A single taxonomy of business capabilities

re: A single taxonomy of business capabilities

Gabriel Morgan — Tue, 16 May 2006 18:01:10 GMT

I have had some experience using MS Motion but only limitted so my comments are part educated and gut feel so beware.

MS Motion is a methodology and tool for describing at the CxO level a given line of business. It comes with some existing business capability taxonomies from past customer engagements with customers in different verticals or domains to reference only. These taxonomies represent past thinking for a specific business vertical or domain to improve productivity and accuracy while executing the MS Motion Methodology. It's up to the MS Motion Methodology that actually creates the business capability architecture for a specific customer's line of business. Anyway, enough about the taxonomies created as these will change and be refined over time as they are reused for different customers.

While reading your blog. I think that you are correct. I wonder if i could take a moment and reply with some thinking I have around the value of such a thing as business capability architecture using MS Motion. I think that there are number of values to be reaped;

First, it is a catalyst for determining quickly where a butiness should focus and look for opportunities to improve. Improvements in business outsourcing opportunities, improvements in business process (using Six Sigma for example), improvements in informaiton and improvements in IT solutions to enable the business.

Second, it provides a simple architectural view the business understands and manages themselves that is ocnnected to the other architecture views. So, when the business makes adjustments to their business capability architecture, usually in the form of setting priorities based on business strategy, the other architecture views are 'informed' through their relationship to the business capability to look for ways to improve which may be one or more changes in the business process and IT environment (applications, information or IT products). So, the business manage their business

There's more I have to say but I'll leave it for later...

Regards,
Gabriel

re: A single taxonomy of business capabilities

Carolyn Andrews — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:03:30 GMT

Hello - I'm looking for a business capability Taxonomy for use at Hewlett Packard - are any of the ones referenced in your blog available?

Thanks, Carolyn

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