The Strategic Portfolio Management Bar Has Moved. Here’s What Clears It.
Most large organizations have a timing problem. Data and dashboards sprawl across the enterprise. But insight rarely arrives fast enough to change outcomes. Forrester’s report, The Strategic Portfolio Management Tools Landscape, Q4 2025, spans more than 20 vendors and ten distinct use cases, reflecting just how complex the planning ecosystem has become. As organizations connect…
Summary of our blog series on Capability-based Planning Our ongoing blog series on capability-based planning has covered a lot of ground. We started by explaining the basic concepts and the value of capabilities, addressed the design of capability maps, how to relate capabilities with your strategy and operating model, explored capability assessment and roadmapping, discussed…
The previous article in this blog series covered how a Capability-Based Planning approach informs the Strategic Roadmap. We covered the Plan and Assess phases of Capability-Based Planning. In this blog, we’ll link the Plan and Assess phases to the Control phase of this process. To measure the effectiveness of change investments, you need a way…
A topic attracting increasing attention from architects and executives alike is: How to use Capabilities to inform strategic planning. The previous blog articles in our series on Business Capability Design and Management focused on “How to assess Business Capabilities” and “How to Measure Business Capability Aspects”. These articles describe the overall four-stage Capability-based planning process…