GC Enterprise Architecture/Business Capability Model


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
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.