Which of the following is a purpose of mapping capabilities to value stream stages?

The primary purpose of mapping business capabilities to value stream stages is to establish a clear line of sight between what an organization does (its capabilities) and how it delivers value to stakeholders (its value streams). This cross-mapping is a critical analytical technique that reveals which capabilities are essential to execute each stage of a value stream. By understanding these dependencies, architects and planners can identify and prioritize the most critical capabilities for investment, improvement, or transformation, ensuring that resources are focused on the areas that most directly impact value creation.

A. This describes a fundamental characteristic of a business capability (being independent of organizational structure), not the purpose of mapping it to a value stream.
C. This describes a service-oriented view of the business, which is a different architectural perspective from the specific goal of capability-to-value-stream mapping.
D. This describes the purpose of creating a business capability map itself (i.e., organizing capabilities), not the specific act of cross-mapping them to value streams.

1. The Open Group

TOGAF® Series Guide: Value Streams (Document No. G178)

January 2017.

Section 4.4

"Value Stream and Business Capability Cross-Mapping

" Page 13: "Cross-mapping value streams to business capabilities identifies which capabilities the business needs to support a given value stream. This cross-mapping provides the context for defining which business capabilities are most critical to the business..." This directly supports the chosen answer.

2. The Open Group

TOGAF® Series Guide: Business Capabilities

2nd Edition (Document No. G211)

October 2021.

Section 4.3

"Using Business Capabilities with Other Business Architecture Disciplines

" Page 16: "Mapping business capabilities to value streams helps an organization understand what it needs to be able to do to deliver value to its stakeholders. This provides the basis for IT investment decisions by showing which business capabilities are most important."

3. The Open Group

The TOGAF® Standard

10th Edition

Content Framework

April 2022.

Section 30.3.2

"Business Architecture Catalog

Diagram

and Matrix Content

" Value Stream/Capability Matrix: The description of this matrix states its purpose is to show "the relationship between value streams and business capabilities" and is used to "determine the business capabilities required to support a value stream." This aligns with identifying critical capabilities for value delivery.