Is your strategic business plan relying on partnerships with larger companies? Are you ready for that partnership?

Prepare yourself by taking the Capability Diagnostic and demonstrate your competency!

Objective

Position your company as 'partnering ready' to your market  

Scope

Your company. Everyone that will be participating in future alliance work should be queried. 

How does it work

In order for your company to receive attention when suggesting a partnership, you must be able to indicate your ability to support partnering activities effectively and efficiently. The diagnostic should aim for:

1. Accurately and objectively assessing what your level of ability is today.
2. Which areas you must address

The rest is easy!

Invite your colleagues to participate (make it mandatory) and describe the time frame and procedure for them. Once you see that all participants have finished and submitted their answers, you turn to the reporting feature that comes with all versions of the Diagnostic. You navigate through the BI-style reporting, taking clues from the graphs, and develop insights into variations among the answers your team members provided.

No you are armed with actionable knowledge about the state of your team and can develop a highly focused initiative to address such issues as:

• A new team member indicates a significant lack of understanding of the existing procedures, templates, etc.
• Team members in remote locations (overseas?) indicate a consistent challenge with specific practices which don't seem to be a problem in the HQ
• Your desire to partner with 'a Goliath' requires you to be able to functional at a higher level of ability than the diagnostic results indicate.
• etc.