White paper on Business Capability
Management
as a community service object architects offers a white
paper, containing a few patterns of Business Capability
Management and also a few links to sources in order to save
you Google time. LInks and sources are contained
in the paper.
From the abstract:
Capabilities are one of the later “hot topics” in
Enterprise Architecture Management. They first appeared
towards the beginning of this decade in the form of
Microsoft’s Motion (now known as Microsoft Business
Architecture) effort to develop a business engineering
method. In the meantime, also other large consulting
companies use capability based methods of all kinds for IT
investment planning and also application portfolio
management.
The method is quite simple and straightforward but still
powerful. Opposed to that, for whatever reasons the
literature on capability assisted enterprise architecture
is still quite scarce. This paper will explain a few of the
basic mechanisms behind capability based modeling in
pattern form. If you have read it, you will be able to
judge, whether capabilities are something that can help
make your enterprise architecture efforts more effective.
The paper demonstrates how to make straightforward use of
capabilities and demonstrates how organizations can profit
from capabilities today, even though formal research on
capabilities is still ongoing.
Download the paper here (PDF)
Selected LInks and Sources
• Bredemeyer, D.; Krishnan, R.; Lafrenz, A.; Malan, R.:
Enterprise Architecture as Business Capabilities
Architecture; Whitepaper; Bredemeyer Consulting, available
via http://bredemeyer.com/pdf_files/Presentations/EnterpriseArchitectureAsCapabilitiesArch.pdf
(link verified 2009-11-12)
• Cameron, B.; Kalex, U.: Webinar (Web Seminar) on Business
Capability Management; Forrester Research & alfabet AG,
June 2009. Available via http://www.alfabet.de/news/veranstaltungen/webinar_driving_productive_it_investment
(link verified 2009-11-13).
• Homan, L.: Enterprise Architecture; Connecting Business
and IT, Talk at GI-Jahrestagung, Munich, September 9th,
2008; available via http://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/file/Events/2008/080909-Informatik-2008/Published/080905-Homan-Microsoft-Enterprise%20Architecture.pdf
• Microsoft Services: Microsoft Motion Heat Mapping Tool:
blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/2034/download.aspx
(link verified 2009-11-14)
• Merrifield, R.; Tobey, J.: Motion Lite: A Rapid
Application of the Business Architecture Techniques Used by
Microsoft Motion; available via http://www.microsoft.com/indonesia/msdn/motionlite.aspx
(Link verified 2009-11-14).
• Ritzenhöfer, G.: SOA-basierte IT-Strategien für Banken,
Talk at GI-Jahrestagung, Munich, September 9th, 2008.
available via: http://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/file/Events/2008/080909-Informatik-2008/Published/080903%20Ritzenhoefer_final.pdf
