New key concept in TOGAF 9 presented by the CEO of Architecting the Enterprise and awarded contributor to the TOGAF, Serge Thorn.
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2. A conceptual framework allows for business planning under uncertainty by emphasizing flexibility,
robustness and adaptive capability
The analytical framework provides a way to assess business capability options at the operational level
and choose among capability alternatives
A building block approach allows us to define, develop and test individual capabilities within their own
business domains
Capabilities them can be developed and evaluated within smaller architecture domains from phase B to phase
D, and then later combined to describe joint forces capabilities in Transition Architectures identified in phases E-
F.
Capability Based Planning also revolves around the establishment of the capacity and ability to execute a
designated set of generic tasks, bringing enormous help when entering the Opportunities & Solutions and
Migration Planning phases. It is an effective way of selling the value of Enterprise Architecture to the business,
without being too much theoretical…
Serge Thorn, CIO
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