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Comparison with Traditional Assessment Methods

The following comparison tables will quickly show you how Virtual CEO Assessments will transform the way you evaluate and improve your organization's performance:

Assess: Identify needs

Traditional Approach	With Virtual CEO Assessments
Time consuming data gathering that can take weeks or even months.	Leverage time and personnel.
Lost productivity and expensive use of senior management time.	Capture enterprise wide performance data in hours or days.
Intrusive interviews that interrupt your business day.	Convenient, anonymous online 24/7 assessment system.
Fragmented, functionally biased perspectives.	Promotes cross functional perspectives.
No direct tie to best practices.	Tied to proven metrics.
Limited input from workforce.	Capture input from entire organization and from customers and clients.
Reports and outputs take forever to receive.	Receive comprehensive reports immediately.
Reports are often text laden and difficult to interpret.	Reports are clear and action based.
Cost of Time: weeks or months.	Cost of Time: hours or days.

Respond: Plan Actions

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Traditional Approach	With Virtual CEO Assessments
Walls covered with flip charts and masking tape.	Interactive action planning software.
Difficult to capture items and nuance from planning sessions resulting in lost data.	All data captured and warehoused electronically.
Time consuming to manually list priorities, objectives, ownership, milestones and measurement tied to ROI.	Mastering Strategy action planning software conveniently captures all relevant execution data.
Time and momentum lost due to the time it takes to type the plan and then receive it back.	Print and distribute the plan immediately.

Relate: Develop Solutions

Everyone on the team is heard. Problems reflect consensus thinking. Solutions are more focused and targeted.
Traditional Approach	With Virtual CEO Assessments
Silo barriers.	Removes barriers.
Difficult to navigate through functional bias and bottlenecks.	Immediately illustrates alignment or misalignment at the senior level and within the organization.
Meetings often get off point or focus on immediate or individual issues.	Keeps you focused on the big picture.
Intangible business knowledge rarely captured or retrievable for benchmarking purposes.	All business knowledge is captured. Can be used for benchmarking progress over time.
Difficult to move from concept to action.	Facilitates a focused dialogue to trigger action planning.

Execution: Support Implementation

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Traditional Approach	With Virtual CEO Assessments
Tactical deployment may be buried by day-to-day demands or distractions.	Action planning software provides project owners with real time reminders tied to key milestones.
Takeaways from planning sessions often lost.	All execution data stored.
No discipline or structured approach to implementing plan.	Uniform approach to action plan implementation.
Groups or divisions often use different formats to track and report progress against objectives.	Standardized system that supports a common approach and a common business language.