How adaptive is your organisation?
Self-assessment
An adaptive organisation anticipates change, advances decisively and assesses empirically, continuously, at every level. It thrives in complexity, engaging with unknown unknowns. It organises around outcomes, learns faster than its environment evolves and holds the tension between today's operations and tomorrow's opportunities. Adaptivity emerges from structures that enable fast change, and from the healthy relationships between people, teams and the systems that connect them.
Ten questions, each on a scale from 1 to 10. At the end you get a spider diagram of your profile to download.
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Question 1 of 10: How would you rate your organisation's ability to anticipate change?
What does this mean?
Anticipating change means noticing shifts in customers, markets, technology, and the wider environment early enough to respond effectively.
Question 2 of 10: How would you rate your organisation's ability to advance decisively?
What does this mean?
Advancing decisively means turning what you learn into timely action. Decisions sit close to the relevant context, with clear responsibility and enough autonomy to act.
Question 3 of 10: How would you rate your organisation's ability to assess empirically?
What does this mean?
Empirical assessment uses real feedback and observable evidence rather than opinions or fixed assumptions. Results become input for the next decision.
Question 4 of 10: How would you rate your organisation's ability to anticipate change, advance decisively and assess empirically, continuously and at every level?
What does this mean?
Adaptivity is an ongoing practice across the organisation, not a one-off initiative. Teams repeatedly anticipate, act, assess, and adjust at every level.
Question 5 of 10: How well does your organisation thrive in complexity, engaging with unknown unknowns?
What does this mean?
In complexity, not every cause, effect, or future event can be known in advance. Thriving means retaining enough variety, feedback, and room to adapt as new information appears.
Question 6 of 10: How well does your organisation organise around outcomes?
What does this mean?
Organising around outcomes means forming teams around customer value and real problems, rather than optimising separate functions or activity alone.
Question 7 of 10: How well does your organisation learn faster than its environment evolves?
What does this mean?
Fast learning comes from short cycles: release, gather real feedback, improve, and repeat. The aim is to learn and adjust before the environment moves on.
Question 8 of 10: How well does your organisation hold the tension between today's operations and tomorrow's opportunities?
What does this mean?
This is organisational ambidexterity: maintaining reliable operations and profit today while creating space to explore, experiment, and innovate for tomorrow.
Question 9 of 10: To which degree does your organisation exhibit structures that enable fast change?
What does this mean?
Enabling structures place decisions close to knowledge, connect authority with responsibility, and favour speed, reversible choices, and learning through feedback.
Question 10 of 10: How healthy are relationships between people, teams, and the systems that connect them?
What does this mean?
Healthy relationships support open communication, feedback, empowerment, and cooperation across teams. The connecting systems should strengthen shared understanding rather than reinforce silos.
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- anticipates change
- 5
- advances decisively
- 5
- assesses empirically
- 5
- anticipates, advances and assesses continuously, at every level
- 5
- engaging with unknown unknowns
- 5
- organises around outcomes
- 5
- learns faster than its environment
- 5
- today's operations & tomorrow's opportunities
- 5
- structures enable fast change
- 5
- healthy relationships & systems
- 5
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