Assessment Services
Establishing and managing an Information Portfolio represents a significant investment. Balanced Insight will assist you in building a blueprint and roadmap to set your enterprise on the right course in delivering and managing a high value Information Portfolio. Our assessment services are geared to quickly provide you with actionable recommendations; enabling your team to transition to a “rapid time to value” organization by leveraging your strengths and mitigating any issues, risks, and weaknesses.
Our assessments are typically completed in four to eight weeks and include an internal quality assurance review by a Balanced Insight advisor not directly involved in the effort. Each assessment consists of information gathering, analysis, recommendations, action plan, and final knowledge transfer presentation.
The information gathering is accomplished through a series of interviews with business and technical stakeholders, along with the review of supporting documentation. This information is then analyzed to provide an assessment of the organization, process, and architecture based on our information portfolio management best practices. Our findings are then documented and formally presented to your leadership team and key stakeholders.
Key assessment offerings include:
Business Intelligence Assessment – this assessment is focused on how well your organization is addressing the demands of the business for business intelligence solutions. Areas of concentration include: repeatability of your key processes; quality orientation of your delivery and support processes; consistency and reusability in the solutions that are delivered; interfacing with the business for demand management, requirements, and deployment of solutions. Key recommendations and results of this assessment will assist you and your team in building a “Business Intelligence Center of Excellence”, whether that is centralized, distributed, or virtual.
Enterprise Information Management Assessment – this assessment is focused on evaluating your organization’s practices as they relate to “best practices” in the area of cross functional governance, information sharing and reuse across functional areas, and overall business value delivered from your information assets. Key recommendations and results of this assessment will assist you and your team in building an “Information Center of Excellence”, whether that is centralized, distributed, or virtual.