cabusi or LinkedIn for Business Capabilities?
The other day I had a discussion with somebody who said cabusi is a little bit like LinkedIn and asked me: "What's your competitive advantage?". I first was a little bit confused but there definitely are some similarities and it's a fair question.
The intention of cabusi is to bring a community of capability management experts together, to share knowledge and to learn from each other. A bit like what's already very successfully happening in LinkedIn groups. In addition to that, cabusi can be used to be recognised as an expert in a specific industry or in creating business capability models in general. Maybe there will be even people who will be offered a new job because of the great work they share on cabusi.
But in general I don't see a competitive advantage to LinkedIn as we really don't want to be seen as a competitor. The focus is the creation and sharing of business capability models. Not more but also not less :-)
But sharing and discussing about capability models is already happening in LinkedIn Groups as well. Let's have a look at an excerpt of this thread https://www.linkedin.com/groups/If-you-were-create-Business-36781.S.96882229?view=&item=96882229&type=member&gid=36781&trk=eml-group_discussion_new_comment-discussion-title-link&midToken=AQE6vyliQu2Ebg&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=06IxHPJrd-5mo1
Our first step was to identify our high-level capabilities. This resulted in seven capabilities:
1. Client relationship management
2. Sales & marketing management
3. Product/service planning & development management
4. Finance & Administration management
5. HR management
6. Knowledgebase management
7. Engagement management
3. Product/service planning & development management
Product and service offerings
3.1 Advice Consulting
3.2 Training
3.3 Methods & Tools
3.4 Advice Realization
3.5 Publications
3.6 Combination packages of 1 thru 5
Does it work? I would say yes. There are lots f threads like this in LinkedIn groups as well as in other forums of other websites. Is it the best way to do it? In my opinion it is not. We all are more attracted to nice visualisations than to text. Wouldn't it be easier to discuss based on an automatically created map like this one?
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to say that cabusi is a better collaboration platform than LinkedIn. Absolutely not. LinkedIn has way more users, features and the ability to discuss about just everything not only Capability Models. No doubt!
From my point of view a combination of both tools is the best way of getting the best result - a capability model which suits your needs - with the support of the community. What are the possibilities:
Why not starting and keeping the overall conversation in LinkedIn Groups and whenever it gets more detailed, just link to a cabusi model with a simple url like this one http://www.cabusi.com/model/aEjMHFr5Sd6i54SSD which points you to the same model as you see above.
As we like LinkedIn so much, we even support starting a discussion in LinkedIn based on a capability model in cabusi.
The vision of cabusi is to allow people to find, create and share capability models. No matter where the conversation starts or ends. We want to make it easier to build great models and not more complicated.
