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The ideas behind the catalog: what a Business Capability is, how capability maps and value streams are used, and how to adopt a reference model without being bound by it.

• Article 01

  What a Business Capability is, and is not

  A Business Capability names something the organization must be able to do. It is not a process, a department or an application, and the difference is what makes a capability map last.

• Article 02

  Using a capability map

  A capability map earns its keep when it becomes the frame for decisions: where to invest, which applications to keep, where risk sits. The scores that drive those decisions belong to each organization, not to a reference catalog.

• Article 03

  Value streams, value stream mapping and processes

  Three ideas share one word. A value stream shows how value reaches a stakeholder; value stream mapping is a Lean technique for seeing flow and waste; a process is one link in the chain. This catalog's value streams are the first kind.

• Article 04

  Adopting this catalog

  A reference catalog is a starting point. Prune it to what you will own, rename what your organization calls differently, give every capability an owner, and test it against your value streams.