What is a capability analysis?

Do you have what’s required and needed to get the job done?

My experience with this is rooted in the military context, which is why it’s focused on the “mission,” but any organizational outcome works.

- The “should be” is laid out by policy (also called “doctrine”) - What organizational elements do internal and external policies dictate you should have?

- “What is” - the actual state of affairs - is determined through data collection, such as a desk review of salient policies and literature and focus groups and interviews with key interest holders

- Analysis using a relevant framework (in my case, DoD’s DOTmLP-F framework) allows you to sort your findings into buckets and identify gaps between “should” and “is.”

- To identify “what can be” - filling the gaps in what’s required AND needed - look to best practices identified in grey and scholarly literature and suggestions by key interest holders.