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    <p style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #b07d2a; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">Business Architecture &middot; Section 4.4</p>
    <h2 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold; color: #1a2236; margin: 0 0 16px 0; line-height: 1.1;">Capability <span style="color: #1b7a72; font-style: italic;">mapping</span></h2>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.75; color: #5a6478; max-width: 640px; border-left: 4px solid #b07d2a; padding-left: 18px; margin: 0;">This section explains capability mapping and heat mapping. These techniques help organisations organise capabilities in a structured way and assess where stronger focus or investment may be needed.</p>
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    <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: #1a2236; margin: 0 0 14px 0; line-height: 1.25;">What a capability map is</h3>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 12px 0;">A capability map is a structured view of the business capabilities an organisation needs. It helps show the main business abilities in one place so that people can understand the business at a high level.</p>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">It is not a process map and it does not try to show every activity in sequence. Instead, it provides a simple picture of what the organisation must be able to do.</p>
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      <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #1a2236; font-style: italic; margin: 0;">This makes capability maps useful in Business Architecture because they help create a stable and structured view of the business.</p>
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    <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: #1a2236; margin: 0 0 14px 0; line-height: 1.25;">How capabilities are grouped and structured</h3>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 12px 0;">Capability maps usually group capabilities into logical areas. For example, an insurer may group capabilities into customer, product, risk, policy, claims, finance, and support areas.</p>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">The aim is to make the map easy to read and useful for discussion. Some organisations use a simple one level view, while others use more detail with primary and secondary capabilities.</p>
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      <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #1a2236; font-style: italic; margin: 0;">The right level of detail depends on the purpose. For a beginner or senior stakeholder view, a simpler map is often better.</p>
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    <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: #1a2236; margin: 0 0 14px 0; line-height: 1.25;">What capability heat mapping is</h3>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 12px 0;">Capability heat mapping adds an assessment view to a capability map. It uses colour or status levels to show which capabilities are strong, weak, critical, or in need of investment.</p>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">This makes the map more useful for planning and prioritisation. Instead of only showing what capabilities exist, it also shows where attention may be needed.</p>
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      <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #1a2236; font-style: italic; margin: 0;">Heat mapping is often used in strategy and transformation work because it helps link business priorities to capability gaps.</p>
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    <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: #1a2236; margin: 0 0 14px 0; line-height: 1.25;">Using heat maps to indicate maturity, performance, or investment needs</h3>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 12px 0;">A heat map can be used in different ways. It may show maturity, such as whether a capability is well developed or still immature. It may show performance, such as whether the capability is working well or poorly. It may also show investment need, such as where change funding should be focused.</p>
    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8; color: #5a6478; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">The important point is to be clear about what the colours mean. A heat map is only useful if the audience understands the basis of the assessment.</p>
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      <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; color: #1a2236; font-style: italic; margin: 0;">Used well, heat maps help turn a capability view into a practical tool for decision making.</p>
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    <p style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #b07d2a; margin: 0 0 6px 0;">Diagram view</p>
    <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 24px; color: #ffffff; margin: 0 0 28px 0; line-height: 1.3;">Capability map and heat map example<br/>for a motor insurer</h3>
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          <p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: #1b7a72; margin: 0 0 6px 0;">Pricing</p>
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          <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #92600a; margin: 0; opacity: 0.85;">Moderate improvement needed</p>
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          <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #b03a5b; margin: 0; opacity: 0.85;">High priority for improvement</p>
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          <p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: #92600a; margin: 0 0 6px 0;">Customer service</p>
          <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #92600a; margin: 0; opacity: 0.85;">Needs review</p>
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        Green shows strong or stable areas. Amber shows moderate concern or review need. Pink shows high priority for improvement. Purple shows a strategic enabler that may be especially important for future change.
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    <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.4); line-height: 1.7; font-style: italic; margin: 20px 0 0 0;">The first view shows how capabilities can be grouped into business areas. The second view shows how the same capability view can be used to highlight maturity, performance, or investment needs.</p>
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