Developing Effective Business Capability Maps

As an Enterprise Architecture leader, you're expected to be a maven of technology, but in the same breath, the conduit to the business. Many of you are tasked with staying on top of emerging technology opportunities for the business (e.g., social collaboration, mobile, and big data), encouraging innovation, and engaging the customers, while all along keeping the lights on as well. This provides a tremendous opportunity for you to truly partner with your stakeholders and the business to help shape the future business vision for your organization. Successful architects are taking a more structured approach to engage stakeholders and build business support by developing business capability maps.

Business capabilities define what your organization does to execute its mission or support its position in the marketplace. A business capability map — which identifies an organization's capabilities and their relationships — provides the overarching framework for aligned business and IT planning, project and application portfolio rationalization, and communicating IT's value to the users and consumers of IT's services. In this webinar, we:

• Explore how business capability mapping can provide architects with the vehicle they need to secure critical resources and lay the foundations for business support.
• Discuss examples of how other organizations are currently leveraging capability maps.

Agenda:

• What Is A Capability Map?
• Capability Map Uses And Feature
• Developing A Capability Map
• Common Questions And Challenges