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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.
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:
INTENT: Formulate the stakeholder problem. Define the problem, needs and objectives.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. How would you define the culture at your organization, how susceptible is it to Decision-support changes?
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2. Has anyone else (internal or external to the group) attempted to solve this problem or a similar one before? If so, what knowledge can be leveraged from these previous efforts?
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3. Is the team equipped with available and reliable resources?
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4. Is Decision-support currently on schedule according to the plan?
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5. How are consistent Decision-support definitions important?
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6. Has a Decision-support requirement not been met?
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7. How do you think the partners involved in Decision-support would have defined success?
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8. What is in the scope and what is not in scope?
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9. What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Decision-support brings?
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10. Have all of the relationships been defined properly?
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11. What are the Roles and Responsibilities for each team member and its leadership? Where is this documented?
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12. Is there any additional Decision-support definition of success?
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13. What sort