Benefits

Enterprise SPICE will provide the following benefits to stakeholders:

• Single Unified Model: the model integrates practices from the widely recognized standards and sources of best practice; no need to use many separate standards and models concurrently - they are consolidated into a single unified model
• Pick and Choose: select from the model those areas relevant to your business needs
• Authoritative: provides best guidance available drawn from widely recognized standards and sources, with detailed mapping tables tracing each practice to sources if further information desired/required
• Comprehensive: addresses a broad, and expanding, range of disciplines
• Synergized: sources integrated, harmonized, and synergized; each source contributes important perspectives
• Reduced Costs:
  • Training on one model, not several
  • Improvement using one model, not several, leading to simultaneous improvement vs. all sources; compliant processes address best practice from multiple standards
  • Avoids duplication of effort
  • Appraisals vs. one model, not several, leading to simultaneous multiple ratings/ certification if desired/required
• Enhanced Effectiveness via Integrated Guidance:
  • For all levels from enterprise to team processes
  • For large or small business units
  • Across disciplines for multidisciplinary teams
  • Aligns business and technical processes
  • Across all product and service life cycle phases/activities
  • Improvement initiatives can be aligned across the enterprise
• Certification: certification services from (accredited) bodies through PATHFINDER assessment and certification of process capability or organizational maturity