Search Classes:  

Consulting

Organizational Assessments

The successful implementation of technology solutions involves more than just technology. These initiatives often have implications for people and processes across the organization. Most technology initiatives fail to achieve their objectives because human and organizational problems aren’t adequately addressed.

TechSherpas provides a set of guidelines best practices for preparing an organization to adopt technological changes through capability planning, organizational capability and competency identification, and organizational assessments. The steps involved to achieve these goals include:

• Identifying senior IT managers and determining respective job functions
• Determining size, skill level and organizational distribution of IT staff
• Identifying linkages between staff and business, operations counterparts
• Identifying location of IT departments

A critical success factor to technical projects is making sure the implementation team and the end users will have the right skills to execute and benefit from its successful release. TechSherpas works with the assigned assessment manager within each organization to identify the skills gaps that need to be addressed through selected education, training and development strategies. TechSherpas helps organizations recognize early indications of potential project failure.