What is an IT Maturity Model and why is it important?
An IT Maturity Model provides a benchmark for evaluating your organization’s technological capabilities. Every organization needs to understand their current level of IT maturity in order to prioritize and implement the best steps to maximize future resources and results. It is an effective tool to help determine where you are and where you want to be with your IT organization and includes an assessment of IT strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
What are the business benefits of an IT Maturity Model?
- Reduce Security Risks
- Enhance Business – IT Alignment
- Improve Efficiency and Reduce Costs
- Improve Business Value
What’s involved in an IT Maturity Model Assessment?
An IT Maturity Model Assessment provides detailed measurements in several critical areas:
Organizational Readiness
IT Organizational Structure: This measures the ability of your IT team to work together towards its team and organization goals as well as understand individual functions and the connections between them.
Key Individuals: This involves analyzing the workload, resource availability, and skills of the IT team to support organizational objectives.
Industry Benchmarks: Comparison of IT spending, budgeting, and organizational structure to organizations in corresponding industries.
Workflow Design and Management
Infrastructure and Operations: Ability to deliver outcomes, founded on processes, practices, organizational structures, skills, knowledge, systems, data, and tools.
Analytics and Reporting: Reporting and processes to increase productivity, clarity in communication, data accuracy, and timeliness of informed decision-making.
Development Team: Assessment of languages used, applications maintained, project management methodology, DevOps and CI/CD practices, and the team’s most pressing challenges.
Technology Fitness
Infrastructure: The maturity of the current technical infrastructure.
Cybersecurity and Data Management: The capability and complexity of the current use of cybersecurity and data management infrastructure.
Applications and Application Architecture: The maturity of application architecture for key business applications including assessment of technical debt, modernness of environment and presence of integrated workflow and integration.
When the assessment is complete, you’ll receive a comprehensive assessment of findings, recommendations, and resources to help the organization.
How do you know if an IT Maturity Assessment is right for your organization?
The best way to answer that question is to ask some critical internal questions about your IT structure.
Are you uncertain that your IT organization is structured to attain the value you need from your technology? An IT Maturity Model Assessment can help you gain insights into the IT spending, budgeting, and structure of your organization through the lens of industry-specific benchmarks
Does your executive leadership feel disconnected from your technology activities? An IT Maturity Model Assessment can help determine if your organization has the adequate level of maturity, processes and functions to align with executive leadership’s overall mission. An IT Maturity Model would provide executives with a clear roadmap to optimizing their IT spend.
Do you experience disruptions to your business because your technology is not working properly? The IT Maturity Model Assessment will move you from a reactive to a proactive stance in your IT efforts, and allow you to replace technology before it fails.
Would you like a plan and a roadmap to create a path to value in your IT spend? We can help you plan for the availability and limitations of IT resources so that your IT can prioritize their time and attention on supporting your organization’s needs.
Do your employees complain about how their technology is not working for them? Produce the best possible employee and customer experience as they interact with systems to access services and business solutions
Ready to learn more or ask questions?
WIN understands technology and will work with you to help make the most of your IT organization. We can implement an IT Maturity Model Assessment to show you where you’re at currently, determine where you’d like to be, and how to get there.
If you have questions or would like to learn more about IT Maturity Model Assessments, get in touch with us for a no-obligation consultation.