Language Solutions Global Communications Readiness Audit
- 1. Global Readiness Audit www.langsolinc.com September 30, 2009
- 2. "It's time we provide organizations with more than papers on Best Practices or research on technology solutions to truly help them."
- 3. A free Self-Assessment tool for organizations “ LSI dedicated an enormous amount of time with a passion toward the education of organizations …and the data behind it all is astounding”
- 4. Areas of Readiness in Assessment Operational Management Middle Management Upper Management
- 5. Questions for the user or groups in the organization to answer Questions are segmented per area of assessment
- 6. Weighted Goals Questions in each area of assessment are tied to a specific goal in Balanced Scorecard format. Each goal (leading indicator) is weighted
- 7. SWOT Questions Each SWOT based question based on best practices and research in the industry
- 8. Scoring Organization inputs their score based on the 1 – 5 scale
- 9. Scorecard Input of scores automatically calculates your scorecard Objectives are represented for each Readiness Category
- 10. Global Communication Maturity Model Placement of your organization on the Global Communication Maturity Model (GCMM)
- 11. “ Language Solutions Inc. has documented a methodology that has identified each company's leading indicators - those upstream indicators that will predict and forecast what will happen with companies using multilingual communications” Greg Tucker, Certified Senior Missouri Quality Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Award
- 12. SWOT analysis report Objectives are defined Objectives are color coded to correspond with Balanced Scorecard perspectives Report delivers SWOT analysis with defined problem statements Action Items provide immediate steps to achieve the objective Measures established for each objective
- 13. Global Communication Readiness Audit The Self-Assessment tool is for organizations at any stage of maturity that want to better understand and gain process efficiency with the management of their Global Communications.
- 14. Why do a Global Communications Audit? See if you can answer the following questions about your Global Communication initiatives: Are you listening to your global audience and addressing their concerns? Do you have control over your global brand identity and messaging while maintaining flexibility to adapt for local needs? Do you develop global communications using the best possible vehicles and styles to reach, inform and inspire your global audience, taking into account your budget and resources? Do you know if you are investing your communication dollars wisely , and whether you can achieve better returns if you make changes, and how? Are your processes for delivering content for global communications repeatable and outcomes for quality, time and cost, predictable ? How do you measure the contribution that global communication has to the overall success of the organization? If you cannot answer these questions, you will benefit from our Global Communication Readiness Audit.
- 15. Next steps… Apply for the Global Communication Readiness Self-Assessment at www.langsolinc.com