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Ascertaining organizational maturity is important when an IT organization has determined that it wants to improve. Our approach assesses the current state and then identifies the key areas to address and the benefit of addressing those areas. Too many organizations strive for maturity levels that do not provide value to the business.

The key to success: define the business needs and mature enough to deliver to that. Our pragmatic results give you that capability

Creating repeatable and manageable processes is essential to delivering IT services. Repeatability creates sustainability, eases implementation and training, and enables improvement. Processes are aligned to policies, and it's the measurement of process execution success aligned to policies that create the continuous improvement environments.

Developments of products occur much more rapidly using these deliberate techniques than by accident. Many people known for being creative use these techniques, but are not aware they are doing so because they have not been formally trained in them. If you use these deliberate techniques during advanced brainstorming sessions then you too will be more creative.

With practice, ongoing creative thinking (the continuous investigation, questioning and analysis that develops through education, training and self-awareness) occurs all the time. Ongoing creativity maximizes both accidental and deliberate creative thinking. Ongoing creativity takes time and deliberate practice to become skillful at, but it's surprising how quickly it becomes an attitude, not a technique.