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The Capability Overlap Framework

Four pillars drawn as four overlapping circles. Every region is named after what that combination produces, and what it lacks.

DesignEngineeringDataEnablementBlueprintHypothesisInfrastructureProvisioningMission

Read your region.

Two pillars
  • Blueprint Design + Engineering
  • Hypothesis Design + Data
  • Infrastructure Engineering + Enablement
  • Provisioning Data + Enablement
Three pillars
  • Product Missing Enablement
  • Deployment Missing Data
  • Campaign Missing Engineering
  • Operations Missing Design

Design with Enablement and Engineering with Data are not drawn as regions. Treat them as the nearest three-pillar region. In the centre, Mission, all four pillars are present.

Three readings.

  1. Bottom-half driftInfrastructure, Provisioning and Operations: you are producing without direction.
  2. Top-half stallBlueprint, Hypothesis and Campaign: you have vision without shipping.
  3. Close to MissionSitting in a triple region means one targeted intervention reaches Mission.