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The Capability Management Process: Finding Your Way into Capability Engineering

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Business Architecture Management

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals ((MANAGPROF))

Abstract

Enterprises reach their goals by implementing strategies. Successful strategy implementation is affected by challenges that an enterprise has to face and overcome. Enterprises require specific capabilities in order to be able to implement strategies in an effective way and achieve desired results. Thus, the demand for a systematic capability management approach is growing. This chapter, therefore, introduces a general process for identifying, improving, and maintaining capabilities in an enterprise. This is based on an integrated capability approach that results from a number of investigations performed over the past years. Comprised of four building blocks, the capability management process represents a flexible “engineering” approach for capability catalog developers and designers.

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Notes

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    Sources included the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), the Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC), the Journal of Management, and the Strategic Management Journal, for example.

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    It should be noted that both the selection of relevant sources and the method of analysis [in this instance a literature review (Kitchenham and Charters 2007)] have an influence on the results.

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    The number in brackets denotes the number of papers the concept appears in.

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    Again, the numbers in brackets indicate the frequency of the elements in the analyzed literature.

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    See http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik-rostock.de

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    See http://caas-project.eu

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    See http://www.opengroup.org

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Wißotzki, M. (2015). The Capability Management Process: Finding Your Way into Capability Engineering. In: Simon, D., Schmidt, C. (eds) Business Architecture Management. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14571-6_5

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