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Choose your industry

Before we start, which industry is your organization in?

To what extent are both purpose and strategy integrated into your organization?

Do you regularly challenge your strategy process, and can you also adapt it in practice - for example, by shifting resources?

On a scale of 1 (tend to stick with the existing strategy and are slow to adapt it) to 4 (regularly challenge it and are able to quickly adapt it).

How do you measure your culture and ensure that you have shared and acknowledged values? 

We believe that a robust organization's leadership is based on bold decision-making, vision, ideas, empowerment and embracing new perspectives.

To what extent do these aspects reflect your approach?

We agree with this statement and support this leadership style through specific initiatives (training, incentive systems).
We agree with this statement, but we have not implemented specific initiatives.
We partly agree with this statement, but we also consider other aspects of leadership to be relevant.

Do your incentive and working mechanisms support your culture and values, for example, by creating new ideas, challenging the status quo and through cooperation?

What principle do you follow when allocating human resources to ensure the development of talented individuals within the organization? Do you follow strict reporting lines, or do you deploy individuals beyond solid reporting lines (for example, via project work with coordination mechanisms based on dotted-line reporting)?

Do you see yourselves as successful at identifying potential and attracting and retaining talent?

How would you rate your decision-making and structure in terms of enabling a rapid shift of priorities?

A robust organization relies on standardized support (e.g. Finance, HR) and strong business functions (e.g. Supply Chain, IT, R&D). It also has clear rules to ensure the necessary flexibility for pursuing business priorities.

How does your organization do with respect to these two principles, on a scale of 1 (decentralized, no clear set of rules) to 4 (centralized, shared services, clear set of rules)?

We believe that assessing changes, opportunities and potential risks in your environment is a substantial part of robustness. How comprehensive is your risk management framework (risk identification, analysis, communication and monitoring)?

Looking at your financial possibilities, which of the following best describes your liquidity planning capabilities?

If an excellent opportunity were to open up, how fast and flexibly could you shift financial resources, both internally and externally?

Protecting the business and securing the future of your organization requires alignment between the short and long-term strategy and the investment portfolio. What is the situation with regard to your capital allocation and investment portfolio?

Ecosystems can be of great use, not only for sensing changes and trends but also for building up strategic partnerships. 

To what extent do you leverage your ecosystem?

We actively scan our ecosystem for trends and changes, and also leverage strategic partnerships for knowhow, resources and value-creation options.
We actively scan the ecosystem for trends and changes but only partially leverage strategic partnerships.
We mostly observe and scan our ecosystem.
We neither scan our ecosystem nor build strategic partnerships.

We believe that customer-centricity is not a methodology but a mindset.

At what level do you listen to your customers and integrate their feedback into your products and development activities?

Pandemics, geopolitical restrictions and other regulations have revealed vulnerabilities in value and supply chains.

How flexible (or inflexible) are your value and supply chain partnerships?

How would you describe your processes for aligning digital and IT responsibilities with business needs?

We believe that the future of IT systems lies in modular and integrated setups that ensure scalability and flexibility. How would you rate your readiness in this respect?

In terms of your technological capability, do you have the skills (or access to the skills) to swiftly respond to ideas and business needs with digital technology and IT systems?

Yes, we can quickly respond to ideas business needs with digital technology and IT systems.
We can often respond to business needs with digital technology and IT systems.
We need time to respond to business requirements.
We are often very slow in responding to ideas and business needs.

Mechanisms for using and sharing data, information and knowledge can be a key enabler for organizations. How good are you at this?

We are very good at sharing data, information and knowledge right across the organization.
We mostly share data, information and knowledge within business units and/or teams.
We are limited in sharing data, information and knowledge both across the organizations and within teams. 

To what extent do you agree with the following statement? "Flexibility and slack carry more weight than efficiency these days"

If you had to prioritize either new growth (including new opportunities) or strengthening the current core of your business, which would you choose?

To what extent do you feel like your company is facing a wide variety of challenges owing to different degrees of maturity (organizational, cultural, technological, and on on) within the organization?

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