If your company, government agency, or NGO is contemplating Organizational Assessment to help achieve specific outcomes set by your organization's leadership, there's a good chance you are wondering – where do I begin?
Organizational assessments go by many different monikers – Organizational Analysis, Organizational Development, Organizational Evaluation, Organizational Readiness Assessment, and Change Management Readiness Assessment and increasing the confusion factor.
Our Insight post The Benefits of an Organizational Assessment reviewed four types of Organizational Assessments:
Business Operations
Cultural Health
Organization-wide Leadership Capability
Organizational Health
The framework for accomplishing each of the four assessment types is essentially the same. Tools & techniques may differ slightly depending on your organization’s size, geography/global locations, and other factors.
The method Brookey & Company uses for all four types of Organizational Assessments is market vertical agnostic – and can be applied to Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Sports & Entertainment, Biotech, Software companies, and Public Sector organizations. The scope of the effort is scaled to fit the size of an organization.
We often suggest clients begin their transformation with one of two types of Organizational Assessments:
Business Operations - Solve immediate, urgent problems or perform larger scale analysis of your organization’s process efficiency
Organizational Health – Review of an organization’s processes, alignment with business goals, resource allocation, and effectiveness of systems.
The fact that you’re reading this Insight is a good indicator of interest in beginning your organizational transformation. Recognize that organizational assessments often generate results requiring sweeping changes to culture and process. Your management team must be ready and willing to accept and implement change.
Where do I begin?
Baselining your organizations’ current state is the critical first step
Utilize the baseline results to identify areas for improvement
Prioritize the areas for improvement, estimate implementation cost by organizational or business unit (offset by efficiency gains and profit optimization), establishing measurement criteria set to produce an Improvement Roadmap
Use the Improvement Roadmap to chart the first steps of your transformation journey
Identify quick wins to begin solving your high-priority challenges
Brookey & Company helps guide your implementation of the Improvement Roadmap, positioning your team for a successful internal transformation project
Why invest in an Organizational Assessment?
A low cost and highly beneficial method for organizations of all sizes and types to begin (or continue) the transformation towards a continuous improvement culture
Quickly discover organizational shortcomings and use Brookey & Company's Improvement Roadmap to achieve greater agility, competitive advantage, and improve cost-effectiveness
Establish the starting point for cost or managerial restructuring, digital transformation initiatives, risk management for rapidly growing companies, new market entry, M&A integration, profit optimization
Contact us today for a 30 minute, no-obligation initial consultation to learn how our team can help your organization realize its full potential. We are pleased to accommodate global clientele with online meetings scheduled within your time zone. Please schedule an appointment by completing our Contact Form or call us at 1+ 858.568.7788 for additional information.
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