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WAVE evaluates, measures and benchmarks your business capabilities.  Comparing your business with over a thousand others, this tool allows you to identify your strengths and weaknesses in a practical way.

• Make better use of your time and resources
• Motivate and energise your staff
• Track your progress for future planning

WAVE also drives, tracks and sustains innovation – a powerful source of performance and value - helping you shape a progressive culture and boost returns on your activities.

This proven capability building platform has been rated "high" or "very high" by 74% of users from fourteen countries, and focuses on the key areas of management, strategy, opportunity, marketing, operations and administration.

Carried out as one-off assessments for individuals and small groups of managers, or full reviews involving assessment sessions for all management levels, this tool helps you to focus on issues and differences, helping your key people agree and align on priority actions.

WAVE reports results in graphic format, giving you with a ‘Capabilities Profile’, based on comments and data collected during assessment sessions.  You will then be able to compare your profile with the median score based on averages for over 1000 companies in the WAVE database. Alternatively Upper Quartile can supply consultants to carry out a WAVE audit and recommend a future plan. 

With WAVE’s recommendations and action planning guides, you will be able to ascertain how well balanced your performance is across your capabilities, identify the best improvement opportunities, set priorities and plan implementations to launch you into the top level of organisations in your sector. 

Your report will also help you to decide whether you need external advice.  Specifically for this, WAVE offers support though on-site facilitation of assessments, opportunity workshops, action planning and implementation support.

With its high predictive validity, use WAVE with confidence to create and capture more value with less risk.   

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