Adaptive Capacity Index (ACI)
Reveal your capabilities
Align your perspectives
Transform your organisation
Doing business is complex
There is no ‘silver bullet’
No simple solution
No single focus
...which will solve your problems or deliver your opportunity.
You must attend to the whole system!
We built the ACI to help you do that.
What is the ACI?
- The ACI is diagnostic of an organisation’s adaptive capacity, organisation effectiveness, and capability for business transformation.
- The ACI is a systemic approach to assess if the organisation is fit for purpose now, and able to respond to new challenges as they arise.
The ACI is a solid platform for executive collective sense-making, perspective coordination, and strategic alignment.
- The ACI helps 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.
- 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.
How does it help your business?
Adaptive organisations achieve superior outcomes in the following areas:
Performance
Resilience
Competitiveness
Risk Management
Decision Making
Strategic Renewal
Foresight
Strategic Alignment
Innovation & Agility
Long-Term Growth
- The ACI is a practical diagnostic that reveals which core capabilities need development and action to improve organisational performance. The ACI is comprehensive across its twelve strategic capabilities pinpointing where attention is needed.
Organisations often focus heavily on restructures and technology-based systems changes to drive results, overlooking the importance of Mindset, Behaviour, and Culture.
The ACI balances these dimensions 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 resilience, sustainable performance, organisational effectiveness, and business transformation.