SOLUTION BLUEPRINTS

VALUE STREAMS TO CAPABILITY MAPPING

VALUE STREAMS

Business Architecture

Value Streams are end-to-end flow of activities depicted from a Stakeholder perspective (the"HOW")

CAPABILITIES

Capabilities are what a company does and can do (the "WHAT")

Value Stream to Capability Mapping is a strategic approach in business architecture and enterprise modeling. It links value streams (representing how value flows to customers) to capabilities (representing what an organization needs to do to deliver value). This alignment ensures that operational capabilities directly support business outcomes and customer value delivery.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Understand Value Streams
  • Define Value Streams: Identify the core value streams, which are end-to-end sequences of activities delivering value to a customer or stakeholder. Examples include "Order Fulfillment," "Customer Onboarding," or "Product Development."
  • Key Steps in the Value Stream: Break the value stream into discrete stages or steps, focusing on how value is incrementally added.

    • 2. Catalog Capabilities
  • Identify Capabilities: List the business capabilities (what the business needs to do) required to execute the value stream. Capabilities are typically grouped into categories like operational, strategic, or enabling.
  • Capability Maturity: Assess the maturity level of each capability to understand its current state versus the desired state.

    • 3. Map Value Streams to Capabilities
  • Align Activities with Capabilities: For each step in the value stream, identify the supporting capabilities. This alignment ensures that each activity in the value stream is backed by the necessary resources, processes, and technology.
  • Identify Gaps: Highlight capabilities that are missing or underperforming, creating bottlenecks or inefficiencies in the value stream.

    • 4. Prioritize Improvements
  • Assess Impact: Evaluate how improving specific capabilities will enhance the value stream's performance and customer outcomes.
  • Strategic Alignment: Focus on capabilities most critical to achieving organizational goals.

    • 5. Visualize the Mapping
  • Use Tools: Represent the mapping using diagrams, heat maps, or flowcharts. For example: A flow diagram can illustrate how specific capabilities contribute to each step in the value stream.

    • BENEFITS OF VALUE STREAM TO CAPABILITY MAPPING
  • Improved Alignment: Ensures that operational focus is aligned with strategic priorities.
  • Enhanced Efficiency: Identifies redundancies and gaps in processes and capabilities.
  • Informed Investment: Guides resource allocation to enhance high-impact capabilities.
  • Customer-Centric Operations: Improves the ability to deliver value to customers by focusing on the activities and capabilities that matter most.

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    The Steps

    1. Align Business Architecture with Enterprise Architecture
    2. Establish Business Architecture as a required input into Solution Architecture
    3. Establish traceability from business objectives and value perspectives through requirements and solution deployments
    4. Frame the Solution Architecture by Value Streams, Capabilities and Stakeholders
    5. Identify required Enabling Capabilities; map to Application Capabilities

    Components

    Solution Blueprints bring together
    ✔Industry Frameworks
    ✔Value Streams (and underlying Business Processes)
    ✔Capabilities
    ✔Platform Enablers
    ✔APIs and Data Sources
    ✔Solutions (Groups of Capabilities)