Manage business capabilities

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title: Manage business capabilities
description: Add or edit a business capability, sub-capability, and manage architectural artifacts and diagrams of the capabilities in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Using business architecture, Working with Portfolio list view, Managing Enterprise Architecture Workspace, Enterprise Architecture Workspace, Enterprise Architecture]
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# Manage business capabilities

Add or edit a business capability, sub-capability, and manage architectural artifacts and diagrams of the capabilities in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

You can also associate a business capability with the business unit that uses it, and with the goals it realizes:

-   Add a business unit to a business capability
-   Remove a business unit from a business capability
-   Add a goal to a business capability
-   Remove a goal from a business capability

-   **[View all business capabilities on the Portfolio page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-view-all-capabilities-on-the-portfolio-page.md)**  
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://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-add-capability.md)**  
Create or edit a business capability to align your organization’s business goals.
-   **[Create a sub-capability from the Portfolio page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-create-a-sub-capability-from-the-portfolio-page.md)**  
You can add a sub-capability to a capability.
-   **[Create a Lucidchart diagram for a business capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-create-lucid-diagram-cap.md)**  
Create a diagram in Lucidchart for your business capability maps and associate it with an architectural artifact.
-   **[Manage architectural artifacts of a business capability](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-assoicate-artifact-bc.md)**  
You can create new, add, or remove the artifacts that are associated with a business capability.
-   **[View value stream stages for a business capability](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-view-vs-stages-assoc-with-bc.md)**  
You can view the value stream stages associated with a business capability to understand which steps in your value stream the business capability supports.
-   **[Add a business unit to a business capability](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-add-business-unit-to-business-capability.md)**  
You can add an existing business unit to a business capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace or create a business unit from the business capability.
-   **[Remove a business unit from a business capability](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-remove-business-unit-from-business-capability.md)**  
Remove business units associated with a business capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
-   **[Add a goal to a business capability](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-add-goal-to-business-capability.md)**  
Add existing goals to a business capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace, or create a goal directly from the business capability record.
-   **[Remove a goal from a business capability](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-remove-goal-from-business-capability.md)**  
You can remove the goals associated with a business capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

**Parent Topic:**[Using business architecture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-using-business-architecture.md)

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