The new book on „Capability Management in Digital Enterprises“ planned for summer 2017 will be published by Springer Verlag. The contract between Springer and the two editors, Janis Stirna and Kurt Sandkuhl, was signed. The content of the book will consist of approx.. 20 chapters and cover the field of capability management.
Abstract (preliminary):
The notion of capability has a growing presence in the current business & IT alignment and IS-development frameworks spanning from more business-oriented views, such as Business Architecture and Business Modeling, to more IT-oriented views represented by Enterprise Architecture (EA), and enterprise modeling (EM). In brief, the emergence of the use of the capability notion seems to have three key motivations: (a) in the context of business planning, it is recognized as a fundamental component to describe what a core business does and, in particular, its ability of delivering value that is relevant to the business strategy; (b) in IS development, it makes IS designs more accessible to business stakeholders by enabling them to use the capability notion to describe their requirements; and (c) it supports the configurability of operations on a higher level than services, business process, resources, and technology solutions.
The book offers practical advice for how to design solutions for organizational purposes based on the notion of capability. The backbone on which the book’s content is based is that of the Capability Driven Development methodology. It is modular and based on the following key method components: Enterprise Modeling (EM), context modeling, variability modeling, adjustment algorithms, and patterns for capturing best practices. The current thrust of the capability driven approach to IS development is to make information system designs more accessible to business stakeholders by enabling them to use the capability notion to explicate their business needs especially concerning context dependent variability, patterns, and adjustment algorithms. In essence, this integrates two main dimensions of organizational development - strategic and operational as well as design-time and run-time. The CDD approach is modular and notation independent.