J.Stirna - presentation at the Digital Business Innovation Paths Event organised by FutureEnterprise on 8 July 2014 in Brussels, Belgium

1. Capability as a Service in
digital enterprises
FP7 project no 611351, 2013-2016
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University
http://caas-project.eu/
Consortium:
Stockholm University, Sweden
Riga Technical University, Latvia
University of Rostock, Germany
Everis, Spain
Croz d.o.o., Croatia
Portugal Telecom Comunicações, Portugal
SIV AG, Germany
Fresh T Limited, UK
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Portugal Telecom Inovação, Portugal

2. The Challenge – to Change and
Adapt
• Need to know how to do it (ability)
• Need to have the resources
(capacity)
• Need to know when to do what
(context)
• Need to know how to make
choices and why (goals and KPIs)
… and this needs to be designed
Capability is the ability and capacity that enable an
enterprise to achieve a goal in a certain context.
Bakery
Factory

3. • A capability is
– a construct for organization design that allows designing and
developing context dependent business solutions (at the design time)
– a concept that allows motoring and adjusting business delivery (at run-
time)
• Initial work and challenges ahead:
TODO:
Services
Software
development
Ontological
foundations
Tools
Standards
Business
models