A capability is the ability to execute a specified course of action or to achieve certain outcomes. As it applies to

human capital Human capital is a concept used by social scientists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process. It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education. Human capital has a substantial ...

, capability represents performing or achieving certain actions/outcomes in terms of the intersection of capacity and ability. Capability may also refer to:

Engineering

Capability (systems engineering) A capability, in the systems engineering sense, is defined as the ability to execute a specified course of action. A capability may or may not be accompanied by an intention. The term is used in the defense industry but also in private industry ( ...

, the ability to execute a specified course of action * Capability management, integrative management function in the defense sector

Computing

Capability-based addressing In computer science, capability-based addressing is a scheme used by some computers to control access to memory as an efficient implementation of capability-based security. Under a capability-based addressing scheme, pointers are replaced by protec ...

, scheme used by some computers to control access to memory *

Capability-based security Capability-based security is a concept in the design of secure computing systems, one of the existing security models. A capability (known in some systems as a key) is a communicable, unforgeable token of authority. It refers to a value that refe ...

, concept in the design of secure computing systems

Economics

Capability Maturity Model The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded the research. The term "maturity" relates to the degree of ...

, a development model *

Capability Maturity Model Integration Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process level improvement training and appraisal program. Administered by the CMMI Institute, a subsidiary of ISACA, it was developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It is required by many ...

, a process improvement training and appraisal program *

Dynamic capabilities In organizational theory, dynamic capability is the capability of an organization to purposefully adapt an organization's resource base. The concept was defined by David Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen, in their 1997 paper ''Dynamic Capabilities an ...

, theory in organizational sciences *

Capability management in business Capability management is the approach to the management of an organization, typically a business organization or firm, based on the "theory of the firm" as a collection of capabilities that may be exercised to earn revenues in the marketplace and ...

, capacity, materials, and expertise an organization needs in order to perform core functions *

Capability approach The capability approach (also referred to as the capabilities approach) is a normative approach to human welfare that concentrates on the actual capability of persons to achieve lives they value rather than solely having a right or freedom to do ...

, theory in welfare economics

People

Capability Brown Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English la ...

(1716–1783), English landscape artist *

Capability Development Group The Chief of Capability Development Group (CCDG) was head of the Capability Development Group (CDG) in the Australian Department of Defence, part of the Australian Defence Organisation. This position was created in December 2003 and disbanded th ...

Music

* "Incapable" (Julie Bergan song) * "Incapable" (Róisín Murphy song)

Other uses

* USS ''Capable'', a vessel *

Capable group In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a group is said to be capable if it occurs as the inner automorphism group of some group. These groups were first studied by Reinhold Baer, who showed that a finite abelian group In mathematics, an a ...