Technology & Workforce Assessment Services — Skills & Resources for Strategic Planning

We provide assessment services to evaluate current supported applications along with the skills and resources currently utilized to maintain those applications. From the people to the technology in place and needed, the focus of an assessment is to address the goals of the business today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

Keeping an eye on your strategic plan, we will consider how far into the future to project your Assessment is truly appropriate. This includes balancing the certainty of short-range planning against the need to plan for longer-range objectives.

An Assessment typically includes:

• Strategy Assessment — Review of all pertinent strategic plans and directives and the workforce and technology implications of these.
• Environmental Scan — Conduct an internal and external SWOT analysis and a supply and demand analysis.
• Gap Analysis — Analyze your current talent and technology against short and long term future needs.
• Gap Closing Strategies — Development of staffing and technology strategies including a competency model for your recruitment and selection, performance management, and training and development strategies.
• Evaluation — Establish performance measures to determine the success for your assessment.

We feel that it is very important to conduct a SWOT, Supply and Demand, and Gap Analyses before we recommend and you implement workforce and technology strategies.  Organizations often jump directly to implementing gap-closing strategies without understanding their underlying workforce and technology issues leading to ineffective strategies and wasted resources.  Completing these three Analyses is a developmental process that puts the tools in place to do ongoing planning, and action to have a high quality organization.

Critical Success Factors

By keeping in mind the following factors, your chances of successfully implementing your assessment will be significantly improved.

• Top management/leadership support.
• Support from project managers and HR managers.
• Resource involvement.
• Timely, accurate, and open communication.
• Link to other strategic planning processes.
• Availability of accurate input data.
• Detailed implementation plans.
• Keep it simple.  Identify those factors that your assessment must address.

Why QAT?

QAT has successfully developed and implemented large-scale solutions for customers around the globe, using the latest technologies. We bring to our customers our knowledge of the industry as well as practical knowledge on current IT trends and technologies. Our focus on Assessments is based on our strong experience in IT staffing and our intimate knowledge of IT services processes and practices.