Introduction
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Alternatively one could choose to define capability from the architectural unification approach POLDAT
- Process (business processes)
- Organisation (structures)
- Location (Geographical information)
- Data (models, life cycles, security etc)
- Application (software, security, interoperability etc)
- Technology (infrastructure)
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- maybe there is a company that is capable of doing all of these things for me
- if I clearly define and price each capability I will be able to go to market and buy these in as building blocks
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- if you go with option 1 above, you can leave it to the company to ensure that they have a project management capability to pull the other capabilities together to deliver the home
- if I go for option 2, I will need to understand each of the capabilities in order to ensure that they work in a coordinated manner. In other words and using POLDAT (what is the organisational structure I need to have in place to ensure that these capabilities function as one)
So we then see that we start to have see the emergence of a complex matrix of capabilities to deliver our goal
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