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Analyze Your Business

Your company is your lifeblood to you and your employees. In today’s economy it is extremely important to know where you stand in terms of strengths and weaknesses. Making sure that you remain strong in critical areas and improve upon your weaknesses can mean the difference between economical viability or closing the doors.

Free Business Analysis

Analyze Your Business™ is a free business analysis tool that helps you determine the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. This is a great tool to get a quick analysis of your business systems to determine your organizational effectiveness. This is amazingly accurate for both small businesses and divisions of much larger organizations.

This is a self-assessment survey that involves answering 100 questions about your organization. The questions are centered on 10 major business systems: Business Planning, Financial, Management & Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Quality Systems, Engineering, People Systems, Operations & Manufacturing, and Measurement and feedback. Just answering the questions will give you great insight into your business. This business analysis can be completed in about 15-20 minutes.

This is an excellent way to start an improvement program for your organization or as a starting point when working with a consultant. This is a quick way to target the strengths and weaknesses within an organization when doing a SWOT analysis (strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats). You will end up with profile of your business strengths and weaknesses. Remember to build on your strengths and fix your weaknesses.

The results are immediately available with no waiting.

Analyze Your Business™ is a Doug Williams & Associates business assessment tool provided to The Lakeshore Business and Industrial Service Center, The Lakeshore Business Institute, of Muskegon Community College.

If you should decide that you want to improve your company’s strengths, improve the organizational effectiveness and target the weaknesses, then please call us 231-777-0217 or email tom.obrien@muskegoncc.edu .  We will respond to you within 24 hours during the work week, Monday-Friday.