Aviarc Agility Centre
Idea Qualification
Idea Qualification
With the adoption of an Aviarc ESS strategy, multiple business-driven ideas can be assessed, culled where necessary, supported where appropriate and delivered with an overhead so low as to not distract the IT organisation from delivering to its strategic plan.
The CIO can be seen to be responsive to the varied needs of the business while actively focusing on the major systems inevitably being delivered. The use of Aviarc Australia resources to work directly with the business, while actively reporting to the IT group, can actually add to the enterprise's resources, not drain them.
To help the CIO be more responsive to the business, we developed the Idea Qualifier, a software-supported process that enables an IT business analyst or an Aviarc Australia Consultant to lead a structured half-day workshop with the business idea-owner to:
- Capture the essence of the proposed business innovation in a non-judgemental manner;
- Capture the features required to deliver the innovation;
- Estimate the enterprise impact of the benefits envisaged from the innovation;
- Capture the assumptions made when estimating benefits, allowing for a post-implementation benefits realisation exercise;
- Make an initial assessment of the total development and delivery costs envisaged;
- Produce an initial business case to justify moving to the next phase.
The CIO can manage, summarise and report on all of the ideas in the incubation process, as well as make triage recommendations to the business leaders in order to pursue the highest-ROI or most critical innovations. This summary can be in the form of total net benefit of projects initiated to demonstrate IT commitment to business driven innovation.
The output from the IQ process is an automatically generated document, either soft or hard copy, that can be used to facilitate rapid decison making regarding the value of the idea. The contents of the document include:
- An overview of the proposed innovation;
- A high-level description of the features required to deliver the functionality;
- A first-pass cost-benefit analysis, including:
- Both tangible and intangible benefits;
- An ability to choose the benefits used for evaluation;
- An estimate of total costs;
- IRR, NPV and Payback calculations;
- Downloadable summaries that can be loaded into a spreadsheet for individual analysis;
- A signature page for approvals.
Because the IQ software is Aviarc-based, customisation to fit an organisation's specific systems authorisation processes is a relatively simple matter.
Snapshots of any or all of the IQ projects can be taken for a particular date, enhancing auditability.
When approved, the output from the IQ process becomes the input for the Idea Development (ID) process, reducing set-up time.