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*Strengths
**Clear focus on delineated governance and management activities
** Respected, highly experienced membership
** Committed membership
** Support from board, HQ, and Work Group members
** Open, transparent, and responsive
**Proactive

*Weakness
** Limited time
** Limited control over resources
**Support from Board, HQ, and Working Group but still sometimes we don't get the support we need from the Board and members
**Process for bringing in external proposed standards.
** Linkage with Strategic Initiatives

*Opportunities
**Business Architecture Model development offers improved Governance and Management to match existing Methodology strengths
**Change to Intellectual Property licensing at no cost 
**Increased uptake by national programs 
**Clearly designate our product line and product identification
**Emergence of new and contemporary technology including FHIR and semantic web ontologies
**Leverage new membership benefits for IP management, help desk and conformance testing, in dealing with technical issues. 
**Provide mechanisms to allow vitality assessment throughout the organization; define criteria for trigger events: including ability to define processes for assessment, provide strategic and tactical guidance to the EC and Board.

*Threats
**Creating overheads without visible return
**Improve Product Quality
**Lack of confidence in standards management creates vacuum for Profiler/Enforcer creating their own healthcare interoperability standards
**Increasing numbers of mandates coming from the US Realm
**Lack of clear governance surrounding new member benefits e.g. user groups, help desk
**Keeping up with increased uptake of our standards (e.g. FHIR)

Approved by TSC 2014-09-13