Working Groups are one of the core activities of ITANA. As such, they play a large roll in fulfilling our capabilities. A capability scan is a good way to start out your group. It helps you define your scope and deliverables in a common way across groups. It also ensures that your work is aligned with the goals a mission of ITANA. This short article walks you through a quick capability scan. This shouldn’t take more than one or two meetings of your team to complete. The outcome of the scan is a great way to communicate your team’s goals and deliverables back with ITANA.
When you start up your group, have a look at ITANA’s Capability Map( - http://itana.org/capability-map/). Think about how this group helps support the strategic capabilities. Below are some guiding questions and examples.
These Strategic Capabilities are critical to ITANA and to your group’s success. Focusing on how your group will deliver these outcomes is a good foundational activity for your team.
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The Service Capabilities are the things we do to deliver the strategic capabilities. Your group will need to deliver a collaboration service, a content creation service, an instructional service and networking service. You should ask questions about how you will build and deliver these services for your group. Questions you might ask are:
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