The detailed assessment of business capability gaps occurs in Phase B: Business Architecture. The primary objective of this phase is to develop the Target Business Architecture that shows how the enterprise will realize the Architecture Vision. A critical step within Phase B is to conduct a formal gap analysis between the Baseline and Target Business Architectures. This analysis identifies the specific business capabilities that need to be created, augmented, or retired to achieve the target state, thus forming the basis for subsequent architecture and implementation work.

A. Preliminary Phase: This phase focuses on establishing the architecture capability and tailoring the TOGAF framework; it does not involve detailed content-specific gap analysis.

B. Phase A: This phase, Architecture Vision, establishes the scope and high-level vision. While it may identify high-level business challenges, it does not perform a detailed capability gap assessment.

C. Phase C: This phase, Information Systems Architectures, conducts gap analysis for Data and Application architectures, not for business capabilities, which are an input from Phase B.

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1. The Open Group. (2018). The TOGAF® Standard

Version 9.2. Van Haren Publishing.

Section 7.1

"Phase B: Business Architecture - Objectives": States an objective is to "develop Target Business Architectures... identifying candidate Architecture Roadmap components based upon gaps between the Baseline and Target Business Architectures".

Section 7.5

"Phase B: Business Architecture - Steps": Step 6 is "Conduct formal gap analysis". This step explicitly details the process of comparing the Baseline and Target Business Architectures to identify gaps

which are foundational to defining the required business capabilities.

2. The Open Group. (2022). The TOGAF® Standard

10th Edition

ADM Guide.

Chapter 7

"Phase B: Business Architecture": Reaffirms the role of Phase B. Section 7.5

Step 6

"Conduct formal gap analysis"

describes using the gap analysis technique to compare the baseline and target states

with a focus on business-level items such as capabilities

processes

and roles. The output is a clear understanding of the capabilities to be addressed.