Predicting the future is not about crystal balls, reading entrails, or interpreting Nostradamus's quatrains. It is about understanding the most fundamental question in business: where is value today and where is it headed? Or what are my customers currently paying for and what will that be tomorrow?
Our organizational assessment FORECAST is the start of a process to capture an accurate and complete picture of your business. It allows a company to determine where and how value is being created and for whom, and what core competence is required to make this competitive advantage a reality.
Once we understand the competitive advantage opportunity of your market and position in that niche, we can help you identify the barriers and causes of gaps. FORECAST's analysis capabilities bring the internal barriers and causes, the upset conditions, to the scrutiny of all effected members of the organization.
Our research group designed FORECAST to be a flexible and customizable assessment to fit your unique issues. It is built on 26 micro-assessments such as Process Management and Customer Enthusiasm and can even evaluate your readiness for ISO as an example. Our ability to customize is limited only by the creativity of your questions.
The Four Critical Strategic Elements of Growth:
- Competitive Advantage: (MARKET INTELLIGENCE) The essence of understanding market leadership, it identifies where the organization can excel and is the matched set for Core Competency. Competitive Advantage exist in both real time and the future, understanding the under or unserved needs with significant financial gain of a targeted niche.
- Core Competence: (BRAND SUPERIORITY) It starts with brand, and what makes your brand superior in the eyes of the customer. Not just a marketing campaign, it is about perceived customer benefits of your end product and the experience of buying and using, it must be difficult for competitors to imitate, and finally creates uniqueness from anyone else.
- Discretionary Performance: (TALENT) The amount of performance the organization can capture beyond what is required. Typically, standards are set artificially low. No business is able to sustain itself when people do the minimum. Every successful company has a competitive advantage through people who work harder then required or compensated.
- Productive Capacity: (OPERATIONS) The essence of your business model, it measures the organization's ability to provide products, services, and customer enthusiasm to specified markets. It is the delivery component for Core Competency.
Our assessment library includes:
- Clarity of Vision, Mission, Values
- Competitive Advantage
- Vertical and Horizontal Alignment
- Internal Operations and Support Processes
- High Performance Employment Systems
- Core Competence
- Performance Management
- Knowledge Management
- Team Effectiveness & Focus
- Learning & Growth
- Change Readiness & Management
- Customer & Market Dynamics
- Organizational Structure
- Environmental Dynamics
- Horizontal Links to Client Development
- Horizontal Links to Market & Innovation
- Leadership Effectiveness
- Sales Effectiveness
- Employee Inspiration
- Customer Enthusiasm
- Customer Intelligence
- Market Intelligence
- Competitive Intelligence
- Baldridge Award
- Innovation Management
- Process Management
- Quality Management
- Technology Management
- Project Management
- Management Efficiency
- Training System
- Productive Capacity
- Canada’s Best Managed Companies
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