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# Manage business capabilities

# Manage business capabilities {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

A business capability is the ability of an organization to do its business activities successfully and fulfill its business goals.

Use the business capability mapping to establish a CI relationship between the business capability and the business applications. Establish a similar relationship between business capabilities and the application technologies to
ascertain the risks involved in using them.

As business organizations grow, it's imperative for an enterprise architect to assess the business capabilities to know how to strengthen the business processes.  
From the Portfolio page in Enterprise Architecture Workspace, you can perform the following:

* Create a business capability
* View existing business capabilities
* Add a sub-capability
* Add architectural artifacts to a business capability
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You can also view and add business capabilities and perform a host of other tasks relating to business capabilities, from the Business Portfolio page. For more information, see [Managing a business portfolio](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/2xQe4z8rxejjKp3C8kHNFw "As an Enterprise Architect, view the capability hierarchy, manage capabilities, and assign business applications to the capabilities.").
* **[View all business capabilities on the Portfolio page](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/T9o424tjOTBAEWfyuyS30A)**   
  You can view the list of all available capabilities in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
* **[Add or edit a business capability from the Portfolio page](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/634S7kaS_WUD7geNhxqw4g)**   
  Create or edit a business capability to align your organization's business goals.
* **[Create a sub-capability from the Portfolio page](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/NnfZ47ZHI7285yzQdnXr2g)**   
  You can add a sub-capability to a capability.
* **[Create a Lucidchart diagram for a business capability](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/xXIt1eeH3wvyXrjBSBtytw)**   
  Create a diagram in Lucidchart for your business capability maps and associate it with an architectural artifact.
* **[View value stream stages for a business capability](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/DPVTOBG6He~Fjj1XEwXp2Q)**   
  You can view the value stream stages associated with a business capability to understand which steps in your value stream the business capability supports.
* **[Manage architectural artifacts of a business capability](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/HmCxCXrwwQ895k6SWwRQNA)**   
  You can create new, add, or remove the artifacts that are associated with a business capability.