It's often frustrating to bring a product or service to market before the market is ready to accept it. So I take solace when people with more influence start repeating what we say. It's great to see the analyst community catching up with the practitioners. I'm not sure I'm bought into "Business Capability Architecture" as a term, yet. I have misgivings about using 'Architecture' to describe a business function that is more aligned with Investment Advisor. But I'm not one to find a dark cloud in this silver lining. We've been deploying a capability-based approach to business architecture (TIMM) for the past several years now, formalizing it into a service offering two years ago. In talking with my peers, most of the large consultancies have adopted the language of capabilities. Given the success that we and others are seeing from this approach, it may very well be one of the most effective ways to manage complexity.

AAB

P.S. Trackback to original Forrester Blog post