Business Capability Map Templates: Use a business capability map template to outline and visualize core capabilities. A business capability roadmap template outlines plans for developing and improving capabilities over time.

Illustrate your business capabilities. Assess capabilities to identify gaps between expected and actual performance. Determine what businesses need to do to accomplish their strategy. Open this template to view a detailed example of a business capability map that you can customize to your use case.

Your capability map should not only include your business architecture. It should also include your IT architecture. This ensures that business and IT management are aligned and speaking the same language as your teams work toward the same goals. Review the defined capabilities with key business and IT stakeholders.

There are different types of capabilities you can include into the map. Most maps will only focus on the operational (core) capabilities of the business, which bring clear financial value (for example, if you want to list "product development" as a capability because it is clearly reflected in billable hours).