The Human Organization™ Capability Architectures

Architecting capability helps you align capabilities with strategic intent and customer needs.

Interactives has developed Capability Architectures to integrate with Human Architectures in the creation of The Human Organization.™

Capability Knectives™
Where effort has been put in to understand what capability represents, many businesses fail to link it to strategy, products or customer needs.  Yet more value lies in a re-configurable approach to customer demand and market innovation.  Capability Management gives managers the tools to build the customer-valued products and services for the short, medium and long term.

Using an array of tools and a 5-Step Capability Management Framework, Interactives helps you identify and build capabilities, aligning these with both strategic intent and customer needs. Interactives' tools have been developed to help managers identify the capabilities of their firm and select those capabilities for investment, those for maintenance and those for divestment.  Capability Management helps companies understand how to manage the interface between their functions and with other companies in joint ventures and alliances.

• Capability Characteristics Matrix -- Effective capability management depends on an understanding of what defines your capabilities. Identify the mix of characteristics, from human to non-human, from tangible to intangible, from Core to Non-Core, from Being, to Having, to Doing capabilities as a first step to effective management.

• Capability Architecting -- Configure component capabilities from each functional contribution into customer-valued propositions, increasing cross-functional agreement and support, shortening product decision cycles and reducing costly re-working.

• Capability Assessment Tool -- A simple to use, selection tool that guides managers through the issues of current capability, target capability, capability availability, and customer need to help calculate the Strategic Impact of their capabilities.

• Capability Mapper -- A fully interactive, easy to use, 3D mapping tool that provides a visual breakthrough for the analysis and design of capabilities through the on-screen combination of people, processes, technology, structure and assets.

• Capability 4Caster -- Envision future capabilities, the skills and talent required to support them, and the potential product areas/customer need opportunities they address.  Mitigate future risk by creating more robust plans that don't just identify technology trends, but account for changes in the skills and talent profiles of the organization, and the employment marketplace.

Innovation Management
Great leaps for mankind usually involve courageous steps into the unknown. Innovation is the great leap that every company seeks. It is a journey of discovery that requires leaders to create new options by framing the unknown.

Interactives has created a framework that delivers sustainable options through Social Innovation. This minimizes barriers to connectivity and relationships within the organization and maximizes innovation potential.

We can help your organization develop its innovation blueprint:

• Innovative People -- Stretch your people's thinking with tools based on bissociative thinking and working within market-oriented processes. Your development teams will find their creative skills directed and powerfully unleashed.

• Innovation Strategy -- Develop an innovation strategy that matches resources to innovation needs of the marketplace.

• Innovative Processes -- Understand how your culture, values, structure and capabilities affect your ability to design a valuable future, from the perspective of your customers, consumers, employees and shareholders.

Assess your company's innovative capability with our Innovation Quiz.

Thought Leadership
When you engage us, expect new possibilities. We combine your issues with existing practice and the development of new thinking and frameworks.

Interactives has a core value that places thought leadership as a top priority.

• Publications and Case Studies -- Our thought-leadership capabilities are demonstrated through the publication of Interactives' own insights, developments and client collaborative work as well as through examples of our thought leadership in practice.

• Thought-Leading Ideas -- Our thought-leading framework helps you instill the behaviors, culture and processes in your own workplace most conducive for thought-leading ideas to be surfaced, captured and exploited.

• Thought-Leader Network -- Our network of thought leaders extends across the globe, including leading academics and practitioners at Harvard Business School, the IC² Institute, the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University in the U.S. In the U.K., we have relationships with Ashridge Management College, London Business School and Cranfield.

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