Understanding the Subject: Part 1 Introduction In our previous articles “The Major Principles of the Organic Business Design” and “Results of Applying Principles of Organic Business Design” we discussed how an Organic Business organisation looks like from inside. This article aims to explain how to …

Results of Applying Principles of Organic Business Design

It demonstrates the results of applying Principles of Organic Business Design to the organisation of business. A few of Organic Business Organisation theory definition elements require a new understanding and reinterpretation. A real-world example for one of the retail giants is analysed.