GC Enterprise Architecture/Business Capability Model

GC Enterprise Architecture	GC Enterprise Architecture Review Board, GC EARB
GC Service & Digital Target Enterprise Architecture	When to come
Enterprise Architecture Framework	Forward Agenda
Business Capability Model (BCM)	Past Sessions
Exemplar and Reference Architectures	10 Things You Need to Know
Enterprise Solutions	Governance for Digital Solutions
Working Groups	EA and GC EARB Overview – Presentation
Other References

Direction Setting

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
1.0	Legislation, Regulation and Policy Management	The ability to manage legislation, regulations and policies used to establish the direction and framework of the organization and provide the high-level foundations for its sub-organizations in support of where the organization is looking to move towards.
1.1	Legislation Management	The ability to formulate, develop, evaluate and manage legislation through a legislative processes or other governing bodies. Normally, legislation is used to regulate, authorize, outlaw, sanction, grant, allocate, declare or restrict some aspects or elements in order to achieve some results.
1.1.1	Legislation Development	The ability to formulate and develop legislation, that is, to write, to review, to recommend, to author and to advance legislation through a process for approval.
1.1.2	Legislation Implementation	The ability to plan, coordinate and put into effect one or more legislation.
1.1.3	Legislation Evaluation	The ability to observe, analyse, assess and report on proposed or implemented legislation and evaluate whether the revisions maybe required.
1.2	Regulations Management	The ability to develop, evaluate, manage, review and establish regulations for one or more nation, territory and/or group.
1.2.1	Regulations Development and Delivery	The ability to formulate, develop, plan, coordinate, implement and deliver regulations that individuals or entities will need to comply with.
1.2.2	Regulations Monitoring	The ability to observe, analyse, assess and report on the effectiveness of laws and regulations and evaluate whether revisions are required. Refer to 5.1 Compliance Management for the ability to enforce and ensure adherence to laws and regulations.
1.3	Policy Management	The ability to develop, evaluate, manage, and review policies which operationalize legislation or formalize basic principles and associated guidelines. Policies are normally formulated and enforced by the governing body of an organization, to direct and limit its actions in pursuit of long-term goals.
1.3.1	Legislation Review	The ability to review, examine and assess legislation with the intent of possibly changing it or to determine how it could be implemented.
1.3.2	Policy Development	The ability to draft, review, revise, develop, finalize, implement, monitor and advance policies and instruments to ensure they get implemented effectively and to provide guidance and understanding of the policy.
1.3.3	Policy Assessment and Guidance	The ability to assess and interpret the policies, their effectiveness and how they should be implemented via programs.

Direction Setting

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
2.0	Enterprise Planning	he ability to perform cross-cutting or horizontal planning for the enterprise or organization helping it to deliver on its mandates from a strategic perspective. This includes activities such as Strategic Planning, Financial Planning, Program and Service Delivery Planning as well as Integrated Planning. It normally includes planning that includes multiple organizational levels.
2.1	Financial Planning	The ability to determine, develop and describe how an organization plans to meet its mandate and priorities, through activities and allocations, based on the resources it has or those that it needs in which timeframes.
2.1.1	Budget Planning	The ability to determine and develop a budget for the organization. This ability includes the solicitation of sub-organizations, understanding the current priorities, sources of funding and allocation plans.
2.1.2	Strategic Investment Planning	The ability to plan investments and allocations based on the current and future priorities of the organization while considering the many elements of the ecosystem that the organization operates in that could impact the planned investments and allocations.
2.1.3	Treasury Management	The ability to manage debts, investments, liquidities, petty cash, financial reserves and the borrowing framework of the organization or business unit.
2.1.4	Budget Management	The ability to manage the budget allocation within the organization and along with the updates to the budget throughout the course of operations over a given period of time. This includes determining key assessment points; ensuring planning and processes are in place to manage budgets and reassessing and adjusting budgets as required.
2.2	Integrated Planning	The ability to plan strategically across two or more functions in a business or government entity to maximize value while minimizing risk and optimizing results.
2.2.1	Environmental Scan Management	The ability to identify, research, monitor, track events, attitudes, indicators across multiple areas that may impact strategic/business direction, risk, outcomes and objectives.
2.2.2	Enterprise Architecture	The ability to document, govern and recommend how the resources of the organization can be optimally integrated and interconnected to achieve current and future objectives. It normally includes the Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Application Architecture, Technology Architecture and Security Architecture perspectives. All organizations are architected in some way, many are architected by experience, and few have details on how they are organized to operate.
2.2.3	Portfolio Management	The ability to manage, track and oversee the evolution of a portfolio of stakeholders, applications, services, projects, etc.
2.2.4	Strategic Risk Assessment	The ability to identify and evaluate the risks that could affect the business in achieving its mission, vision, mandate, intents, outcomes or objectives. Includes planning, identifying, assessing, understanding, making decisions on and communicating risk issues.
2.2.5	Transformation and Innovation	The ability to analyze and plan for transformation and innovation which involves understanding the implications on two or more business functions within the organization. This includes the design of ideas and review of new business trends and technologies to transform and improve services and capabilities.
2.3	Program and Service Planning	The ability to develop, manage and implement the detailed design for the various programs delivered by the organization.
2.3.1	Program and Service Definition	The ability to define the business needs for each program.
2.3.2	Program and Service Delivery Design	The ability to design programs and services, that is, the activities involved with all aspects of designing a program or service from writing the key performance indicators, eligibility criteria, entitlement criteria, stakeholder obligations, roles and responsibilities, approvals, service delivery mechanism, etc. Also includes the activity of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components related to the delivery of a Program or a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction with the stakeholders.
2.3.2.1	Program Planning and Design	The ability to plan, research and design an organizational or governmental program.
2.3.2.2	Service Planning and Design	The ability to design an organizational or governmental service including planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between the service provider and its stakeholders. This includes activities such as user experience design and research.
2.3.3	Program Alignment	The ability to ensure that programs are aligned to the mandate, objectives and policies of the organization.

Direction Setting

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
3.0	Outcomes Management	The ability to outline how the Programs are to be measured for their effectiveness on the target group within the mandate of the organization. This includes elements such as Governance and Oversight management, Program Evaluation, Performance Management and Reporting Framework Management.
3.1	Governance and Oversight Management	The ability to manage the activities that oversee and protect the organization's resources.
3.1.1	Governance Framework Design	The ability to design a governance framework, that is, to direct, administer and control the activities at all levels across the organization. For example: Organisation structure.
3.1.2	Governance Implementation	The ability to ensure that a governance framework is implemented according to approved terms across one or more organizations.
3.2	Performance Management	The ability to measure the performance of the organization, its programs, functions and/or services.
3.2.1	Performance Framework Design	The ability to develop a framework that will help assess the performance of the organization and/or sub-organizations.
3.2.2	Performance Measurement	The ability to measure the performance of the organization and/or sub-organizations or their services.
3.2.3	Service Quality Management	The ability to measure service quality and to outline the areas designated for the monitoring of delivery quality and efficiency when delivering programs and services.
3.3	Reporting Framework Management	The ability to determine measurement, recognition, presentation, and disclosure of all material items. The ability to design, monitor and evaluate organizational wide reporting such as annual reports, organizational reporting requirements and strategic, tactical and operational reporting specifications.
3.3.1	Reporting Framework Design	The ability to design the framework for reporting.
3.3.2	Strategic, Tactical and Operational Reporting	The ability to develop, compile and deliver the required organizational reports.
3.3.3	Reports Monitoring	The ability to monitor the reporting framework to ensure that it is operating as required and meeting the reporting needs of the organization and sub-organizations. This includes the monitoring of reporting results and determining follow up requirements.

Core

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
4.0	Relationship Management	The ability to manage relationships with various individuals or organizations, that is, to identify and collect information regarding stakeholders*, understand their needs, and maintain an on-going engagement for the purposes of working with or providing services to them. The capabilities in this area include management of the awareness, information and interaction with stakeholders. It applies to individual stakeholders as well as stakeholder segments. *Stakeholder is defined as domestic or foreign individuals, businesses, clients, users, organizations, partners, vendors, service providers, other governments, etc., who can affect or be affected by the actions, objectives and policies of the government or government unit. Note – the focus of this capability area is ‘who’ rather than ‘what’ or ‘how’.
4.1	Stakeholder Awareness Management	The ability to disseminate information designed to increase the public’s and stakeholder’s awareness of programs and services that they are potentially eligible to receive.
4.1.1	Channel Management	The ability to ensure the content of service delivery channels are consistent and that prospective stakeholders can obtain the same information regardless of which channel they choose to use.
4.1.2	Public Outreach Management	The ability to disseminate information with the intent of making potential stakeholders aware of programs and/or services that they might be eligible for as well as what they need to do to apply for a service. This can come in the form of TV Commercial, Mail pamphlet, Marketing campaign polling, etc.
4.1.3	Stakeholder Education Management	The ability to deliver information via all channels available (Click, Call, Consult - as well as mail and various media, etc.) to existing and potential stakeholders so they are informed / educated about potential services they may be eligible to receive from the organization.
4.2	Stakeholder Information Management	The ability to identify and collect information about stakeholders to understand their needs and to maintain an on-going engagement to build partnerships and/or provide services.
4.2.1	Stakeholder Profile Management	The ability to create and manage profiles to facilitate efficient service delivery. An example of this would be the creation of a profile of individuals who live in a certain jurisdiction that due to unique circumstance (natural disaster, weather anomaly, economic event, etc.) would not be subject to penalties as a result of a late Tax Return.
4.2.2	Stakeholder Assessment	The ability to identify and assess the stakeholders and the relationships that are important regarding the work being conducted or the service being offered (as a given stakeholder may hold many different types of relationships with many government organizations).
4.2.3	Stakeholder Risk Assessment	The ability to determine the risks associated with working with and/or delivering services to stakeholders. This includes all levels of risk and is not limited to major items such as fraud or identity theft but can include behavioural risk.
4.3	Stakeholder Interaction Management	The ability to manage interactions with stakeholders across all channels.
4.3.1	Intake Management	The ability to accept, track and manage incoming information and demands. The incoming element can vary widely, that is, it could be a comment regarding a typo on a web site, a request for a grant or for a meeting with the leader of another country. It could also come from various sources, such as another departments, an agency, another level of government, a citizen, a vendor, etc. Note that the intake includes a form of identification (low to high) as the organization needs to track the source of the information or request in order to understand the validity of the intake.
4.3.2	Correspondence Management	The ability to develop, send, track, receive and forward correspondence records used for the purposes of exchanging relevant information with identified stakeholder(s).
4.3.3	Engagement Management	The ability to identify, track, assess need and engage initial and ongoing client service such as advice, referral, information, assistance, appointments, etc. and provide an integrated view and history of these interactions.
4.3.4	Registration and Eligibility Management	The ability to maintain information from an application into a registry that may be used for the purposes of determining whether the applicant meets eligibility criteria to be given the privileges/permissions applicable to the benefits/services.

Core

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
5.0	Compliance Management	The ability to ensure compliance to established agreements, regulations, review the financial or performance management and monitor, check and evaluate various aspects of a developed solution before, during or after Implementation. (Note: This is where it is determined if the Rules and Regulations and Program Intent are followed.)
5.1	Compliance and Investigation Management	The ability to administer, monitor and enforce stakeholders’ adherence to relevant laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, policies, standards, licensing or access and usage requirements that have been established by an authoritative body.
5.1.1	Compliance Risk Assessment	The ability to quantify and act on the potential risk of non-compliance of a subject of interest.
5.1.2	Compliance Assessment Management	The ability to evaluate, monitor and identify that the stakeholders of the organization are acting according to expectations to ensure continued eligibility for the service they are receiving.
5.1.3	Investigations Management	The ability to investigate and ensure a client of a program or service is not attempting to defraud the organization.

Core

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
6.0	Program and Service Delivery	The ability to outline the areas designated for the delivery of the mandated programs and services of the organization and sub-organizations as applicable. These capabilities are for outward facing programs and services such as Employment Insurance, Income Tax Returns, Labour Dispute Resolutions, International Trade, Measures, Intellectual Property, Statistical Reports, Border protection Environmental Conservation and Protection, Natural Resources Management, etc. (Note: this is where the Program becomes operational and serves its intended recipient.)
6.1	Agreements Management	The ability of the organization to negotiate, commit, implement and monitor agreements with other stakeholders.
6.1.1	International Agreements Management	The ability to negotiate, commit and monitor agreements on an international level. Can include all levels of agreements ranging from major trade agreements to import agreements.
6.1.2	Legal Agreements Management	The ability to establish legal agreements with other parties on behalf of the organization.
6.1.3	Negotiation Management	The ability to negotiate an agreement that is bipartisan, ending with a mutually-approved binding agreement.
6.1.4	Stakeholder Agreement Management	The ability to develop, track and manage agreements with stakeholders.
6.2	Public Safety and Defence Management	The ability to provide security or protection, either directly or indirectly, for an entity that has importance to the organization whether for political or non-political reasons, public or economic, etc. This can be in the form of security personnel assigned to protect a person of interest such as a Prime Minister and his/her residence, a foreign Diplomat, a Crown witness in a Witness Protection program or a child, and can also be in the form of restricting person(s), products, food etc. to protect our citizens or our industries.
6.2.1	National Security Management	The ability to coordinate activities to protect the safety and security of our territory, our resources and our people, both at home and abroad.
6.2.2	Policing and Crime Prevention Management	The ability to manage activities related to crime prevention, law enforcement, and the rehabilitation of criminals. It also provides the tools, education and support to effectively reduce, deter and prevent crime in our country, region or district and to deal with crimes that have taken place.
6.2.3	Defence and Combat Management	The ability to coordinate and manage defence and combat in chaotic situations, locally or abroad.
6.2.4	Border and Trade Management	The ability to provide a focused border management agenda and its implementation of cross border arrangements relating to movements of goods and people. It also promotes the safety and economic well-being of our country, territory, resources and people through supporting secure and efficient management of our organizational borders.
6.2.5	Response and Rescue Management	The ability to respond to incidents/occurrences, emergency and rescue situations, in addition to being able to coordinate and oversee the development, deployment and planning (strategical, tactical and operational) for such operations.
6.2.6	Peacekeeping Management	The ability to manage peace in and between nations or communities, locally or abroad.
6.3	Health and Well-Being Management	The ability to care for people by ensuring access to medical facilities, proper care, approved medication, proper hygiene and access to approved and secure products.
6.3.1	Rehabilitation Management	The ability to rehabilitate individuals who have been found guilty of legal/regulation non-compliance. This rehabilitation can be delivered through incarceration, community service or other means.
6.3.2	Medical Assistance Provisioning and Management	The ability to manage, coordinate and provide medical assistance and treatments to staff or other individuals (or living organisms) in need.
6.4	Dispute Resolution Management	The ability to facilitate or broker an agreement between two or more parties who could not otherwise come to an agreement themselves. This may come in the form of a mediation or a conciliation role or that of an arbitrator, which can result in a ruling that may be binding or non-binding -- depending on what the parties agree upon before seeking intervention.
6.4.1	Evidence Collection and Discovery Management	The ability to collect any, and all relevant information and evidence (discovery process) related to a case or file.
6.4.2	Mediation and Conciliation Management	The ability to mediate or conciliate an agreement of a resolution to a dispute between two or more entities that cannot come to an amicable agreement themselves. For example, Labour Mediation.
6.4.3	Arbitration Management	The ability to hear cases from both sides of an arbitration hearing such as delivering a ruling to both parties.
6.4.4	Rulings Management	The ability to manage an arbitration or legal exercise.
6.5	Product and Solution Management	The ability to design, deploy and modify products and their related fees if applicable. Also includes addressing an identified need of one or more target groups; assessing the product effectiveness; and communicating and publishing information about products, including fees, forms, contacts, authority, and other pertinent information.
6.5.1	Product Innovation	The ability to generate ideas and to review new business trends and technologies to improve products, services or solutions.
6.5.2	Product Development	The ability to design, develop and make products available for a variety of stakeholders. This includes the development of standards as well as patentable ideas, nutrition guides, acts or Passports (tangible and physical products in essence). See business capability 7.1.4 Information Use and Dissemination if what you are developing and sharing is not tangible.
6.5.3	Production Management	The ability to produce, to deliver and manage the unit or mass production of a given tangible product (or service).
6.6	Justice and Legal Management	The ability to provide justice and legal management for a jurisdiction. These activities focus on legally advocating for the people of the jurisdiction who are otherwise unable to provide legal representation as well as providing prosecution of individuals who are found to be non-compliant to the regulations (laws) of the said jurisdiction. This capability also includes the provision of unbiased rulings.
6.6.1	Legal Defence Management	The ability to manage legal defence on behalf of the legal entity, individuals or entities.
6.6.2	Prosecution Management	The ability to prosecute, on behalf of the legal entity, individuals or entities accused of committing a crime. For example, a Crown Prosecutor.
6.6.3	Legal Judgement Management	The ability to provide fair, evidence-based and constitutionally sound legal rulings based on information presented. For example, by a Supreme Court Judge, a Provincial or State Judge.
6.7	Authorization Management	The ability to create, manage and issue a unique identifier (e.g. a number, letter, certificate, etc.) that acts as proof of a person, place or object's status. The ability to issue documents or records that recognizes the licence holder at legal level as having the skills to conduct business, or, transactions. For example: Incorporating Oneself/Business, Indian Status, Diplomat Status, Temporary Foreign Worker, Weights and Measures Accreditation, Transportation, Tax-Exempt Charity, etc.
6.7.1	Authorization Generation	The ability to generate a unique identifier (e.g. a number, letter, certificate, etc.) that acts as proof of a person, place or object's status. It includes the ability to create a physical licence or accreditation document (i.e. Indian Status Card) if the program calls for it, as well as assigning the eligible entity the information needed to prove they have been recognized by the legal entity to meet the requirements in their field.
6.7.2	Authorization Delivery	The ability to deliver a unique identifier (e.g. a number, letter, certificate, etc.) that acts as proof of a person, place or object's status. Includes ensuring that the intended recipient of the Licence or Accreditation documents receives it (them) without incident.
6.7.3	Authorization Validation	The ability to validate the unique identifiers (e.g. a number, letter, certificate, etc.), to verify the validity and accuracy of an issued licence or accreditation to ensure the entity who is using these identifiers is in fact the entity that the organization or legal entity has on record.
6.8	Payment Management	The ability to control all incoming and outgoing monetary amounts, regardless of channel, to and from the organization. The capabilities ensure all payments are accurately accounted for, and meet their specified intent.
6.8.1	Adjustment Management	The ability to apply any adjustments that may impact the entitlement of a stakeholder of a program or service.
6.8.2	Payment Processing	The ability to process any incoming and outgoing payments to and from the clients and consumers of the organization.
6.8.3	Reconciliation Management	The ability to reconcile accounts within a program or service where there may have been an overpayment or underpayment.
6.8.4	Recovery and Collections Management	The ability to manage the recovery of monies owed to the organization in relation to penalties, overpayments and underpayments.
6.9	Public Asset Management	The ability to manage the public assets under the supervision of a organization or government, including natural resources such as minerals, lakes and trees, and geospatial assets such as radio waves and telecommunication spectrum, etc.
6.9.1	Environmental Advocacy Management	The ability to manage designated parks, nature reserves, wilderness areas, and wildlife sanctuaries that have particular historic, scientific or social significance. It includes the ability to monitor access restrictions and maintain public amenities as well as the ability to issue permits for commercial or recreational outdoor activities.
6.9.2	Geographic and Geospatial Management	The ability to manage collective data based on geographical, navigational or locational information.
6.9.3	Natural Resources Management	The ability to monitor, protect and preserve natural resources in natural environments, habitats and forms such as land, water, air, wind, energy, weather, soil; and the ability to monitor, protect and preserve natural life forms such as plants and animals in order to preserve the environmental ecosystems.
6.10	Heritage and Culture Management	The ability to maintain a connection to the history of a nation by embracing and raising awareness of the historical events, dates and places as well as cultural diversity of how the nation has evolved.
6.10.1	Cultural Advocacy Management	The ability to advocate the cultural rights of different groups including but not limited to elements such as traditions, knowledge, language, dress, religion.
6.10.2	Heritage Preservation Management	The ability to ensure preservation of natural, indigenous, and historic sites under the supervision of the organization or government.
6.10.3	Cultural Collection Management	The ability to manage the acquisition, accessibility, loan, exhibition and storage, preservation and provenance of records, documents, memorabilia, art, and other materials of national, historical, archaeological, or cultural interest. Producing standards and guidelines for production management procedures to ensure the safety of fragile or highly valuable items. Includes liaison with other institutions about the management of records, documents, memorabilia, art, and other materials of national, historical, archaeological, or cultural interest.
6.11	Immigration, Refugee & Citizenship Management	*NEW*
6.11.1	Temporary Resident Management	**** NEED Definition ****
6.11.2	Permanent Resident Management	**** NEED Definition ****
6.11.3	Citizenship and Passport Management	**** NEED Definition ****

Core

BCM #	Business Domain/Capability	Description
7.0	Compliance Management	The ability to ensure compliance to established agreements, regulations, review the financial or performance management and monitor, check and evaluate various aspects of a developed solution before, during or after Implementation. (Note: This is where it is determined if the Rules and Regulations and Program Intent are followed.)
5.1	Compliance and Investigation Management	The ability to administer, monitor and enforce stakeholders’ adherence to relevant laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, policies, standards, licensing or access and usage requirements that have been established by an authoritative body.
5.1.1	Compliance Risk Assessment	The ability to quantify and act on the potential risk of non-compliance of a subject of interest.
5.1.2	Compliance Assessment Management	The ability to evaluate, monitor and identify that the stakeholders of the organization are acting according to expectations to ensure continued eligibility for the service they are receiving.
5.1.3	Investigations Management	The ability to investigate and ensure a client of a program or service is not attempting to defraud the organization.