In organization studies this has been called a capability trap, and many organizations have stumbled and fallen because they stuck with their strengths.

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The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a rating system for developers, called the Capability Maturity Model, that takes into account ability to produce quality software on time and on budget.

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In addition, consumers concerned about online privacy may not like the new standard, called New Distribution Capability, since it gives airlines another venue for collecting their personal information.

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His famous temper is in check, even when he disagrees with someone's analysis of the DVD's capability to handle something called layering.

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Another flaw was that the initial assessment of the armed groups underestimated their capability as what a senior French diplomat called a "well armed, equipped, trained and determined" force, which apparently tried to hold ground in terrain usually defined by skirmishes and ambushes.

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