Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Innovativecapabilityandculture

Capability development needs to move from base or competitive level to differentiated level; from fixed to dynamic, transactional to transformational.


A business capability is the corporate ability to build, integrate, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments. Enterprise capability management, consists of a portfolio of capabilities that are used in various combinations to produce business outcomes. 

There are both hard and soft components in building business capabilities; culture is soft, but it's one of the most crucial ingredients in developing differentiated capabilities and thread holding core competencies of the organization to drive transformative changes


Cultural aspect is an intrinsic factor that impacts corporate capability maturity and drives the organization's business longevity: Individually or collectively, capability is the ability to accomplish certain tasks to produce certain outcomes. In order to adapt to changes, many capabilities are dynamic and integral, being built based on a set of scientific disciplines - breaking it down, binding it up, with the right mix of elements to make achievement. Capability matters as it directly decides which levels of complexity you can handle either from decision-making or problem-solving perspective. High mature capabilities can deliver quality results consistently. The right set of scalable, coherent, and impactful capabilities directly contribute to the business maturity.

Culture is a crucial aspect of developing solid business capabilities; as an organization with an excellent culture is arguably capable of giving great results in their competencies. Culture is a corporate habit based on collective mindset, attitude, and behavior. Strong culture fosters a culture of learning and change, nurtures a working environment that inspires open-mindedness, professional excellence, learning agility, and innovation. In the face of frequent disruptions, the highest rated competencies could become irrelevant sooner than what you thought about if the organization lacks the culture to rate and retain the value system beyond the business results. By building a cohesive culture, organizations can continually sharpen their unique capabilities and improve business performance.

Capability maturity and culture maturity mutually reinforce with each other: Every surviving business has certain capabilities, however, only very few high-performing businesses have a high mature level of capabilities that enable them to become leaders in their vertical industry and ensure long term prosperity. The maturity of a business capability would be based on the ability for the companies to deliver on customer needs or to achieve the desired outcome. Culture is intangible, but it is the very glue to bind up all sorts of crucial business ingredients into corporate capabilities. High mature organizations have great cultural characteristics of openness, transparency, collaboration, empowerment, respect for the value of people; all of which help to interweave different business capabilities that enable strategy management. To provide an insight into condition and relationship/ dependency of capability, as well as the overall business capability maturity, business professionals are sufficiently aware of the general condition of the various capabilities and provide input into a qualitative assessment of capability effectiveness, adequacy, coherence, differentiability, resilience, or maturity.

Keep in mind, you cannot impose your own thoughts or habits on someone else, however, you can always inspire, influence, and innovate a digital culture which catalyzes business strategy execution and accelerates digital transformation. Thus, corporate management needs to make an objective assessment of their culture maturity as well as capability maturity, and figure out the interconnectivity in between. They are able to proactively look for opportunities to develop, improve, and build relevant capabilities, as well as design and develop the compatible culture, and allow culture and capability to mutually reinforce each other for improving the overall organizational competency.

Great culture is the foundation to expedite capability development cycle:
Insightful business management should have an in-depth understanding of which traits in culture are needed to encourage change or rejuvenate innovation and what capabilities are critical to build long-term business competency. There are a couple of important ingredients for configuring business capability such as people, process, knowledge, technology, etc. It’s also important to fine-tune soft business elements such as culture for dealing with business frictions, and ensure capability design must fit inside very strict business constraints. Culture matters as it helps to glue up the dynamic capability via lubricating business processes to enhance coordination, integration, and reconfiguration.

Capabilities are the strategic routines by which talented professionals achieve new resource configurations as markets emerge, collide, split, evolve, etc. To capture a vista point of capability view, gather as much input from all the business functions and departments including adherence to industry standards. Capability modeling facilitates the process of identifying and recognizing duplicate capabilities; grasping opportunities to leverage and optimizing existing capabilities. Great culture is the foundation to expedite capability development cycle by nurturing a workplace in which people can grow, experiment, and keep developing collective capabilities. Having a clearly developed capability mapping (culture to capability to strategy) helps to design, build, scale, and optimize a set of coherent capabilities for enabling an iterative strategy execution continuum.

Capability development needs to move from base or competitive level to differentiated level; from fixed to dynamic, from transactional to transformational. Gaining an in-depth understanding of culture provides an angle to see how the people in the company respond and do the work. Business executives are sufficiently aware of the "general condition" of the various capabilities to input into a qualitative assessment, allocating resources effectively, provoking the thoughts on how to mind the capability gaps by updating rules and processes, making the level of balance in fine-tuning capability portfolio to reach the next level of business maturity.



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