Capability Assessments and Context

“Assessment Context” is fundamental.

  • What are your needs?
  • What do you want explored?
  • What data should be reviewed in that exploration?

We encourage you to select which capability domains you want the assessment to focus on (all, or some, or one).


Universal Framework

Options are listed in the “requirements section” of the Fiverr sign up

  1. Strategy & Direction: % of strategic objectives with owners, measures, & proven impact on decisions
  2. Decision quality: % of decisions made once that stick without reversal or major rework
  3. Risk & Resilience: % of critical risks with treatments that reduce exposure to target level
  4. Execution & Control: % of material initiatives delivered on time and within budget
  5. People Leadership: voluntary turnover rate in critical roles within target limits
  6. Learning & Improvement: reduction in repeat incidents or failures over time
  7. Governance & accountability: % of material issues closed on time

ALL, SOME, or ONE


Consolidated Framework

Options are listed in the “requirements section” of the Fiverr sign up

Two mandatory domains:

1. Understands context, stakeholders, and disruption, and uses this to set scope and strategy.

2. Leaders set direction and appetite; governance ensures oversight and accountability.

Nine options:

3. Risks, opportunities, and continuity needs are systematically identified, analysed, and updated.

4. Integrated management framework is tailored to context and embedded in operations.

5. Risk‑based objectives, plans, and continuity strategies guide and control material change.

6. People have the competence, information, and culture to deliver Q/E/R/BCM duties.

7. Customer, market, stakeholder, and supply‑chain needs and risks are actively managed.

8. Operations and critical activities are controlled via processes, BCM plans, and emergency response.

9. Information and digital tools for Q/E/R/BCM are controlled, reliable, and used for decisions.

10. Q/E/R/BCM performance and exposure are monitored, tested, and reviewed for assurance.

11. The organisation learns from experience and systematically improves and innovates resilience.

ALL, SOME, or ONE


NB1: Documentation requirements vary by context and are advised in package descriptions.

NB2: Where confidentiality precludes these options – see flow diagram below which is tailored to Operational Resilience package – we oversee self-assessment in step 2.


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Author: John Salter & Associates Consulting Services

John Salter - specialising in the facilitation of risk-based capability reviews; needs-based training; business continuity planning; crisis management exercises; and organisational debriefing. Recognised for “preventing disasters, or where that is not possible, reducing the potential for harm” Ref: Barrister H Selby, Inquest Handbook, 1998. Distracted by golf, camping, fishing, reading, red wine, movies and theatre.

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