A new assessment tool for your business. Competitive Agility Partnership is launching its diagnostic tool for organisations to consider their own performance, regardless of market or sector. This on-line tool enables the organisation to assess itself both externally and internally.

By looking at how well they gather and use information to formulate their strategy, evaluate their market and understand, develop and utilise their own capabilities they can see their strengths and weaknesses in terms of competitive position.

Each of these three dimensions is also assessed in terms of the knowledge they gather, analyse and then share throughout the organisation.

This gives an insight into the 'Competitive Agility' of the organisation.

Whether you need to improve business performance or implement a change programme more effectively, Competitive Agility can be the way forward for you.

Using the tool across an organisation gives valuable data about how different levels or locations may perceive performance and provides management with feedback to improve their competitiveness.

The simple reports combine both visual and written feedback which makes it easy to identify what areas to work on.

The more detailed levels of the reports enable the management to focus their actions on the specific, critical aspects which need improvement.

Regardless of size or sector, an organisation needs to be competitive if it is to achieve its objectives.

Improving business performance is a key challenge for many managers and the Competitive Agility tool is intended to help you do this.

Combining people's perceptions about how the organisation is looking externally with what it is doing internally provides a powerful toolkit for the top management to work with.

Many organisational models around improving performance such as kaizen, lean processes, agile manufacturing etc are very good at delivering results.

However, most of them work with a narrower focus than Competitive Agility.

Here, the principle is to be able to address issues affecting the strategic direction of the organisation related to the market through to internal communication procedures.

In the 21st century, the changing shape of markets, customers and suppliers means that there is an ever-increasing need for organisations to be agile and responsive to events.