Is Your Organization Strategic?

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Please select one answer for each question

1. Does everyone in your company have the same definition of strategy?
Yes No
2. Do people understand the difference between goals, objectives, strategies and tactics?
Yes No
3. Have all managers been educated on what strategy is and how they can develop it for their level of work?
Yes No
4. Does your group have clear strategies in written form?
Yes No
5. Are people at all levels using strategy to drive their daily activities?
Yes No
6. Has your business been profitably growing for the past six months?
Yes No
7. Is the corporate strategy translated for relevance to the hierarchical levels and functional areas of the organization?
Yes No
8. Does your group have a clear understanding of which types of potential customers you've strategically chosen not to serve?
Yes No
9. Do your offerings provide clearly differentiated value customers are willing to pay for versus having a price-driven commodity status?
Yes No
10. Does the group's purpose (mission, vision, values) influence behavior?
Yes No
11. Is time set aside on a monthly basis to discuss strategy?
Yes No
12. Does your group conduct strategic thinking sessions separately from budget, operational and tactical meetings?
Yes No
13. Do you have a formal strategy development process in place?
Yes No
14. Is the strategy process facilitated by someone with strategy expertise, an objective perspective and no internal stake in the outcome?
Yes No
15. Do you have a 1-2 page strategic action plan to drive your daily activities?
Yes No
16. Is your strategic action plan updated at least monthly to reflect changes and remain useful throughout the year?
Yes No
17. Do managers use at least 6 of the 40 strategic thinking tools to help them develop their strategies?
Yes No
18. Does the organization have a communication channel in place to receive competitive, customer and market insights from all employees?
Yes No
19. Are the different functional groups (marketing, sales, HR, R&D, etc.) all aware of each other's strategies and how they fit together?
Yes No
20. Do you have true competitive advantage in the market?
Yes No