e-Strategy Pure and Simple
Chapter One
Strategic Fuzziness ²: Page Five

What is the Strategic Quotient Of Your Organization?

The following survey is designed to have you assess the Strategic I.Q. of your organization and to determine which quadrant you fall into. The survey is designed to be answered by the CEO and the Management Committee. The respondents should answer the questions individually, without consulting each other, and their answers compared afterwards. If you wish to have an objective assessment of these answers, DPI will gladly do it for you and do an "audit" of your strategy.

1. Do you have a well-articulated, clear statement of strategy?

Yes [Score 10]

No [Score 1]

2. Could each member of your management team write a one-or-two sentence statement of that strategy without consulting each other?

All could 10

Some could 5

None could 1

3. Do you have your strategy in written form?

Yes 10

No 5

4. Do you and they use this statement as a guide for the choices you make together when deciding which future products, customers, and markets your company pursues?

Use frequently 10

Use sometimes 5

Never Use 1

5. Do you and they use this statement as a guide to decide which products, customers and markets your company does not pursue?

Use frequently 10

Use sometimes 5

Never use 0

6. Do you use this statement as a tool to decide how resources are allocated within your company?

Use frequently 10

Use sometimes 5

Never use 1

7. Do you use this statement as a tool to choose which opportunities your company pursues and which ones it doesn't?

Use frequently 10

Use sometimes 5

Never use 1

8. Have you ever sat down as a management team to try to obtain consensus as to the future direction of the organization?

Regularly 10

Once in a while 3

Never 1

9. Was consensus obtained or are there still different visions of what the organization is trying to become?

One vision 10

Several visions 1

No vision 1

10. Do you have a separate process of strategic thinking to determine what you want to become as opposed to how you get there?

Formal, codified process 10

No process 1

Total Score: ______