# Capability Business Model Canvas

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Language: en

Entity ID: capabilityBusinessModelCanvas

A business model canvas for reusable capabilities, covering value, consumers, ownership, engagement, costs, and benefits without assuming an implementation style.

Category: canvas

## Outcomes

- Viable reusable capability operating model
- Ownership, consumers, channels, partners, and support needs clarified
- Costs and benefits visible before architecture commitment

## How to use

1. Summarize the capability value proposition.
2. Identify consumer segments and engagement channels.
3. Define key activities, resources, and partners.
4. Capture costs and benefits.
5. Clarify ownership, funding, support, and lifecycle expectations.
6. Validate the model with consumers, producers, and governance stakeholders.

## Canvas guidance

How viable, reusable, funded, owned, supported, and discoverable should this capability be?

Summarize the capability value proposition, identify consumers and engagement channels, then map ownership, activities, resources, partners, benefits, and costs.

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Authors: Osaango Ltd

### Capability value proposition

What value does this reusable capability provide to consumers and to the organization or ecosystem?

### Capability consumer segments

Who are the current and potential consumers of the capability, including teams, partners, systems, products, or data users?

### Consumer engagement

How will consumers discover, evaluate, request, onboard, get support for, and provide feedback on the capability?

### Channels

Through which catalogs, portals, marketplaces, documentation sites, support paths, or governance processes will consumers interact with the capability?

### Key resources

Which systems, data assets, platforms, people, standards, funding, and operational capabilities are required?

### Key activities

What must the capability owner and producers do to design, deliver, govern, support, and improve the capability?

### Key partners

Which business, technology, data, security, legal, platform, or external partners are needed to make the capability work?

### Benefits

What business, operational, ecosystem, reuse, compliance, or cost benefits justify the capability?

### Costs

What are the significant costs of building, operating, governing, supporting, and evolving the capability?