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Capability Engineering Manifesto · Discussion draft

Building organizations able to evolve in the age of Artificial Intelligence

This document does not proclaim a finished discipline. It proposes opening a conversation about the need to deliberately design an organization’s capability to learn, act, and transform.

Davide Bussetti · Founder, Lanificio Digitale · An open discussion draft. Free to share with attribution; revisions will be versioned from 0.1 onwards.

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What it is about

Three questions, before any answers

  1. 01

    The question

    When an innovation project ends, what remains within the organization?

  2. 02

    Why now

    Artificial Intelligence accelerates production, but increases the need for context, formalized knowledge, accountability, and governance.

  3. 03

    The hypothesis

    Bringing together the elements that make a capability repeatable, governable, measurable, and able to evolve.

From the document

A few quotations

  • The problem is no longer building software. The problem becomes building organizations able to evolve.

    Capability Engineering Manifesto · chapter I

  • It does not replace the existing disciplines. It integrates them. It coordinates them. It orients them.

    Capability Engineering Manifesto · chapter IX

  • This Manifesto is not a destination. It is the beginning of a conversation.

    Capability Engineering Manifesto · chapter X

Contents

What it covers

  1. The shift in the question organizations ask themselves
  2. Business Capability and Enterprise Asset: definitions and differences
  3. Capability Engineering as a discipline and its value chain
  4. The Innovation Program as the shape of the investment
  5. The life cycle of an Enterprise Asset
  6. The Capability Factory
  7. The principles of the discipline
  8. The lineage: Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Capability Engineering
  9. An open challenge and an invitation to contribute
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The elements

What the discipline brings together

  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Processes
  • Data
  • Technology
  • Relationships
  • Governance

The Manifesto is a first draft: it can be challenged, corrected, and extended. It is free to share with attribution, and revisions will be versioned.

An open discipline

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Objections, additions, field experience

The document invites businesses, universities, research centers, professionals, and innovators to quote, discuss, and develop these ideas. If you have an objection, experience from the field, or a useful reference, write it here: it is read and considered for the next revision.

This path is separate from a demo request: here the subject is the document, not the platform.

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