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Current Capability Model

Map what your organization can do today: the business capabilities that deliver value, their current maturity, and where gaps exist.

O-M-ARC-CCM

Current Capability Model

Map what your organization can do today: the business capabilities that deliver value, their current maturity, and where gaps exist.

O-M-ARC-CCM

Introduction

Capabilities describe what your organization does, independent of how it’s organized or what technology it uses. This model provides a stable foundation for understanding current strengths and gaps, forming the basis for target state design.

Phase

Map

Lens

Architecture

Purpose

Document current business capabilities and maturity

Output

Current State Capability Model

Who’s Involved

Enterprise architects, business analysts, domain experts

Duration

4-8 hours

Steps

  1. Identify level 1 capability domains aligned to value creation

  2. Decompose into level 2 and level 3 capabilities

  3. Assess maturity of each capability (1-5 scale)

  4. Identify capability owners and stakeholders

  5. Document dependencies between capabilities

  6. Highlight gaps and underperforming capabilities

Template

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Get the collaborative templates we use with clients

Skip the blank page. Every Orbit Method tool has a working canvas behind it: structured, labelled and ready to fill in with your own organisation. We’re preparing a sample set as FigJam files. Subscribe and we’ll send it as soon as it’s ready.

We’ll email you when the sample lands, plus template updates and new episodes. Unsubscribe anytime.

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©2026 Orbit Method™

By Shaped + SIS Decisions + Milpress

©2026 Orbit Method™

By Shaped + SIS Decisions + Milpress