TSC SWOT

• 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
  • Process for bringing in external standards beyond IGs not established.

• Opportunities
  • Linkage with Strategic Initiatives
  • Business Architecture Model development offers improved Governance and Management to match existing Methodology strengths
  • Change to Intellectual Property licensing at no cost
  • Clearly designate our product line and product identification
  • Emergence of new and contemporary technology including FHIR and semantic web ontologies
  • Improve Product Quality
  • 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
  • Change to Intellectual Property licensing at no cost
  • 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

Approved by TSC 2013-09-25