Business Capability Assessment · Free · 12 questions

Can you trace your strategy to the systems that deliver it?

Most organizations plan in departments, buy in projects, and reorganize in despair — because nothing maps strategy to what the business actually does. Score your organization on the discipline that fixes it: a capability map with real ownership, measurement, and investment authority.

Takes about 4 minutes. Answer honestly — the score is only useful if it's true.

The assessment

Rate each statement as it is today — not where you plan to be.

0 of 12 answered

1. We have a documented business capability map — the stable set of things the business does, independent of org chart and systems.
2. Executives outside IT recognize the map and use its language — planning conversations reference capabilities, not just departments and projects.
3. Every major capability has a named business owner accountable for its performance — not just an IT contact.
4. Our systems and applications are mapped to the capabilities they support — we can answer "what runs this?" for any capability.
5. The map shows us where multiple systems serve the same capability — and where critical capabilities have no adequate support at all.
6. Capability performance is measured — we know which capabilities are strong and which are weak from evidence, not opinion.
7. Investment follows the map — funding is prioritized toward capabilities that are critical to strategy but weak today.
8. When strategy changes, we can trace the impact — which capabilities are affected, and therefore which systems, data, and teams.
9. Reorganizations don't invalidate our architecture — documentation is anchored to capabilities, so reporting-line changes don't reset the map.
10. New initiatives state which capabilities they improve before they are funded — no capability case, no budget.
11. The map is maintained — someone owns it, and it's reviewed and refreshed at least annually, not rebuilt from scratch every few years.
12. Data is mapped to capabilities too — we know which capability is authoritative for each core business entity, like customer or order.