Development of a lean web application for capability mapping

Current situation and challenges

As a management consultancy, GP+S supports large and medium-sized clients in strategic and technology-related issues. The focus is on sustainable growth and customer-focused transformation. In order to identify the skills required in the future from a business perspective in such complex digitization and transformation programs, to clearly structure the target image and to plan implementation, GP+S uses the method of capability mapping. Capability maps visualize the most important capabilities and their level of maturity in a uniform format and show the overall context.

Before developing CAPAMAP, GP+S used the two Microsoft tools PowerPoint and Excel to document and present the capabilities. This presented the challenges:

• the high manual maintenance costs
• the susceptibility to errors
• difficult navigation on large maps
• the lack of possibility of synchronous editing by multiple users
• the illustration of role structures for users
• the limited maximum size of an overview map in PowerPoint

Solution and results

Web application with diverse and flexible structuring tools and intuitive user guidance

The developed CAPAMAP solution helps to structure capabilities stringently and make them easy to edit. The application offers the following benefits and functions:

• Clear presentation of large amounts of information and relationships
• Representation in complex structures such as maps, capabilities, and capability clusters
• Demand-based display of content in short or detailed format
• Visualization at different zoom levels and with navigation aids
• (Mass) import and export of data, storage, printing options
• Filter and search functions
• Modern user interface that allows easy navigation even on large maps
• High requirements for security, stability and encryption
• Compliance with data protection requirements

The benefits of the new CAPAMAP

• Users receive an easy-to-read planning tool that serves as a control tool during implementation
• The consistent implementation of the tool's usability at the level of a modern B2C application in order to achieve a high level of acceptance across all specialist areas
• The concept of the dynamic user interface, which makes it easy to adapt objects in order to be able to represent every business with its specifics
• The use of Active Directory, which allows the end customer to offer a single sign-on
• Integration with Microsoft Office application (Excel) for importing and exporting data