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CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE

INTENT: Be aware of the need for change. Recognize that there is an unfavorable variation, problem or symptom.

In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:

5 Strongly Agree

4 Agree

3 Neutral

2 Disagree

1 Strongly Disagree

1. What are your needs in relation to Decision-support skills, labor, equipment, and markets?

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2. Are your goals realistic? Do you need to redefine your problem? Perhaps the problem has changed or maybe you have reached your goal and need to set a new one?

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3. Have you identified your Decision-support key performance indicators?

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4. Are there any revenue recognition issues?

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5. Would you recognize a threat from the inside?

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6. Can management personnel recognize the monetary benefit of Decision-support?

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7. How do you assess your Decision-support workforce capability and capacity needs, including skills, competencies, and staffing levels?

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8. Who needs budgets?

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9. What training and capacity building actions are needed to implement proposed reforms?

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10. Think about the people you identified for your Decision-support project and the project responsibilities you would assign to them, what kind of training do you think they would need to perform these responsibilities effectively?

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11. What are the clients issues and concerns?

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12. Who needs what information?

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13. What else needs to be measured?

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14. What activities does the governance board need to consider?

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15. How are the Decision-support’s objectives aligned to the group’s overall stakeholder strategy?

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16. Who needs to know?

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17. What are the expected benefits of Decision-support to the stakeholder?

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18. Is it needed?

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19. Why is this needed?

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20. What information do users need?

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21. When a Decision-support manager recognizes a problem, what options are available?

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22. Which issues are too important to ignore?

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23. What needs to stay?

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24. Are there regulatory / compliance issues?

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25. Will it solve real problems?

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26. Does Decision-support create potential expectations in other areas that need to be recognized and considered?

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27. How do you identify the kinds of information that you will need?

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28. What vendors make products that address the Decision-support needs?

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29. Do you need different information or graphics?

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30. Are controls defined to recognize and contain problems?

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31. What is the extent or complexity of the Decision-support problem?

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32. What are the stakeholder objectives to be achieved with Decision-support?

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33. What prevents you from making the changes you know will make you a more effective Decision-support leader?

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34. What Decision-support coordination do you need?

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35. Are employees recognized for desired behaviors?

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36. What Decision-support problem should be solved?

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37. Are there Decision-support problems defined?

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38. What are the timeframes required to resolve each of the issues/problems?

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39. Do you need to avoid or amend any Decision-support activities?

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40. How many trainings, in total, are needed?

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41. Who defines the rules in relation to any given issue?

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42. What do you need to start doing?

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43. Where is training needed?

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44. Does your organization need more Decision-support education?

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45. Will Decision-support deliverables need to be tested and, if so, by whom?

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46. Which information does the Decision-support business case need to include?

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47. What does Decision-support success mean to the stakeholders?

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48. How do you recognize an Decision-support objection?

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49. To what extent does each concerned units management team recognize Decision-support as an effective investment?

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50. Are losses recognized in a timely manner?

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51. What would happen if Decision-support weren’t done?

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52. Who needs to know about Decision-support?

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53. Why the need?

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54. How much are sponsors, customers, partners, stakeholders involved in Decision-support? In other words, what are the risks, if Decision-support does not deliver successfully?

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55. What is the recognized need?

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56. How can auditing be a preventative security measure?

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57. Will a response program recognize when a crisis occurs and provide some level of response?

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58. Do you know what you need to know about Decision-support?

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59. Are there any specific expectations or concerns about the Decision-support team, Decision-support itself?

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60. What is the Decision-support problem definition? What do you need to resolve?

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61. Does the problem have ethical dimensions?

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62. What is the problem and/or vulnerability?

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63. Consider your own Decision-support project, what types of organizational problems do you think might be causing or affecting your problem, based on the work done so far?

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64. Will new equipment/products be required to facilitate Decision-support delivery, for example is new software needed?

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65. What Decision-support capabilities do you need?

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66. Is the need for organizational change recognized?

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67. What should be considered when identifying available resources, constraints, and deadlines?

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68. Which needs are not included or involved?

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69. As a sponsor, customer or management, how important is it to meet goals, objectives?

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70. Looking at each person individually – does every one have the qualities which are needed to work in this group?

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71. How do you recognize an objection?

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72. What are the minority interests and what amount of minority interests can be recognized?

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73. Who should resolve the Decision-support issues?

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74. For your Decision-support project, identify and describe the business environment, is there more than one layer to the business environment?

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75. Is it clear when you think of the day ahead of you what activities and tasks you need to complete?

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76. Do you recognize Decision-support achievements?

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77. What resources or support might you need?

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78. What tools and technologies are needed for a custom Decision-support project?

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79. What is the smallest subset of the problem you can usefully solve?

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80. How are you going to measure success?

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81. Who else hopes to benefit from it?

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82. What do employees need in the short term?

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83. What situation(s) led to this Decision-support Self Assessment?

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84. Are employees recognized or rewarded for performance that demonstrates the highest levels of integrity?

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85. What needs to be done?

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86. What creative shifts do you need to take?

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87. Is the quality assurance team identified?

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88. Are you dealing with any of the same issues today as yesterday? What can you do about this?

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89. How does it fit into your organizational needs and tasks?

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90. How do you take a forward-looking perspective in identifying Decision-support research related to market response and models?

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91. Do you have/need 24-hour access to key personnel?

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92. Who are your key stakeholders who need to sign off?

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93. To what extent would your organization benefit from being recognized as a award recipient?

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94. What problems are you facing and how do you consider Decision-support will circumvent those obstacles?

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95. What Decision-support events should you attend?

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96. Whom do you really need or want to serve?

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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section

Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score for this section

Transfer your score to the Decision-support Index at the beginning of the Self-Assessment.