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Does Capability Equate to Process?

Posted on December 14, 2009 by in As Is To Be, Enterprise Architecture, IMM™ Approach

Capability is a measure of the capacity of an organisation to provide a product or service that fulfills an existing or envisaged need to a customer or a market. In this sense, Capabilities are derived by bring together existing functions, data, services, products, technologies, skills, etc. to effect the delivery of the need in the [...]

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Capability vs Requirement

Posted on December 13, 2009 by in Enterprise Architecture

A very common error in world of Enterprise Architecture (EA) or Strategic Enterprise Architecture (SEA) is to define “Capability” as “Requirement”. In order to resolve this confusion we need to take a brief diversion and say that the term “Requirement”, when used on its own, is quite meaningless.  To achieve clarity simply ask “who requires [...]

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