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Failed IT projects are common: in fact, some
research estimates that over half of all IT projects are
over-budget, late, or don't deliver the expected scope. At
the same time, tracking and isolating the causes of these
failures remains difficult at best. The reason is simple:
failures are generally caused by business, rather than
technical, complexities.
An organization's
collective
intelligence represents the accumulated body of knowledge,
wisdom, and experience of the people associated with that organization.
Although collective wisdom is an organization's most valuable
asset, quantifying and harnessing that knowledge can be an elusive and challenging
goal.
How can collective intelligence be
identified, quantified, and measured? Collaboration,
decision support, and voting systems don't let you measure and codify collective intelligence, which
limits their usefulness. Collective intelligence is more
than collaboration, even though it relies on information
sharing and recognizes the value of knowledge distributed
throughout an organization. Similarly, while consensus
building is an important goal of collective intelligence,
voting systems are not nuanced, and can't compensate for
misinformed participants, limiting this technique's
usefulness in harnessing collective intelligence to solve
business problems.
Asuret's CI Engine
solution
addresses these problems, harnessing collective intelligence
to bring rigor and
discipline to organizational change, assessment, and
improvement initiatives
Measuring Vulnerabilities in IT Portfolios
and Projects
Asuret measures key vulnerabilities across
IT project portfolios and on individual IT projects:
Project portfolio
vulnerability analysis. IT investment
decisions are usually made using various financial measures. However,
whether an IT
project succeeds or fails depends on
non-financial variables
that are ordinarily difficult to quantify and measure.
CI Engine makes it fast and easy to gather the data needed
to accurately measure vulnerabilities that can cause
IT projects to fail. By combining Asuret vulnerability analysis
with traditional economic measures, IT investment decisions
can be made on the basis of more complete information.
Asuret provides information derived directly from project
stakeholders, giving your project management office a more
accurate view inside candidate projects. The result:
better
decisions, fewer failures, and higher ROI on projects that
are funded.
Individual IT projects.
Asuret's solution for
evaluating IT projects ensures vulnerabilities are
discovered and remedied before the project starts. Fixing
potential issues before they become major problems is the
best way to avoid becoming an IT failure statistic.
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