SkyAmbit’s Business Capabilities Inventory is an invaluable tool for organizations to identify strengths and weaknesses, prioritize investments, and drive business transformation.

Instant dashboards provide an overview of current, ambitioned, and target capabilities, as well as workforce development progress.

Aligning strategy and execution: A capabilities inventory provides a clear understanding of the resources and capabilities that are required to execute the organization’s goals and strategies. This helps organizations to align their plans and initiatives with their capabilities, and to prioritize investments in areas where they need to build or improve their capabilities.
Identifying strengths and weaknesses: By evaluating the current state and ambition of their capabilities, organizations can identify their strengths and weaknesses, and identify areas where they need to improve. This can help them to make informed decisions about where to focus their resources and efforts, and to avoid investing in areas where they are unlikely to be successful.
Improving efficiency and effectiveness: A capabilities inventory can help organizations to streamline processes and systems, and to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness. By understanding their capabilities and the inter-relationships between them, organizations can optimize their operations and reduce waste and inefficiencies.
Managing risk: A capabilities inventory can help organizations to identify and manage risk by evaluating the potential vulnerabilities in their operations and systems. By understanding their capabilities, organizations can prioritize investments in areas that are critical to their success and that are most at risk.
Supporting transformation: A capabilities inventory provides a foundation for organizations to support business transformation by providing a clear understanding of the capabilities that are needed to support the organization’s evolving goals and strategies.

Current Dashboard:

The current state of a company’s capabilities will depend on a variety of factors, including its size, industry, location, and competitive landscape. Companies can use self-assessment to identify strengths and short-comings, opportunities for improvement, and potential threats, which can inform up-skilling and staffing the future workforce.

Ambition Dashboard:

Assessing the ambition of employees to up-skill requires evaluating a range of factors related to employee engagement, performance management, learning and development, recognition and reward, and organizational culture. By understanding the current state of these factors, a company can develop strategies to encourage and support employee up-skilling.

Improvement Dashboard:

Having a dashboard to track a company’s overall capabilities and progress towards improvement can help to provide visibility and insight into the areas that require attention. By regularly tracking these metrics and developing targeted improvement plans, a company can work to continuously enhance its capabilities and maintain a competitive edge in its industry.

Target Dashboard:

When setting targets for business capabilities in 2-3 years from now, it’s important to consider the company’s overall strategic goals and the competitive landscape in its industry. By setting ambitious but achievable targets and regularly tracking progress towards these targets, a company can work to continuously improve its capabilities and stay ahead of the competition.

Business capabilities can be a useful lens for answering these types of critical business questions. By identifying and assessing the capabilities that are needed to support the organization’s goals and strategies, leaders can make informed decisions about where to invest in people, technology, and other resources.

For example, if an organization is seeking to drive innovation, it may need to invest in capabilities such as research and development, design thinking, or problem-solving skills. On the other hand, if the goal is to commoditize certain processes or products, the organization may need to focus on efficiency and cost-cutting capabilities such as automation, standardization, and process optimization.

Overall, an effective business capability model can help organizations make informed decisions about where to focus their efforts and resources in order to achieve their goals and drive business transformation.