MB Worksoft, the e-Business enablement company in the JSE-listed MB Technologies group, has launched its free e-Business Quotient initiative, designed to test organisations` readiness to embrace the world of e-Business.
"e-Business is a non-negotiable for almost all organisations today," says MB Worksoft MD Mark Gilfillan. "It will become the standard for conducting business in the future and offers almost limitless business opportunities.
But how ready are organisations to tackle this challenging new world? How much do their systems have to be modified? Do they have any way of assessing their state of readiness? What must they do to their processes and technology to ensure they are e-Business ready? How digitally ready are they?"
These and many other questions are posed and answered by MB Worksoft`s e-Business Quotient, which is to be found on MB Worksoft`s web site at http://www.mbworksoft.co.za.
"The e-Business quotient will give managers a snapshot evaluation of their organisations` ability to use IT to compete in the new economy," says Gilfillan. "The quotient provides an assessment of an organisation`s current status, and a baseline against which management can track the impact of initiatives to e-Business enable their organisation."
Once a visitor has filled in the e-Business Quotient and submitted the questionnaire, the site calculates the visitor`s quotient, with of the maximum being 100.
"Anyone who is on 100 or close to it can probably teach us something!" says Gilfillan.
The e-Business Quotient comprises 12 sections:
The level of staff`s access to computers
Their degree of computer literacy
The extent to which the organisation is networked
The level to which e-mail has permeated the organisation
How collaboration tools are used within the organisation, if at all
The role the organisation`s web site plays in external communication and online business
Whether the organisation has an extranet, and if so, how well it is used
The role e-commerce is currently playing and its future in the organisation
How well internal systems have been integrated
How much data is structured and how much unstructured
Whether knowledge management has become a corporate imperative
How far the organisation has gone with customer relationship management programmes
MB Worksoft has drawn together more than 15 companies which together provide a complete set of offerings in the e-Business domain.
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