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Strategy and Capability Matrix

Mark which capabilities each course of action depends on, surfacing the capabilities many strategies quietly share.

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Strategy and capability matrix: which capabilities each strategy needs

Six courses of action drawn from the three London Grid strategies run down the side, six capabilities across the top. Critical marks a capability the course of action cannot proceed without growing; Needed marks one used as it stands.

Strategy and capability matrix: which capabilities each strategy needs A Strategy/Capability Matrix, the TOGAF Standard 10 Phase B artifact introduced in version 9.2, worked for London Grid Distribution. Six courses of action drawn from three strategies, decarbonise the network, digitalise customer service and improve asset resilience, run down the side and six capabilities run across the top. Critical marks a capability that must grow for the course of action; Needed marks one required as it stands. Data Publication appears in five of the six rows. Course of action Connection Management Network Operation Asset Management Capacity Planning Data Publication Settlement and Billing Decarbonise:flexibility firstCriticalCriticalNeededNeeded Decarbonise:LCT connectionsCriticalNeededCriticalNeeded Digitalise:online serviceCriticalNeededNeeded Digitalise:open network dataNeededNeededNeededCritical Resilience:predictive renewalNeededCriticalNeeded Resilience:storm responseCriticalNeededNeeded Critical: must grow for the course of action. Needed: required as is. Source: TOGAF Standard 10, Phase B artifacts

Read down the Data Publication column: five of six courses of action depend on it, yet only the open data row treats it as Critical. Capabilities that many strategies quietly rely on are funded last and missed first; this matrix catches that at planning time.

At planning time in Phase B, to catch the shared capability that every strategy relies on but none funds.

What you need and what you get

You'll need

  • The courses of action drawn from strategy
  • The business capability map

You'll get

  • A strategy by capability dependency grid
  • Shared capability investment priorities

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Derived from

  • The Open GroupTOGAF Standard 10, Architecture Content: Strategy/Capability MatrixSource

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