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Readiness Assessment

How do you improve your organization's chance of success in implementing Business Intelligence or a Data Warehouse? The first step is to understand the potential risks that your project faces. Once you understand where the potential problems lie, you can develop and implement a plan that will eliminate or avoid these problems.

The Data Warehouse Readiness Assessment engagement evaluates organizational and technical factors that are known to cause BI and Data Warehouse projects to fail:

Sponsorship, alignment and decision making characteristics
External factors and source data quality and availability
Skills and resource availability and competing initiatives
IT environment, processes and information delivery tools

The eight factors are rated using a 10-point scale (10 being “best practice”). A rating of seven or higher indicates a good probability of success. Lower ratings indicate risks. Once the analysis is completed, we develop a work plan to minimize the risks and improve the probability of success.

Readiness Assessment Factors	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. Sponsorship and business alignment						X
2. Decision making characteristics							X
3. External factors				X
4. Source data quality and availability					X
5. Skills and key personnel availability						X
6. Competing initiatives			X
7. Information Technology environment					X
8. Processes and information delivery tools					X
Overall readiness rating						X

The Assessment is conducted as follows:

Preliminary survey (including pre-interview questionnaire)
On-site interviews and document review
Develop preliminary Assessment document
Review and revise Assessment document
Develop Project Charter and Work Plan
Develop and deliver Assessment presentation to management

Normal duration - two to three weeks