How do you stack up?
Big Bang consultants developed free assessments to allow you to see the areas of improvement for your organization in a simple chart. It’s a great way to improve your strategy and planning sessions or to uncover where to start with critical improvements.
Each assessment comprises three topics and takes no more than 5 minutes to complete. At the end, you will have a graphic showing how strong you are on three axes.
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Uncover opportunities concerning your people, processes, or technology with the global organizational assessment. When you do, get a pyramid that shows exactly how you stack up.
Time to complete: 5 minutes (approx)
During the interview process, though testing or other means, we ensure the values of the company are shared by employees. Employees working at the company can easily express the mission and vision in their own words.
Decisions usually come from company leaders or directors. Leaders have the appropriate information to make a decision quickly.
The resources have the right skills and knowledge for the product/service offer to be delivered with the right quality. When asked, customers are generally satisfied with the result of the product/service and would recommend your company to a friend or colleague.
We always work with guidelines and manuals and people know where to find the right information or who to ask for help.
There is an effort and commitment to continuously improve and evolve the skills of our employees. Employees' reviews include progress on training.
Targets and key projects are broadcasted to the company. Employees have the latitude to be proactive and the bandwidth to tackle these types of challenges.
Feedback is collected from all employees. The feedback can be provided anonymously. There are actions taken when feedback is provided and topics are addressed punctually.
Any employee can easily go on vacation for two weeks without any operational risks.
We try to utilize best practices at all times. When using a new technology, we inform ourselves on how to best leverage it. When there are questions about best practices a person or department is clearly responsible to research and provide feedback to the team.
When a process is in place there are punctual check gates and a person or department responsible to check that processes implemented are respected.
It is rare that we pay our suppliers late or that we forget to invoice our customers. There is never a surprise with our line of credit.
Everyone in our organization, in any department, can easily trace the history of interactions we have had with a client. We never contact a customer twice by mistake for the same topic and/or the same promotional offer.
Whether by email, instant messaging, phone, social media or person, we are able to access and reuse content to build our expertise and make it accessible to new employees.
We close one accounting period before the end of the next period and there is no delay in producing the reports required for our financial partners.
We will be able to process a higher volume of transactions without the need of manual operations or intervention from a person.
On the road, at a restaurant or in another country, at all times you have access to critical information allowing you to make important decisions.
There is no situation that we need to use Excel spreadsheets or manual interventions to obtain the information necessary for operations and team meetings.
There is never an error when filling a customer order, the inventory balances at all times, there is never any question as to the future capacity of people and equipment, and supplies are ordered on-time from our suppliers.
We do not need to wait until the end of a project or accounting period to find out if an activity is profitable.
It is very easy to do a return on investment analysis for all the amounts invested in marketing campaigns no matter if it is tradeshows, golf tournaments or sending gifts to customers.
No matter the schedule, attendance, overtime or vacation of employees, processing payroll is smooth, error-free and completed in less than one working day.
The tools that we have in place can process a higher volume of transactions and can support the growing customer base, ensuring a consistent customer journey.
Technology is seen as a medium to long-term investment in our operations and not as a short-term expense.
Stakeholders are informed of the progress of the company though annual targets. There is a clear plan with metrics to support it. These metrics are broken down into KPIs.
You are continuously seeing what more can be offered to the market including a new product or service. Based on feedback or demand a new offer was created and successfully deployed.
Get the PDF copy of your results that outline opportunities around your business's people, processes, or technology. A pyramid unique to these results will illustrate how your business stacks up within the global organizational assessment.
In your diagram, you will see your organization's opportunities concerning your people, processes, or technology. These are the three most important aspects of a business and will help aid your organization's sustained growth. For more information about the planning of your organization's strategy and growth, please visit our strategic advisory services.
Benchmark your organization’s level of digital maturity around marketing, business processes, and culture. Uncover which areas could be improved to better support your business and its stakeholders.
Time to complete: 2-5 minutes (approx)
These platforms include both web platforms and mobile apps.
Digital marketing tools include social media platforms, mass marketing emailing, search engine optimization and online ads.
For example, if you have an inventory system, it is connected with the accounting system.
Get the PDF copy of your results that benchmark your organization's digital maturity level in marketing, business processes, and culture to better support your business and its stakeholders.
The results provide a benchmark of your organization's digital maturity around marketing, business processes, and culture. This pyramid illustrates which areas could be improved to better support your business and its stakeholders. For more information about how to maximize the business value of your company based on your unique opportunities, threats, and vision, please visit our innovation studio services.
Not sure what you are really looking for? There’s no need to do it alone. Big Bang is excited to offer a free assessment to uncover what you are looking for, what you should be shopping for, and what you actually need.
Time to complete: 2-5 minutes
The way you manage your finances today, will work exactly the same for the next two to three years and you are comfortable with the level of information gained and time required.
You are easily able to report and forecast your gross margin/profit and you can track receivables and payables in real-time.
Your finances, receivables and expenses are monitored together in one system.
Your stock is available when you need it and the cost of your stock is consistent and competitive. You do not have unplanned shortages of materials and you do not overpay for lengthy storage times.
You have great visibility of the stock movements and from your forecasted demand the planning of the inventory accurate
You are able to plan your orders and fabrication in real time without manual assistance or external tools including Microsoft Excel.
There is no challenges tracking inventory movements and inventory shrinkage is under control
You have access to accurate inventory levels and are not surprised by missing items
You purchase/manage your inventory based on forecasted demand rather than gut feeling and your warehouse setup is efficient maximizing space, with popular items accessed easily
For the service provided by your organization, you are able to properly forecast, invoice and collect easily.
You are confident about knowing the accurate gross margin for your top 5 customers. Meaning you also know who your top customers are.
You are able to automatically generate invoices for all of your projects due for invoicing without manual assistance or external tools including Microsoft Excel.
You confidently know how much effort (including touchpoints) is required to close a lead and you can instantly report your team's closing ratio.
You can clearly identify which stage of the customer journey a company or person is in. Additionally no prospect or client is sent the wrong promotion or information by both the sales and marketing teams. Communications are consistent from all parties within your organization.
The finance department knows with close certainty the amount of sales the company has in the next month.
Your employee files are managed through a system and you can easily manage and calculate vacation days/time off, training and performance.
You are able to provide the right level of access to employee information to departments and leaders within your organization. When it comes time to review the performance of an employee, the information is stored in the same place as the employee's other information including career progression, coaching logs, legal documents and any warnings.
Employee vacation days are easily tracked, and reflect the reality of days taken and the bank available per employee based on their contract.
When a new lead is created you can easily tell the source and the cost to acquire the lead.
You are able to calculate the performance of different marketing campaigns in one system, including the efficiency of: emails, social media, online ads, events, traditional media…
You can track and calculate the ROI on any campaign and both the finance and marketing teams agree.
You are never slowed down in day to day processes due to missing information and communication is easy to manage.
The majority of your time is spent creating value for your organization. You are NOT bogged down by countless emails, repetitive meetings, and an overload of instant messages.
Information is centralized and easy to access - rather than coming in pieces from too many sources.
Get the PDF copy of your results that outlines which areas serve your organization well, which need attention or need consideration for future growth. A pyramid unique to these results will visually map where your business currently stands with information systems and technology.
The Quick Enterprise Architecture Assessment uncovers what software area needs to be invested or optimized next in your organization's business systems. Big Bang leverages GAB'S Pyramid™ to map all information systems and technology. Areas that are:
GAB’S Pyramid™ is a framework to map the systems and software environment for a modern company. It comprehensively reviews and presents how Information Systems should be implemented and work together in a company, no matter the size. The Pyramid serves as a visual reference for all systems working together and each one’s role within the organization.