TSC SWOT

• Strengths
  • Clear focus on delineated governance and management activities
  • Respected, committed, highly experienced membership
  • Support from HQ
  • Open, transparent, and responsive
  • Proactive

• Weakness
  • Limited time
  • Limited control over resources
  • Inconsistent support from Board and Working Groups
  • Lack of effective process for bringing in external proposed standards.
  • Lack of clear definition of the endorsement of external 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, user groups, 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)
  • Lack of adequate governance, management, curation and support processes to manage our standards and the resulting profiles that are created.

Approved by TSC 2014-09-13