Capability Assessment 
General Networks has developed a Capability Assessment tool that helps clients answer the question “Does it make sense for organizations to look into a particular solution as a way to achieve their goals?”.

Based on our experiences with content management, document management, and contract management deployments, we have built a model that helps us answer three questions.  These three questions are:

  • Is the solution a good fit for your organization?
  • What are the change management issues for deploying such a solution?
  • What are the key areas that will benefit from the solution?

To answer those questions, we look at:

  • Business drivers - External drivers (economic, industry, regulatory) and internal drivers (sales, cost control, customer, compliance)
  • Initiatives – Action items that your company is committed to
  • Maturity of current processes – Are you crawling (no formal contract management system), walking (have identified basic contract meta-data), or running (integration to LOB applications)?
  • Culture – Adoption is one of the biggest barriers to a successful deployment of any solution.  How would you rate your company’s ability to adapt to technology?  Is your organization open to change or is it slow to change?  Is your organization’s decision making process open, collaborative, or strongly hierarchical?

Business drivers, initiatives, maturity, and culture are success factors that determine whether a solution fit in your organization.  What do we mean by fit?  It means: 

  • Can the deployment be achieved within your time frame or are there too many obstacles to conform to your schedule?
  • Will the people who need to be on board adapt to the new solution, or is that unlikely?
  • Will the solution deliver help your organization achieve its key initiatives over the next two years? 

General Networks specialists will help your organization work through the Capability Assessment that will produce a Capability Report.  The Capability 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 a rigorous standard.  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 Capability Report can help you determine if the solution is a worthy candidate and should it be one of your top IT initiatives.