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A capability model earns its keep when something real is mapped onto it. These organizations are fictional, invented for the catalog so the mapping can be published whole: every application, team and disposition is made up, and nothing here describes a real company. What is real is the method, and the catalog ids every row points at.

Fictional · Retail & Consumer Goods
Northwind Harbor Outfitters
A fictional outdoor-goods retailer that grew from a harbor-town store into a chain, bought a smaller competitor, and now runs forty-two applications across stores, online, supply chain, finance, people and technology. Its portfolio has the shape most retailers recognize: a modern storefront bolted to an aging back office, three places an order can live, two customer masters that disagree, and a handful of spreadsheets doing the work of systems. It exists so the catalog's capabilities, data concepts, products and templates can be shown doing a real job on something that is safe to publish.
42 applications · 120 capabilities · 10 overlaps · 6 gaps

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Northwind Harbor Outfitters