##  Define Business Capabilities
Defining business capabilities for your organization requires collaboration between IT and business stakeholders. Follow these best practices:
  * Align scope with organizational goals and timelines: Make sure the business capability effort aligns with your organization's strategic objectives and timelines. If your organization has low maturity, focus on key business domains first instead of attempting a comprehensive enterprise-wide model. Avoid lengthy alignment exercises if your immediate goal is quick cost savings.
  * Educate stakeholders on purpose and value: Communicate the benefits of a business capability model. It provides a clear view of organizational capabilities, streamlines operations, and identifies inefficiencies. Emphasize its importance for enterprise architecture and link it to strategic and operational goals. Engage stakeholders by posing questions the model can answer, and secure senior leadership support.
  * Establish business ownership: Assign ownership of different parts of the business capability model to various groups to ensure comprehensive coverage. Designate individuals who are committed and accountable for maintaining the quality and accuracy of the capability hierarchy and definitions.
  * Embed business architects for guidance: Integrate business architects into the initiative to facilitate the process and mentor business teams. Their expertise guides the development and implementation of the business capability model.
  * Consistently share insights and integrate with corporate processes: Regularly share insights derived from the business capability model, such as investments, costs, and planned initiatives by capability. Ensure other corporate processes, like strategic planning, use the model to map investments against capabilities, driving strategic outcomes. Schedule routine reviews with stakeholders to maintain accuracy and highlight achieved insights.
