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Application Example: Pre-Implementation
Vulnerability Analysis
According to some estimates, up to 75% of
enterprise software deployments fail in some important way:
the project is over-budget, behind schedule, or the software
is deployed and not used. Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret,
is a noted expert on this subject. Given the size of enterprise
software deployments, which can easily range into the millions
of dollars, careful project assessment is an essential element
in improving the odds of success.
Traditional IT project risk assessments
suffer from several important deficiencies:
- Clients may view IT risk assessments
as
biased, designed more to increase consultant
revenues than to provide an objective and thorough analysis
of their issues
- Information gathering is limited to
a small group of participants, resulting in biased source
data and skewed results
- Time and cost concerns limit the scope
of the exercise, further constraining the value of the
results
Asuret's CI Engine provides a superior solution
to the problem of performing rapid IT project vulnerability
and risk assessments. CI Engine evaluates almost 50 qualitative
dimensions of IT project success and failure, converting
them into discrete, measurable, and quantitative data for
driving IT change initiatives. The direct result is a more
successful IT implementation and deployment process.
When traditional consultants take on an
assessment assignment, they usually spend a substantial
amount of time interviewing key participants. That's a good
way to understand complexity in a situation where the
nature of the problem is not clearly understood. With IT
projects, however, the problems and associated
management techniques are well-understood, making
interviews a time-consuming and unnecessarily
expensive method for conducting assessments. Face-to-face interviews
require too many people, too many hours, and too many dollars.
Worse, the interviews can turn into a committee effort, which
often produces least common denominator conclusions—the
result of interview fatigue and too much editing and filtering
of information.
The CI Engine vulnerability assessment begins
by asking participants and stakeholders to evaluate approximately
50 vulnerability dimensions in the upcoming project. CI
Engine asks participants to quantify two aspects of each
dimension—the actual level of riskiness, as measured by a series
of descriptive statements, and the relative importance of
each risk factor for this specific project. Participants may also
add text comments about each question, and may choose to
not evaluate any dimension where they lack appropriate information.
The collective intelligence analysis is
divided into seven parts, each of which covers a set of
critical implementation factors. Click the links below to
see the dimensions used to evaluate pre-implementation vulnerability:
For more information, call:
Michael Krigsman
President
Asuret, Inc.
617/905-5950
mkrigsman@asuret.com
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