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Improved Management Decision-Making
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IT budgets can be better directed and controlled
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Staffing levels
can be set with greater effectiveness and efficiency
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Project
planning can be done with more precision and confidence
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The risk of failed projects, schedule misses and budget over-runs can be reduced
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Ineffective or inefficient operational processes
can be identified for improvement
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Reduction planning can be
done with greater foresight and confidence - just one
mistake could be extremely costly
Investment in your staff may well be the largest component of
your IT budget. With a confident understanding of the strengths,
weaknesses and skills gaps in your organization you will have much
better control over your IT budget and will, in most cases, see
significant savings as a result.
A consistent and unbiased understanding of the skill sets across
your organization will allow you to design the most efficient organization
structure and plan more accurately for staff level increases or
decreases. With a Baseline Skills Assessment you will have insight
into the skills gaps within individual roles and, with the optional
Group Analysis and Global
Analysis - across your entire organization.
This will greatly increase the efficient use of and planning for
the training investments you need to make, and will help you identify
areas in which such an investment will not have the payback you
desire within the timeframe or cost structure you need.
Taos Baseline Skills Assessment is also designed to allow you
to maintain information about distinct skills in such a way as
to make pulling together dynamic tiger teams or project teams easy.
Additionally, knowing precisely what skills are in a group is essential
to confidently taking on new projects, or deciding how to distribute
the workload. With this knowledge you can have better accuracy
in planning project timelines and in knowing when you need to turn
projects away, or put them off.
And, as a natural extension to the Baseline Skills
Assessment, Taos is able to provide you with group and global recommendations,
not only about training needs, staffing levels and structures,
but also about broken or inefficient processes within or between
groups though our optional Group
Analysis and Global
Analysis.
Finally, armed with the individual and global knowledge you achieve
through the Baseline Skills Assessment process, you can be prepared
if you need to plan for a reduction in headcount, or re-adjust
your organization after reducing staff. One mistake can be extremely
costly, and avoiding hasty last minute or emotional decisions is
key to managing headcount reduction effectively. Additionally,
looking across the organization as a whole in a consistent and
normalized way will ensure that superior teams or individuals are
not as affected as marginally performing ones.
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