Quantifying the Value of Collaboration
Through extensive market research and the experience that comes from working with thousands of companies over the past three decades, Capgemini has identified four key elements of collaboration. Considered individually and as a whole, these four dimensions form a picture of an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, needs, and priorities. Capgemini uses a methodology that is able to quantify and qualify all four dimensions, allowing us to assess how best to collaborate with our clients to achieve better, faster, and more sustainable results.
Targeting Value
- To improve performance, you have to know exactly what you want to achieve and then establish targets all along the path your project will take.
Mitigating Risk
- Project failure is a major concern. This dimension reflects Capgemini’s attention to understanding the stakes of an initiative, and the level of risk our client perceives to be inherent in the initiative. This allows Capgemini to manage these risks, reducing the chance that obstacles will slow down value realization.
Optimizing Capabilities
- The optimizing capabilities dimension refers to the two-way transfer of knowledge during the project, and to efforts by Capgemini and our clients to ensure that the know-how and support necessary to sustain the value of the project is in place upon completion of the initiative.
Aligning the Organization
- Initiatives often fail to provide lasting value because implementation fails or is delayed within the organization. This failure can result from a number of causes. Knowing what might inhibit implementation can shape the nature of a collaborative project and accelerate the realization of project value.
