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The business assessment & review should cover people, processes, products, and partners, and should be performed objectively to remove any bias or tunnel vision, with the goal to accelerate performance and lift organizational maturity.

With frequent disruptions and rapid change, over-complexity and uncertainty, organizations have to continually learn, grow, adjust, and improve; do not ignore the relevant information and invaluable feedback because it informs you with greater clarity, and helps you overcome challenges. 

Insightful leaders are able to position and lead the organization via periodical review, objective assessment to ensure it addresses both organizational effectiveness and efficiency, agility and innovation, flexibility and scalability. 

Generate a comprehensive list of the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, goals, and objectives based on self-evaluation and feedback results: Organizations are at the different stages of the business development cycle with their own set of strengths and weaknesses. The strength, weakness, opportunity, threat analysis process is one of the practical tools in the entire strategy process typically used for top level strategic analysis and positioning of the company, stakeholder analysis, and problem analysis, etc. The most important piece is the process of analysis, discussion, and level of engagement from varying stakeholders. The most important point in the SWOT Analysis is how to eliminate or reduce subjectivity and how to prioritize by category. Also, there are many other tools for analyzing the customer need profile, value stream and competitive environment that provide the color needed to improve organizational competency.

In some organizations, in-depth business analysis and organizational review has moved from being ”gathering-pot” of executive opinions to a better organized, fact-based analysis which can be discussed and verified across the organization. It has moved from being a "gut-feel" view of the firm's current market attractiveness and competitive position to something which can be validated through advanced research and comprehensive information based analysis. Individually, self-evaluations are a key way and motivator to get the individual being reviewed into the formalized process, provide a person's perceived value through their own lens, ensure that everyone has their say and has buy-in to the process. The managers will gain insight as to what the individual has contributed and deems important through a self-evaluation process. The continuous performance management method is to track the performance against the company results periodically.

Annual feedback from employees is one of the key aspects of continuous business improvement: In the business reality, feedback should be presented to employees or customers as a mechanism for collecting meaningful feedback since the organization values their opinions and perceptions. It can provide invaluable inputs to reveal what the associates are thinking and how they perceive their working environment, corporate brand name, or their management effectiveness. Such input must be shared transparently and acted upon with high visibility.

Do employee surveys for their feedback about ideal cultures. This will not only have a performance and goal review but also guarantee alignment with corporate goals. What the assessment measures are the underlying motivational drivers, whether at individual or collective organizational level. that drives one's focus, mental map, decision-making style, relationship to norms, time and change, etc. Together these patterns ultimately drive individual or collective behavior, actions, and performance. Regarding the performance and behavioral reviews of higher levels of management and support personnel above the front line, what the evaluations look like really depends on the business model. As long as the data is organized independently and cumulatively, it can still be quite easy to compile for those semi-annual and annual business reviews.

An effective feedback scoreboard is readable to categorize and learn the most invaluable feedback while highlighting important aspects of decision guidance: Forward thinking companies appreciate their staff’s opinions and encourage them to express their opinions and provide invaluable feedback for the business to improve. A feedback scoreboard displays the information that can be customized and categorized to meet the management needs. It helps to evaluate the employees’ ability to provide feedback, or their attitude and ability to improve by receiving constructive feedback. It also helps businesses to review a set of measures that could predict business performance and make effective decisions for continuous improvement.

Treat feedback as information, you have the choice what story you put to it. An effective feedback scorecard was developed to try to recognize the invaluable and distinguished voices in your organization, encourage employees to practice independent thinking and critical reasoning skills, provide input for the organizations to improve, and become change agents or customer champions by interacting with customers or inspecting business processes/capacities, for improving organizational maturity.

Making an objective business assessment is both art and science. It’s important to balance a diverse viewpoint of performance management by selecting the right measures and measuring them right. As businesses embark on the “Digital Era” of computing, managing the assessment is a great way to identify what is right and wrong in your environment and how you can keep optimizing processes, improving management discipline, and leveraging limited resources and time to “do more with innovation.” The business assessment & review should cover people, processes, products, and partners, and should be performed objectively to remove any bias or tunnel vision from internal staff members, with the goal to accelerate performance and lift organizational maturity.

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