We often talk about aligning IT with Business is a key aspect and that BSM is a very powerful and unique solution to achieve this objective. But what about BSM itself, how do we ensure that BSM is aligned with value proposition that it is supposed to offer? What capabilities & resources do we need to be successful in BSM space? After spending years of finding an answer to this question, I have found a framework which solves this problem. Strategic Capability Network is a framework to explicitly associate resources to scenarios, allowing formulation of a strategic plan that dynamically controls investment in resources as new scenarios are forecast and visited. It is essentially a framework that provides assessment of the costs of supporting resources and the value of strategic positions, and the propagation of costs to supported capabilities and strategic positions, and the propagation of value to supporting capabilities and resources.
This framework allows us to do some retrospection of how WE associate the “Value” that we claim to offer with BSM, with the “Capabilities” that WE have, and “Resources” that WE need. If you are a BSM/SQM offering organization or planning to have BSM as a value proposition, I strongly recommend looking at this framework. If you are an executive evaluating what resources/cultural changes you require, I urge you to leverage this framework.
To anchor the understanding with an example, I have taken some of the commonly claimed value propositions of BSM, associated them to the capabilities and resources in the below diagram based on my experience. You might have a different philosophy to the values and association to capabilities and resources (and you should; thats what makes companies different), but I think this is one of the only framworks which provides this amount of detailed specification on how you trace every asset back to the value you are offering.
Using this framework, every BSM offering organization can create its own unique values and associate them to the capabilities and resources, to align themselves first. I hope this is useful and as they say “Alignment begins at home!!”
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