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How to Uncover Breakthrough Improvement Opportunities without Consultants

Need a performance breakthrough but don’t want to pay a high-cost consulting firm to evaluate your organization’s performance? Want a solution that can be used over and over again across your entire company?
 
Sevian Business Performance Assessment ProgramStrategyDriven released its Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program, an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance.

StrategyDriven was founded on the principle of making top-tier consulting services affordably available to the leaders of small and midsized businesses and the mid-level managers and professionals of larger companies. In a radical departure from the traditional consulting model, we offer our clients the assessment method and analytical tools used by top-tier consulting firms; greatly reducing if not eliminating the need for outside experts and their associated costs.

And why not? Talented employees familiar with their company’s day-to-day operations are often capable of performing assessments more rapidly than outsiders. All they need is the method and analytical tools enabling the revelation of self-critical performance improvement insights. And if an outside perspective is needed, our advisors provide that support via phone, video conference, or onsite in whatever amount desired – no more, no less, no long-term contract… you decide.

Based on decades of operational and assessment experience, StrategyDriven’s turnkey Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program is fully customized to reflect our clients’ organization structure, positional titles, and common business terms. Each program contains all the components necessary to implement a fully mature assessment on day one – truly enabling turnkey performance excellence. Supported by world-class software applications (optional), the program package includes:

  • Program Introduction establishing the framework for immediate program implementation, effective execution, and long-term governance.
  • Program Procedure containing specific step-by-step process procedures that are fully human factored to ensure consistent, accurate program execution.
  • Program Execution Guides providing detailed information on how to optimally perform major assessment activities including the use of program forms and models.
  • Program Principles, Best Practices, and Warning Flags elaborating on those core elements necessary for consistently superior program and process performance.

To ensure implementation success, we provide onsite training and execution support when the program is delivered.

StrategyDriven Advisors possess decades of experience helping leaders of small to Fortune 500 companies define and implement the complex, mission-critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and reduce costs. Isn’t it about time these people were working for you?

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StrategyDriven Releases a Turnkey Business Performance Assessment Program

StrategyDriven’s turnkey Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program provides business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance.
 
Sevian Business Performance Assessment ProgramStrategyDriven released its Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program providing business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance. The assessment program contains fully developed process procedures, forms and templates, performance metrics, how-to guides, and a library of best practices.

“The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program exemplifies StrategyDriven’s commitment to providing business leaders with high-quality, affordable solutions,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Our assessment solution embodies decades of experience in the evaluation of organizational performance; tested methods that have supported an unparalleled amount of performance improvement at companies both large and small.”

“In 2014 alone, Sevian Business Performance Assessments identified over $200 million in people, process, and technology improvement opportunities at four client companies,” continues Karen Juliano, StrategyDriven Vice President in charge of Sevian Business Program development. “Not only is this program cost effective to implement, but it yields real and immediate benefits.”

The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program was developed based on decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. This program was further enhanced through the first-hand performance benchmarking of leading companies throughout the world.

Sevian Business Performance Assessment Programs are fully customized to reflect client organization structure, positional titles, and common business terms. Each program contains all the components necessary to implement a fully mature program on day one – truly enabling

turnkey performance excellence. Supported by world-class software applications (optional), the program package includes:

  • Program Introduction establishing the framework for immediate program implementation, effective execution, and long-term governance.
  • Program Procedure containing specific step-by-step process procedures that are fully human factored to ensure consistent, accurate program execution.
  • Program Execution Guides providing detailed information on how to optimally perform major assessment activities including the use of program forms and models.
  • Program Principles, Best Practices, and Warning Flags elaborating on those core elements necessary for consistently superior program and process performance.

To ensure implementation success, Sevian Business Advisors provide onsite training and execution support when delivering the turnkey program.

The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program is being implemented by StrategyDriven’s clients, including some of the world’s largest companies. Complete information regarding the Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program is available at: www.strategydriven.com/sbpap.

Evaluation and Control Program Warning Flag 4 – Purple Words

Evaluation and Control Program Warning FlagAll organizations and individuals have a history and within these experiences reside events which those persons involved would just as soon forget. These experiences typically involved significant loss or other discomfort that negatively impacted the psyche of the organization as a whole or the associated individual(s). Often, some key words and/or phrases become forever related to these painful experiences. Whenever these words are spoken or read, they elicit a strongly negative emotional response as individuals are jolted back into the memory of the disastrous event. Acting on this emotion, these individuals may strike out at or withdraw from the individual(s) using these words. Thus, these words or phrases have come to be collectively known as Purple Words.


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About the Author

Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Evaluation and Control Warning Flag 2 – Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence

StrategyDriven Evaluation and Control Warning FlagWhen examining organizational performance, assessors too often fall into the trap of concluding that the absence of adverse outcomes indicates a lack of underlying performance issues. This is an evidential fallacy. Many organizational shortfalls exist without causing consequential outcomes for reasons of redundant barrier prevention, lack of recognition, or simply blind dumb luck. The lack of a noticeable consequence does not necessarily equate to an absence of an issue; it simply means that the problem itself, up until the point of examination, has not manifested itself in a substantial outcome.


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Evaluation and Control Program Best Practice 3 – Assess the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

Thomas Murner (1475 – 1537)
German satirist and poet
Author of Appeal to Fools

Many business professionals almost singularly focused on identifying and fixing ‘the ugly’ – shortcomings that result in their organization’s most adverse outcomes. This focus is understandable as extremely poor performance can cause irreparable damage. The approach, however, omits critical examination of a range of organizational performance, ‘the good’ and ‘the bad;’ placing the organization at risk of achieving only suboptimal performance.


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