This tool scores the monitoring your organization has in place across five areas. Nothing is sent anywhere and no answers are stored; the page calculates in your browser.
Allow half an hour or more the first time. Two or three answers may need a colleague who knows; ask them rather than guess, because the questions multiply and one guessed answer can decide the whole result.
What are you scoring? Name the organization, or the unit within it, and its essential process before you start. A score for "the company" in general cannot be compared with anything, including your own score next year.
3 = available and functional | 2 = available but not fully functional | 1 = not available.
For (C), score each role in use; a role that exists but is not engaged scores 1. The page does the rest: the three answers multiply into a score out of 27 for each criterion, and the criteria are averaged into your overall score. What the result means is explained below it.
5 monitoring roles are counted. If your organization does not have some of them, switch them off here.
Bands read on the total out of 27: below 8 (under 29.6%) = Reactive; 8 to under 18 (29.6% to under 66.7%) = Partially ready; 18 and above (66.7% and above) = Monitoring in place. The anchors are exact: 8 is “2 on all three questions”, 18 is “3, 3 and 2”, the first combination with no weak link. Because the questions multiply, one weak link pulls the whole score down. An organization scoring 2 everywhere reaches 8 of 27: under a third, not two-thirds. That is the arithmetic of a chain rather than a list, and it is deliberate.
Reading the areas separately
The five area scores tell you more than the total, and inside each criterion the three answers tell you why. A high (A) with a low (B) means the organization watches, and what it learns stays where it was learned. A high (A) and (B) with a low (C) means the mechanisms exist but too few people take part in them, so they fade when the people running them move on.
Reading it as a team
Have each member of the team score the organization independently, then place the answers side by side. Agree the unit, the parent organization and the essential process before anyone starts, have everyone enter them in the same words, and have everyone score on the same date: answers about different units, or taken weeks apart, cannot be compared, and the spread is the finding you would lose. The average shows how ready the organization is; the spread shows how much its members agree about it. A wide spread on (C) is a finding in itself: people disagree about who takes part in the watching, which usually means nobody was ever told.
What follows
A companion tool asks a related question: whether what the organization sees reaches the people who decide, in time. This tool scores how far monitoring is built into the organization and who takes part in it; the companion scores the quality of one signal chain. The pattern worth looking for across the pair is a high score here with a low score there: the machinery is built, and all of it is watching the wrong things. Both tools use the same range, 1 to 27, and the same thresholds, so the two can be read side by side.
One difference in scope is worth knowing. This tool needs at least two levels of management: a unit’s manager and that manager’s own manager. An organization of only front-line staff and a single manager is below its scope; the companion tool works at any size.
What this does not do
The score indicates only whether anyone is watching what keeps the organization able to adapt, whether what is learned travels, and who takes part. It does not judge whether the structure itself is good, and it does not repair what it finds. Identifying the gaps is its whole function; closing them is the work of leadership.
What does your score actually mean for your organization?
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Your answers in the tool above are not sent anywhere unless you add them here yourself. The scoring happens entirely in your browser. This form is separate: it sends only what is in its boxes, to Nagib Choueiri, and is used for nothing else. The button above puts your result into the message, where you can read and change it before you send.