Capability management in business quickly or would not be very different from competitors' capabilities). Enabling capabilities are distinguished from supplemental capabilities in that they are required, but do not necessarily add value to core capabilities. A business capability is "what" a company needs to do to execute its business strategy (e.g., enable ePayments, tailor solutions at point of sale, demonstrate product concepts with customers, combine elastic and non-elastic materials side by side, etc.). Another way to think about a capability is that it is an assembly of people, process and technology for a specific purpose. Capability Management is the active management, over time, of
Business process management and scholars frequently discuss BPM from one of two viewpoints: people and/or technology. BPMInstitute defined Business process management as: The Workflow Management Coalition, BPM.com and several other sources use the following definition: The Association of Business Process Management Professionals defines BPM as: Gartner defines business process management as: It is common to confuse BPM with a BPM suite (BPMS). BPM is a professional discipline done by people, whereas a BPMS is a technological suite of tools designed to help the BPM professionals accomplish their goals. BPM should also not be confused with an application or solution developed to support a