The purpose of the book “Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability into Business Competency “ is to provide an insightful understanding of assessing, developing, and managing organizational capabilities in a structural way. The organization’s competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon. The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, and innovative, to improve business maturity significantly. The capability views enable dot connections and help the business identify “actuality, capability, and potentiality,” build Lego-like capabilities into core business competency and improve the success rate of strategy execution and overall business maturity.

1. Digital Capability
Building Lego-Like Capability into Business Competency
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master” Book Series (17+
Books & “Future of CIO” Blog (3800 + Postings)
WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

2. Title: Digital Capability
Sub Title: Building Lego-Like Capability to Business
Competency
Author:
Pearl Zhu
ISBN: 978-1-387-01233-6
Copyright Date:
June. 2017
About “Digital Capability”

3. Author: Pearl Zhu
Digital Master Book Series
( 17 Books)

4. Summary Digital Capability
The purpose of the book “Digital
Capability - Building Lego-Like
Capability into Business Competency “ is
to provide an insightful understanding
of assessing, developing, and managing
organizational capabilities in a
structural way.

5. Chapter 1 Digital Capability Assessment
A good definition for a capability is
the ability of the business to
consistently deliver an expected result
to the marketplace. A "business
capability" describes what is a business
entity in the organization, what is
their purpose and output to the
enterprise.

6. Chapter 2 Digital Capability Dots Connection
Connecting the dots, both across and
within organizational boundaries, is
the great practice to understand,
map, and develop the unique set of
business capabilities.

7. Chapter 3 Digital Capability Development
Business capability provides a
differentiation and the ability to do things
and finish tasks in a consistent manner. It
is important to take the logical steps for
managing a typical capability lifecycle
which spans need, requirements,
acquisition, in-service, obsolescence, and
disposal.

8. Chapter 4 Digital Capability Portfolio Development
Business capability provides a differentiation
and the ability to do things and finish tasks
in a consistent manner. It is important to
take the logical steps for managing a healthy
digital capability portfolio. Within that
portfolio, a capability will be transient unless
managed and maintained over time.

9. Chapter 5 Digital Capability Maturity
All businesses have certain capabilities,
what matters is maturity, the high-mature
set of business capabilities can make
organizations more adaptable to fulfill
their strategy and drive enterprise-wide
digital transformation.

10. Conclusion Let Capability Shine
Let capability shine. The capability-based
strategy is not only leading to a destination -
the business vision but also cultivating and
optimizing the differentiated business
competency dynamically and proactively, to
further improve business effectiveness and
maturity.

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