Enterprise Pain Points
To better understand why an enterprise experiences subpar performance to complete failure it must identify the broad challenges related to the business, organizational, and technology architectures. By identifying the primary business barriers, organizational forces, and technology limitations an enterprise can determine the magnitude, scale, and scope of the enterprise challenges.
Furthermore this provides a systematic means to establish the context an enterprise uses to create sustainable synergy through continual transformational change. The challenges that an enterprise faces can be viewed with the two lenses of its workspace and workplace that impact the enterprise’s business viability and organizational vitality:
| Competitive Checkmate | The enterprise struggles to effectively compete within the same marketplace and incapable of achieving desired market results in order to maintain enterprise viability. |
| Enterprise Stalemate | A position of an enterprise where it cannot create transformational change that leads to a lack of sustainable synergy in order to sustain enterprise vitality. |
| Business Gridlock | Occurs in which little or no progress is made toward achieving objectives, fulfilling directives, and accomplishing initiatives because of business barriers that exist throughout the workspace. |
| Organizational Inertia | The resistance to enterprise change and poor stakeholder management because of organizational forces at play within the workplace. |
| Technology Breakdown | The inability to function at optimal capability because of the misalignment and mis-utilization of technology capabilities and services throughout the enterprise. |
Take the following rapid assessment to identify the primary pain points within the business, organizational, and technology frames of reference: