I am starting doing some use cases to study, and I am a little confused on when I can use Business Context or Business Capabilities… Is there any way to differentiate them? Is there any naming convention suggested for each of them?
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Conceptual Difference between Business Contexts and Business Capabilities
Best answer by Claire Le Fichoux
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for reaching out to the community.
When defining Business Context you can think of Processes which would describe “how” you do things at your company ( ex:Hire to Retire)
Meanwhile, Business Capabilities would answer to the Question “What”: What does my company do? (ex:Human ressources)
Please feel free to have a look at our documentations sharing best practices about how to model Business Capabilities in LeanIX and the Business Context/Processes.
I wish you a great rest of the day!
+2Good Afternoon,
Thank you for reaching out to the community.
When defining Business Context you can think of Processes which would describe “how” you do things at your company ( ex:Hire to Retire)
Meanwhile, Business Capabilities would answer to the Question “What”: What does my company do? (ex:Human ressources)
Please feel free to have a look at our documentations sharing best practices about how to model Business Capabilities in LeanIX and the Business Context/Processes.
I wish you a great rest of the day!
Thanks very much Claire.
Taking advance on your example… If I create a second level below Human Resources → Hire, accordingly to the Metamodel, it would be a Business Capability, right? But would this be a process part of the Hire to Retire → Hire?
This is the confusion I have.
+2The more granular you go in the hierarchy of your Business Capability, the closer you get to the process.
For instance, a process could end up at level 5 of 6 of a Business Capability hierarchy.
In leanIX we recommend to map Business Capabilities up to 2 to 3 levels of hierarchy, no more.
So Hire will be a level 2 or 3 or your Human Ressources Capability and the Hire to Retire is a process associated to the Business Capability Human Ressources/Hire which can be represented with the relation of the metamodel by default.
I hope it helps you to understand where the differentiation stands.
You could also have a look at this definitive Guide to Business Capabilities here
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