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Business Capabilities Engineering™

AgileLayer's Business Capabilities Engineering™ methods and software tooling enable managers and planners to ensure that the enterprise's Business Capabilities model and roadmap are optimally aligned with its Business Strategy, Process, Goal/Value, Planning and IT Business Service models. It ensures that Business Capabilities and related assets are appropriately defined and roadmapped in the context of enterprise-wide concerns, and provides for the analysis and optimization of the relationships between Business Capabilities, Strategies, Goals/Success Measures, Processes, Assets, Programs/Projects, and IT-based Services.

Answers You're Looking For: Business Capabilities Engineering™ enables enterprises to answer key questions:

  • What Capabilities are most critical to our core Business Goals and Strategies?
  • What is our Capabilities Roadmap and how are we managing it?
  • What are our key Roadmap investments, dependencies and risks?
  • Where, how and when should we leverage 3rd party Capabilities?
  • How do we set up a Business Capabilities Engineering™ Program Office?
  • What industry models, tools and best-practices can we leverage?

Value: Business Capabilities Engineering™ enables enterprises to:

  • Operationalize the linkages between Business Strategy, Capability, Goal/Value, Planning, Project and Service models
  • Accelerate delivery of strategic Business Capabilities and speed Business Reconfiguration and Differentiation initiatives
  • Improve the precision and ROI of M&A and Business Outsourcing initiatives
  • Improve the identification and packaging of new market-facing Business Services
  • Model and manage the Business Capabilities Roadmap in the context of Business Strategies, Processes, Plans, Projects, Goal/Value Metrics, and IT-based Business Services
  • Connect Executives to operational implementation via a highly visible, value-centric Roadmapping mechanism
  • Bolster Business and IT groups ability to support the planning, delivery and management of enterprise Business Capabilities
  • Enhance Business-IT collaboration and alignment through joint Business Capabilities and IT Services modeling and associated portfolio & product-line management
  • Replace spreadsheet, PowerPoint and paper-based approaches with a powerful, multi-user Rich-Internet-Application

Solution Distinction: AgileLayer's Business Capabilities Engineering™ software provides a highly distinctive and compelling solution:

  • Purpose-Built: Purpose-built for Business Capabilities Engineering™ (designed from the ground up to specifically address capabilities-centric business modeling, planning and management needs)
  • Modern: Provides new and improved approach, methods and technologies (not a re-hash of old technologies, tools and methods)
  • Application vs. Tool: Provides an application solution, not a tool (this out-of-the-box solution eliminates delays, costs & miss-steps associated with tools-based approaches)
  • Business User focused: Highly usable by, and valuable to, a wide range of Business users (designed from the ground up for Business users)
  • Capabilities centric: Capabilities are the solution's central metaphor
  • Roadmap focused: Strong focus on & support for meaningful Roadmapping (purpose-built for flexible, usable, high-value Roadmapping)
  • Methods and Best Practices: Contains substantive methods and best practices (accelerates adoption and eliminates miss-use)
  • Governance Model: Includes a robust, pro forma Governance Model (provides a fast-track to a robust, best practices driven Governance Model)
  • Business Services Methodology: Integrated module for Business Services Identification, Specification and Portfolio Planning (provides linkage between Capability modeling and Service-oriented Architecture)
  • Easy to Implement: Browser-based Rich Internet Application and a Proof-of-Concept Program (accelerates time-to-value, with nominal complexity and resource requirements)
  • Consulting Enablement: Array of supporting consulting services, such as Assessments, Mentoring, Modeling, and Governance (maximizes the value of the AgileLayer solution)

Proof-of-Concept: AgileLayer provides a Proof-of-Concept (POC) program to enable prospective customers to trial the AgileLayer Business Capabilities Engineering™ software and associated methods and best practices. As part of the POC, AgileLayer provides training, a readiness assessment using AgileLayer's Business Capabilities Engineering™ Maturity Model, pre-loading of customer metadata into the AgileLayer tool, and mentoring on planning and implementing a Business Capabilities Engineering™ discipline. To learn more about the POC program, please register for a briefing and demonstration on the Business Capabilities Engineering™ tool.

The Business Capabilities Engineering™ methods and best practices are delivered as a stand-alone Capabilities Modeling and Management system and as an integrated module within AgileLayer's Business Services Methodology and Master Planning system. Please register for a whitepaper and/or a briefing and demonstration of the Business Capabilities Engineering™ tool and related AgileLayer consulting services.