Tricension Maturity Assessment Services

Complete IT maturity assessment is a real challenge and can be notoriously difficult. However it is essential for improvement of operations and overall performance, especially for enterprise-level companies. Tricension has certified experts, necessary tools and expertise to carry out assessment that will help evaluate where you are on maturity model, where you should be and what you need to advance.

What Is IT Maturity Assessment?

IT maturity is defined and shaped by your business: depending on the purpose, IT maturity assessment will either be broad focusing on overall areas like transparency, risk management, security, processes, asset management, customer satisfaction, governance while others look deeply into certain area like alignment of your organization with best practices frameworks. IT maturity assessment is aimed at benchmarking your current IT model to identify areas for improvement. However to get the most value out of your IT maturity assessment efforts you need to prepare thoroughly. Tricension experts will help you plan your IT maturity assessment and get the most out of your initiative.

• • Identify the purpose. The greatest value of IT maturity assessment is getting the bigger picture of your current IT state with the aim of improvement. Assessing IT maturity without the clear vision of your goal and ways of getting there will rather be unproductive. Tricension experts will provide clear recommendations on where your maturity model should be, based on business realities, enabling a purposeful IT maturity assessment which will help you understand what is required in order to advance.
  • Define maturity for your organization. A lot of IT maturity assessment models focus too much on certain benchmarks and best practices, ignoring your unique business realities and where your specific business needs to be. The fact is, maturity is unique for every organization. Many enterprises are led to believe that higher levels of maturity are better. Tricension uses a completely unique and custom approach to each organization, helping you identify business objectives, gaps and find IT solutions that will help you reach these objectives through strategic IT maturity assessment.

    We will help you bring together all the business stakeholders, outline the processes you have put in place and view them vis-à-vis the initial vision and mission of the organization helping you decide whether you have everything necessary to compete and succeed at the present and into the future.

Understanding IT Maturity Assessment

To measure the IT maturity of an organization, you must consider its readiness and capacity to perform reliably. You measure the readiness and capability by assessing its data, processes, technologies, people and other measurement practices that the organization has established. The level of maturity of an organization is determined by its ability to execute its IT strategy. For this reason, it is important to assess IT maturity as a guide towards a desired Information Technology level. That is why organizations that have a clear understanding of their current capacity can create plans to improve. Indeed, a major part of any improvement strategy is adopting the lessons learnt over time. You will be able to say that your organization has reached maturity when you find that your organization has perfected the art of collecting lessons in the process of undertaking every project and using these insights to make organizational improvements. In maturity assessment, we score your organization against a clearly defined ranking scheme or criteria. Typically, the assessment will be organized in an ascending order and strategies established aimed at moving organization up that maturity scale. This scale is often defined in a range between 1 and 5 with the five levels being:

• Performed – refers to all activities performed in an organization that are unplanned, impromptu or informal
• Managed – refers to all activities performed via managed processes
• Defined – refers to all activities that the organization has clearly defined so that they can be undertaken in a uniform fashion
• Measured – refers to the act of oversight that each performed activity receives to ensure uniformity and better performance
• Optimized – refers to the establishment of constant improvement processes based on the processes that have been defined and measured

Now and then, periodic reassessments become necessary. In these reassessments, process is measured against the organizational baseline assessment as well as the results of prior assessments. After this, an organization can use these results to adjust its efforts towards maintaining and improving maturity. In addition to having the capacity to carry out complete IT maturity assessments for your organization, Tricension has the expertise to guide your enterprise through the process of self-awareness so that you can commit to dealing with the issues that will bring about the necessary improvement.

Common Problems Of Implementing IT Maturity Models

Organizations face various challenges when implementing IT maturity models because they lack a clear understanding and vision of the technology they need to thrive in the marketplace. These challenges will often include:

• Overestimating the technological competences that they need
• Overestimating the capabilities of the IT maturity models that they choose to use as well as the maturity of their own IT departments
• Using maturity models that are too narrow: instead of taking a holistic approach, focus is on specific type of technology used within the organization

At Tricension, we are constantly reviewing our IT maturity model so that we can competently offer the best possible IT maturity assessment services possible. Our team of experienced maturity assessment experts recognizes the barriers these challenges present to business enterprises that want to continue thriving in a changing IT landscape. We can help your project managers build a working action-based deployment strategy for IT improvement.

Features of Tricension IT maturity assessment services

Some of the features of our IT maturity assessment services include:

• Full inventory of servers/network/storage/applications
• Application assessment to determine their readiness for a cloud migration
• Network and cloud capacity assessment
• Stakeholder engagement with the aim of gathering end-user information and requirements
• Analysis of available cloud options
• Conducting a GAP analysis. Issuing reports and recommendations for each of the applications the organization is using

Tricension’s Approach To IT Maturity Assessment

At Tricension, we understand the pressure that organizations are often under to deliver value to all stakeholders by saving time and identifying cost-effective approaches to doing business. Therefore, we have structured our approach to help you optimize your operations by attaining a higher level of IT maturity. Our proven methods have made it possible for us to help numerous organizations achieve more with less. Using our IT maturity assessment model, we can:

• Assess your current IT maturity levels and its meaning for the organization on the way towards achieving set goals
• Analyze your organization’s business requirements and strategic priorities for the utilization of IT
• Define the maturity level your organization strives to achieve in each capability area as a step towards the realization of strategic choices
• Identify and prioritize the necessary initiatives for change so that your organization can move forward towards the target

Talk to us today and let us tell you more about our IT maturity assessment model, and how it can help move your organization towards greater IT maturity.