Capability-Based Business Model Transformation

Abstract

Any organization in subject of changes in the environment, or having the desire to improve, needs to change their processes, personnel and their use of resources. Changes, may they be called for by external threats or opportunities or internal strengths or weaknesses, take their departure in an organizations existing capabilities. To support change, there is thus a fundamental need to understand and analyse an organizations capabilities in order to perform changes. In this paper we present an approach to support organizational change by the use of a capability based recursive analysis, and a set of improvement patterns. The recursive analysis is based on resource types, and capability sub-types. We illustrate the approach by using several examples taken from the industry.

Capability-Driven Design of Business Service Ecosystem to Support Risk Governance in Regulatory Ecosystems

“…The organisational capability implies that the organisation has the capacity to perform a particular activity in a reliable and at least minimally satisfactory manner. This organisational capability is equivalent to the main capability as expressed by Henkel et al [14].…”

“…The Capability can be seen as the abstraction linking the use of resources and the goals to achieve [13]. It is indeed defined by Henkel et al, as the ability of an organisation to manage its resources to accomplish a task [14] (focus on the resources), and by Stirna et al, as the ability and capacity that enables an enterprise to achieve a business goal in a certain context [12] (focus on the goal). According to España et al, the context is the characterisation of a solution in which the capability should be provided [9].…”

“…Henkel et al in [14] proposed a capability-based approach to support business transformations. It assumes that an enterprise consists in any organisation that generates operation activities funded by stakeholders that do not work for the enterprise.…”

Combining Tools to Design and Develop Software Support for Capabilities

“…In the area of enterprise modeling and enterprise architecture, the concept of capability has been used as a mean to analyse organisations [7], [8]. It has also been used to describe an organization's ability to use enterprise architecture.…”

“…Identification can be done in several ways. For example, an identification based on recursive capability refinement is described in our earlier paper [7]. Moreover, the identification can be based on concept models, process models or goal models [23].…”