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CALCULATE THE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ) OF YOUR BUSINESS
This test will help you calculate your business’s IQ level. It will also help you create the best plan and map the direction you need to take your company to increase the ability your organization has to process and turn information into knowledge and knowledge into profit. .
For each of the following questions choose an answer that best describes the way your organization uses information. Focus on a current situation in the organization, not the circumstances you would like to see in the future.
1. In my organization the following categories of people have access to information (about sales, buyers, financial parameters, human resources, production and similar):
IT/ IS staff (programmers, R&D experts, etc.),
Powerful individuals and people they approve/ support,
Everyone in the organization,
I don’t know / none of the above.
2. Individuals in my organization feel they:
Have the right to make decisions, but do not have enough information to make them,
Can collect basic information about the organization to make the decisions they need to make,
Have all the information needed to make decisions,
3. Users in our organization use corporative information (such as sales figures, information on buyers, stock, production, financial reports and similar):
Only for limited purpose,
To only look at/ track information on what’s already been achieved,
To predict the future and strategically manage the organization,
4. Company information is used to:
Prepare business reports,
Manage in special/ crisis situation,
Reshape business process performance,
5. According to my estimate, the information individuals within company need is currently available:
0-33 percent of the time,
34-66 percent of the time,
67-100 percent of the time,
6. The quality of available information in our information system is:
Bad,
Adequate,
Excellent,
7. Does our company use key success indicators (sales, stock, financial, production or similar) to manage our business?
Not at all,
Sometimes.
Often.
8. Success indicators we use / fallow are:
Only the ones that use financial data,
Only the ones that use financial data and customer relations,
All indicators regarding financial data, customers, business processes, and business advancement,
9. Our information system:
Shows/ uses information gathered solely and exclusively within out organization,
Shows/ uses internal information expended using gathered and processed market information,
Shows/ uses expended internal information for all partners and suppliers,
10. Does your company automatically informs when any changes in the parameters are made:
No, that kind of system is not implemented,
Yes, and it’s done in regular intervals (weekly, monthly, etc. ),
It is done instantaneously – at the time the information is created a message is sent,
11. I can see the information:
Only in statistical reports (printed and electronic),
By choosing the parameters wanted from the statistical reports (in corresponding menu),
Instantaneous and individual access to information which I can search and use to compile reports and analyze,
12. An access to business information is provided:
Only in the office,
In the office, on the internet, at my computer, any place in the world and over the mobile phone.