Adaptive Capacity Index (ACI)

Our proprietary diagnostic tool pinpoints what's holding your organisation back  — and how to close the gap
Ready for a reality check?
  • Doing business is complex
  • The real world is in constant flux
  • adaptability determines viability
  • There is no 'silver bullet'
  • No simple solution
  • No single focus
  • You must attend to the whole system!
We built the Adaptive Capacity Index to do precisely that.

Adaptive organisations achieve superior outcomes in:​

  • Performance

  • Resilience

  • Competitiveness

  • Risk Management

  • Decision Making

  • Strategic Renewal

  • Foresight

  • Strategic Alignment

  • Innovation & Agility

  • Long-Term Growth

What most businesses miss when trying to transform

Organisations often focus heavily on restructures and technology-based systems changes to drive results, overlooking the importance of mindset, behaviour, and culture.
 
The Adaptive Capacity Index (ACI) balances all four dimensions (Mindset, Behaviour, Culture & System) to prevent common pitfalls, such as power and politics, eroded trust, and disengagement.  
 
By integrating these dimensions, the ACI allows executives to build resilient, high-performing teams, equipped to navigate complex challenges. 
 
It helps executive leaders address their strategic strengths and weaknesses to deliver organisational resilience, effectiveness, sustainable performance, and business transformation. 
The fastest way to see the deeper dynamics driving your organisation's adaptive capacity.
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Combining decades of research with C4AT’s real-world expertise in enterprise transformations, the ACI rapidly assesses the capabilities and hidden dynamics that determine executive team functioning and firm performance.

The ACI is the only assessment that provides a comprehensive view across the 12 subdimensions critical to developing adaptive capacity.

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What is the ACI?

The ACI is diagnostic of an organisation’s adaptive capacity, effectiveness, and capability for business transformation. 

It is a systemic approach to assess if the organisation is fit for purpose now, and able to respond to new challenges as they arise.

It provides a solid platform for executive collective sense-making, perspective coordination, and strategic alignment.

It enables the executive have the right conversations that may have been overlooked or avoided, close gaps, and make better decisions.  

How does it work?

C4AT’s approach is grounded in theory, research, and our own considerable experience in guiding and observing multiple successful large-scale, longitudinal, organisational and leadership team programs of work. 

First, the executive team completes an on-line survey targeting twelve dimensions of organisational effectiveness. 

The resulting report synthesizes their quantitative and qualitative responses and integrates the team’s different perspectives on their own organisational effectiveness. 

A three phase process delivers on-going value

1. Reveal

Online survey collects views about organisational capability.

2. Align

A series of sense-making sessions coordinates perspectives

3. Transform

Strategic decisions about development actions.

Discover your organisation's Adaptive Capacity

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