
- Dependence on technology
- Level of automation
- All
- Extensive
- Many
- Some
- Few
- Sophistication
- Leading edge
- Real time
- Mix of real time and batch
- Batch mode
- Basic
- Allowable downtime
- Greater than an hour
- Greater than a day
- Greater than a week
- Greater than a month
- Revert to paper
- Level of automation
- External interaction
- Outsourcing
- Complete outsource
- Most key activities outsourced
- Outsourcing of some key activities
- Some outsourcing
- No outsourcing
- Partner and contracters
- Untested suppliers
- Less well known suppliers
- Range of partners with some smaller suppliers
- Established partners
- Reputable partners
- Business unit user computing external to the system
- Vital part of operations
- Supplemental
- Regular
- Some
- Minimal
- Outsourcing
- Skills and resources
- Qualification and training
- Inexperienced and inadequately trained staff
- Poorly trained staff
- Mix of qualified and inexperienced staff
- Good range of skilled staff
- High calibre of staff
- Workload
- Insufficient resources
- Shortfall in resources
- Resources adequate for current needs and informal planning of future needs
- Sufficient staff to meet current workload
- At predetermined levels
- Management structure
- No management
- No management defined
- Management function suitable for current resources
- Accountability is clear
- High level enterprise representation
- Staff churn
- No stability
- Low morale
- Regular churn
- Limited churn and satisfactory replacement strategy
- Negligible churn
- Qualification and training
- Changing environment
- Major projects
- Extremely high activity stretching resources to the limit
- High volume with intermittent capacity problems
- Within resource ability
- Limited
- Minimal
- Custom development
- Extremely high activity of development
- High volume of development activity
- Balanced development and packaged solutions
- Majority of solutions are packaged
- Packaged solutions
- Leading edge technology
- Leading edge technology
- New technology introduced
- Some level of recent technology change
- Low level of technology change
- Stable technology
- Business resources
- All business activities being reorganised
- Major reorganisation
- Some core business processes reorganised
- Some elements of the business reorganised
- No significant changes
- Major projects
- Reliability of systems
- Complexity
- Very large and complex systems
- Large systems
- Moderately large systems
- Majority simple systems
- Small or simple systems
- Fragmentation
- Separate ‘islands’ of systems
- Majority of information is relayed manually
- Resources adequate for current needs and informal planning of future needs
- Interfaces between systems automated
- Fully integrated
- Scalablity
- Environment is volatile
- Difficult to predict changes
- Occasional emergency changes
- Changes can be predicted
- Demand is stable
- Error rate
- Constant error rate
- Regular error rate
- Occasional errors
- Errors rare
- No errors
- Stability
- Systems inflexible and majority of needs are not addressed
- Systems inflexible
- Delays experienced
- Stable and all key needs addressed
- Systems are stable and all needs addressed
- Complexity
- Focus on business environment
- Business interaction
- No coordination with business
- Some involvement of business
- Business needs considered in strategy
- Business requirements a priority
- Strategic part of business
- Management awareness
- Management and business users are not aware of value and risk of systems
- Management aware of value and risk but business users are not
- High level addressed and limited knowledge of lower levels
- Understanding of systems is a high priority
- Full awareness of value and risk
- Satisfy requirements
- Requirements not addressed
- Systems unsatisfactory
- Systems satisfy core requirements
- Most systems satisfy requirement
- Business needs are satisfied
- Business interaction
- Value of information
- Fraud
- Business has highly desirable assets
- Significant range of valuable information
- Some valuable information
- Information not valuable
- Minimal desirable assets
- Legislation
- Highly regulated
- Extensive regulation and compliance activity
- Some systems need to be adapted for compliance
- Some relevance
- Minimal impact
- Data sensitivity
- Information is highly sensitive and confidential
- High confidential information stored
- Important information stored
- Limited storage of information
- Minimal system use
- Reputation
- Company involved in highly sensitive activity
- Company has high profile
- Company is well known
- Little reason for damage to reputation
- Low profile
- Fraud
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