The purpose of the ecosystem perspective is to understand the dynamics among enterprises.
- Descriptive - Capability models form a kind of calculus, between the various costs to provide capabilities and the value that they provide to various roleplayers inside and outside the enterprise.
- Prescriptive -With a capability model it is possible to explore dependencies that can point out missing or redundant capabilities in the chain of linkages that build toward a desired result.
- Predictive - It is predictable that any capability identified will have upstream and downstream dependencies. It is also predictable that there will be process snippets embedded in many of them and that a larger process view may be needed to understand how capabilities are to fire off in the course of doing business.
