So, your organization is thinking of implementing a Content Management or Business Process Management solution? You may ask yourself,
“Where do I start?”
It can be a daunting prospect. That is why General Networks has developed the Readiness Assessment. This consulting engagement helps clients answer the question “Does it make sense my organization to look into a particular solution as a way to achieve our goals?”
Based on our many years of experience with content management and business process management deployments, we have built a model that helps us answer that question.
During the Readiness Assessment, our consultants look at many facets that currently define your organization. We will analyze:
· Current Business Drivers – What are the primary forces that determine the success of your organization? These may include external drivers (such as economic forces, industry standards or regulatory requirements) and internal drivers (such as sales goals, establishing cost control, improving customer satisfaction or achieving compliance with internal mandates.)
· Existing and Future Initiatives – Leveraging another IT initiative can often lead to greater success. You might be able to achieve greater adoption and improved ROI by combining two initiatives into one larger project. What action items or projects is your organization committed to completing in the next year? 2 years? 10 years?
· Maturity of Current Processes – Being ready for a new technology is important, putting a system in place without proper business processes can lead to a failed implementation. We will examine what level of maturity have you achieved in your current business process. Is your organization:
o Crawling – you have no formal process controls.
o Walking – you documented formal processes and begun to build systems around these processes.
o Running - you have well established processes and systems and want to take it to the next level.
· Culture –Adoption is one of the biggest barriers to a successful deployment of any solution. So we’ll ask, how accustom to change is your organization? Is technology accepted or feared? Is your organization’s decision making process open, collaborative, or strongly hierarchical?
General Networks’ specialists will help your organization work through the Readiness Assessment. At the end of this effort, we will write a Readiness Report. The Readiness Report will show critical factors impacting the relevance, adoption, and effectiveness of the solution in your organization.
In today’s tough economic time, trying to get an IT project approved will be a hard sell. Decision makers are assessing the value of IT projects against higher rigorous standards. Even projects that support mission critical business processes may not get funded. Applications that produce a good ROI in one business unit may fail to get corporate executive support. The projects that have the best chance of getting funded are the ones that have the most compelling business case. These are the projects that have the highest probability of helping your organization achieve cost cutting and revenue generating initiatives. These are the projects that stand out.
The Readiness Report can help you determine if the solution is a worthy candidate and should it be one of your top IT initiatives.
Contact us now on sales@gennet.com for your $3000 value Readiness Assessment for only $500 (offer available until July 30th 2011).