Patent ID: 8214236

Claim:
A method of developing and sustaining capabilities of a business, the method comprising: providing, using at least one computing device, components of a business model with defined attributes for a plurality of levels of capability, wherein the components include the capabilities of offering and managing sponsorship, funding, roles and responsibilities, measurements, incentives, technology, activities and processes, strategy and vision and value proposition, tacit knowledge and expertise, and member value; forming, using at least one computing device, a community of individuals of the business; assessing, using at least one computing device, and based on the defined attributes, the level of capability for the community in each of the components; setting, using at least one computing device, goals and action plans for managing and improving the community in its the level of capability in performance of the components, wherein the goals and actions plans are developed based on a community development roadmap, which specifies the ordering, sequencing, and timing of activities as a series of checkpoints at pre-specified time intervals for improving or sustaining the community in its level of capability; negotiating, using at least one computing device, the appropriate amount of funding to carry out the action plans; and reassessing, using at least one computing device, the level of capability of the community in each of the components.