A structured representation of an organization’s business capabilities to align strategy, products, IT and investments.
A Capability Landscape is a holistic model for mapping and prioritizing business capabilities across organizational units. It supports strategic decisions, investment prioritization and alignment between product and IT roadmaps. The visualization creates transparency about responsibilities, dependencies and maturity, and informs architecture and governance choices.
Number of capabilities that have been documented and aligned.
Time until realized value increase after investing in a capability.
Percentage of capabilities with clearly assigned owner.
A capability landscape was used to identify redundant services and prioritize consolidation projects.
A bank mapped regulatory capabilities to justify investments in central compliance platforms.
The landscape showed which capabilities could be consolidated on a common platform to shorten time-to-market.
Kickoff with stakeholders and goal definition
Collect and consolidate existing information
Model the capability map and validate
Integrate into governance and roadmap processes