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Bachelor Thesis Julian Feldmeier

Last modified Jul 22, 2020

Analysis of inter-organizational Business Capability Modeling Initiatives

Enterprises are operating in a constantly changing market environment with continuous technological advancements. This necessitates both the focus on their key capabilities to keep their competitive advantage, but also the collaboration with industry partners, sup- pliers, and competitors. Business capabilities allow business leaders to get a holistic, ab- stracted view of the organization and support the alignment of business and IT. Addition- ally, business capabilities can improve communication with business partners. With the shift to collaboration in Enterprise Architecture, this reasons the collaborative identifica- tion and modeling of business capabilities by companies from the same industry. So far, there is a lack of research addressing this subject. This thesis will contribute to filling that gap by analyzing multiple case studies from inter-organizational business capability mod- eling initiatives. In total, 4 case studies are analyzed. The companies involved in the case studies are collaborating horizontally with different collaboration goals. To gain in-depth knowledge, which is necessary for the case study analysis, a literature review on busi- ness capability modeling in a single organization is conducted. Furthermore, the results of this literature review are compared with the results of the case study analysis. The main differences are a divergence of starting points for capability identification, like processes or goals, and a variation in the degree of granularity of the two approaches, where inter- organizational modeling initiatives tend to be more abstract and less detailed as compo- nents like responsibilities, which are included in single-organizational constructed capa- bilities, are missing. Eventually, in this thesis, a reference process for inter-organizational business capability modeling is derived from the case studies, evaluated through multiple interviews, and presented.

 

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