AVVAL's Capability Review starts by helping you quantify the capabilities of IT management, and key and other IT resources. Once that knowledge is established, our trusted counselors can help you design and carry out short term or long term plans to obtain the resources you still need. A Capability Review can be taken of individuals, teams, or even the entire IT organization.

AVVAL Capabilities Review, How it works - To start, we first analyze your current IT organization including…

Where is your IT organization at right now?
You have to know where you started, so we review your IT organization’s current state of health.

What’s going on around your IT organization?
What externalities are affecting your IT? The economy, the competitive environment for jobs, your geographic location - these are all factors that impinge on your ability to get the IT resources you need, to conduct your business effectively. We help you analyze your environment, so you clearly understand the dynamics and synergies that are affecting your IT organization.

Where does your IT organization want to go and what challenges may arise on the road to getting there?
Your company has goals and strategies. Where does your business strategy want to be 3-5 years down the road, and what challenges could stop your IT organization from getting your company there?

How do you get from where your IT organization is at now, to where it needs to be?
Being forewarned is being forearmed. Defining where you are now and knowing where you want to be, helps you create the road map you need. The next step is to work out how to get your IT from where it is – point A on the map - to where it needs to be – point B.

What is the current state of your IT workforce?
We look at management, key people, and general resources with regards to...
What IT skills and the experience level for they have for those skills. We also look at skills that may not be a current part of their job role, including self taught IT learning, that may possibly provide a basis for training for transitioning to new technologies.
We look the number of productive hours per individual.
We ask, "How do you do things? Are there bottlenecks? Do you have back up or redundancy where needed?"
We look at what resources are you currently using, both in-house and contract, and how effective they are with respect to their skill, competency, and engagement.
We look at how productive each resource is, in "person hours" with respect to their skill, competency, and engagement.

We review your current IT organizational structure
We do an analysis of reporting relations ships, responsibility, accountability among individuals, departments, and teams, including both in-house and contract workers to identify work flow patterns and problems.

Your IT resource skill/competency/count/engagement gap
Once we know what IT resources you already have in terms of types and skills and roles, and work flow with respect to productivity in person hours, we have metrics which can be compared with the estimate of what IT resources you will need to reach your business goals. The difference between the two parameters: "what resources you have" in terms of capabilities, and "what resources you need" to reach your goal will define your resource gap.

The resource gap
Your resource gap is the crucial parameter that defines in concrete and fairly precise terms, how you need to plan your talent acquisition in order to execute business strategies. This parameter is presented to you in a report that will quantify the gap in terms of IT resources, their skills, and experience level.