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Define the capability your organisation actually needs.

Move from broad skill lists to a coherent capability architecture connecting strategy, roles, skills, evidence, development and organisational priorities.

FOR ORGANISATIONS ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITY
THE ORGANISATIONAL QUESTION

What capabilities do we need now, what capabilities will we need next, and how do we define them consistently enough to develop and evidence?

CAPABILITY MANDATE

Capability strategy becomes useful when it can be translated into an operating architecture.

Astraal approaches organisational capability as a connected system: capability is defined, developed, applied, connected to opportunity and supported by trustworthy evidence and recognition.

Capability Strategy

Translate strategic priorities into capability domains, future needs, role families and development priorities.

Capability Architecture

Define capabilities, relationships, proficiency contexts, evidence expectations and currency.

Role & Skill Architecture

Connect roles, skills and capabilities without reducing capability to a flat skills inventory.

OPERATING MODEL

From organisational need to demonstrated capability.

The operating sequence can be configured for the organisation, population and capability mandate rather than forcing every organisation into the same programme structure.

01Frame strategy
02Identify capability
03Model relationships
04Map roles
05Define evidence
06Design journeys
07Activate & review
WHAT IS CONFIGURED

The capability system is contextual.

Capability domainsOrganise capability around business, professional, technical, leadership and future-oriented domains.
Capability relationshipsRepresent prerequisite, adjacent, complementary, transferable and emerging relationships.
Proficiency contextUse context-specific stages and evidence rather than a universal score applied to every capability.
Evidence modelDefine what can establish knowledge, performance, contribution, experience or assessed achievement.
CurrencyDistinguish historical attainment from current evidence and identify capabilities requiring renewal.
Operating governanceDefine ownership, terminology, access, evidence stewardship, assessment and change control.
ASTRAAL ARCHITECTURE

One organisational capability environment.

A common capability architecture can connect strategy to the four operating layers.

ARCHITECTUREA common capability architecture can connect strategy to the four operating layers.
LEARNDevelop the knowledge and understanding required for the defined capability.
BUILDCreate opportunities to practise and demonstrate capability in context.
OPPORTUNITIESConnect capability to roles, projects, mobility and external ecosystems.
BOUNDARY & TRUST

Capability architecture is not a skills spreadsheet.

It should remain traceable from organisational intent to capability definition, development activity, applied evidence and recognition. It describes the system; it does not by itself make employment, performance or talent decisions.