Knowing Where to Start...

A valid diagnosis must deliver information (be descriptive and predictive) and provide the basis for a development plan (be prescriptive).

The four components of the Faust Management "Diagnostic Suite" will profile your organization with whatever level of information you need to be able to start driving your company toward PRIME.

1. Organizational Life Cycle Analysis

The Life Cycle Insight™ is abasic analysis designed to assess an organization's life cycle position, some of the characteristics that define the organization given that life cycle position, and specific challenges it faces in proceeding to its prime phase.

Descriptive & Predictive Benefits

The Life Cycle Insight™ produces an adequate amount of data to determine the organization's life cycle position and reports on three key life cycle warning factors.

Prescriptive Benefits

The Life Cycle Insight™ is not designed to identify the specific developmental agenda items of a development plan. This assessment does, however, aid in identifying the life cycle position...it specifies the characteristics of your organization and illustrates the challenges the organization faces in proceeding toward Prime, allowing the you to develop your own action plan.

2. CEO Perspective Assessment

This assessment utilizes the Executive Insight Business Analysis Kit which is an individual assessment tool that has been designed specifically for use by the leader of an organization. The Business Analysis Kit guides the individual through a process to better understand the key challenges facing the organization from the leader's perspective and to identify the opportunities.

Descriptive & Predictive Benefits

The data generated using the Business Analysis Kit is limited in that it only looks at the organization from one perspective -- that of the leader. However, this also allows the leader to focus on those crucial areas that the leader needs to address.

Prescriptive Benefits

Because of the limited data, the Action Plans developed as part of this process are focused more directly toward the leader and often are more personal in nature. To create broader, organization-wide change, more complete problem analysis and action planning development are usually required.

3. Executive Team Based Diagnostic

Utilizing FMC's Executive Insight® guided process of discovery, decisions and action planning, this facilitated process will help you to get control of your organization and drive it to Prime and a stronger future. It is used with your management team and not only helps the team to get a solid grasp of the key challenges facing the organization but also creates working consciousness as to the top priority problems/opportunities to be addressed.

Additional side benefits include increasing the effectiveness of the team's ability to have productive problem solving discussions, and a consistent way in which to assess what challenges should and should not be directly attacked.

Descriptive & Predictive Benefits

The Executive Insight team process will explore all aspects of the organization to identify the possible areas of improvement which exist (including external and end result factors), and then provide a logic that will lead the team to the core challenges uncovering the greatest opportunities for improvement.

Prescriptive Benefits

This process provides not only specific output necessary to create a development plan but also is an integral part of the process in the establishment of critical action agenda items that are necessary to effect positive change for your organization.

4. Comprehensive Organizational Based Diagnostic

This is our most in-depth and comprehensive diagnostic process which consists of utilizing FMC's Organizational Diagnostic Questionnaire tool, feedback and action planning sessions. The ODQ is a computer-scored instrument for collecting information on critical organizational variables and provides a broad-based assessment of the organization based on both the corporate Life Cycle and Executive Insight models.

Descriptive & Predictive Benefits

This process identifies not only the key challenges and then a process to identify the top priority issues, but also provides the Life Cycle position and Life Cycle Warning Factors assessment, 11 unique Future Success Predictors and strengths analysis. Additionally this process allows for the integration of interview data and free response input.

Prescriptive Benefits

This process provides not only specific output necessary to create a development plan but also is an integral part of the process in the establishment of critical action agenda items that are necessary to effect positive change for your organization.

For more information about how this process can help your organization, contact

Faust Management Corporation
13553 Poway Road, Suite 1507
Poway, CA 92064

(858) 674-2400 phone
(858) 485-1925 fax