Checklist of items to consider when forming a new department:

What is your department's core competency?

What does your department need to unlearn?

What policies should be instituted?

What type of organizational structure should be in place?

What is your product and how will you develop it?

What type of staff development and training processes will you construct?

What type of budget will be necessary in this new environment?

How will you measure performance?

How will your department work with internal and external stakeholders (what are the communication issues)?

What competencies, resources and processes are needed to achieve your transformation?

What can you cease doing?

What type of technology will you employ?

How will you market your services?

* all items extracted from: Kramer, Robert J. Post-merger organization handbook (New York: Conference Board, c1999).