IT Capabilities Assessment: free download

I got chatting with a Microsoft partner on Friday about the People Ready Business Campaign and how we can help organisations understand the implications of investing in software. I remembered the IT Capabilities Assessment tool we launched a while back in conjunction with the Keystone research. This tool is freely downloadable and allows a company to profile their IT capability against 600 other organisations based on a series of questions about IT, Finance, Operations, Marketing etc. I guess people are going to be intentionally sceptical of this stuff but given it was developed by Microsoft and the independent research firm Keystone Strategy, under the direction of Professor Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School that should give it some more credibility. You end up with something like this - which is my fictitious company that has invested in IT. The green arrows show the company and the white show the 600 company average. Naturally my company has lots of software :)