Assessment demonstrator - Step 4

Putting it all together

Now you have identified your organisation's management culture and process capability. You also have a complexity factor for your project.

Now we can put these all together.

First we combine the management culture and process capability scores to indicate a composite Organisational Capability.

For example, an organisation with an Aligned management culture and and a process capability at Level 3, will have a Medium organisational capability, as shown in the table:

This provides a useful baseline for an organisation to assess its capability to manage change and how successful it will be in introducing cross-department systems and processes.

Now lets look at the project complexity in relation to this organisaitonal capability. We can do this by taking the combined Organisational Capability value (High/Medium/Low) and plotting it against the Complexity factor (Simple/Not Simple/Complex/Too Complex) as the two axes of a simple chart.

In the example below, a complex project is shown in the context of a Medium organisational capability.

Green: go ahead

Amber: the project is probably too complex for the organisation, or you haven’t resourced it adequately – either will have an impact on expected benefits.

Red: Stop! Your will project will not succeed. Analyse where the problems lie and re-plan.