Organisational Diagnostic Tool - Ambit

Introducing a new way to assess, benchmark, challenge, maintain and improve performance in your organisation

Ambit is an organisational diagnostic tool designed to help you appraise how your organisation is performing in relation to essential aspects of organisational life.

It’s easy to use and offers clear insights – providing you with a baseline for developing your improvement strategy and reassurance on where you are doing well.

“We found Ambit easy to implement within the organisation. Because it’s user friendly, our response rates were excellent. The final report was clear and easy to understand, with exceptional support from the Ambit team throughout the process.”

Darryn Allcorn, Director for Workforce and Development, Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

Why choose Ambit?

Convenient: Ambit offers a clear and simple diagnostic process via a quick, easy to use online survey.

Effective: It gives you access to guidance and support from our team of knowledgeable, experienced research and business development experts – from the interpretation of report findings to innovative suggestions for actions that could lead to improvement.

Flexible: Ambit offers three levels of analysis and reporting, depending on your needs and resources, so you can choose the level of analysis that is right for your organisation.

Choose Level 1

Driven by an online survey that gives you a snapshot of your organisation – where you are doing well and where you may need to improve performance. Level 1 is free to Skills for Justice members, and 1 includes:

• Initial headline report and analysis consisting of the consolidated and collective responses of all participants.
• Delivered within 10 days of the survey closing.
• Follow-up call with the Ambit team.

“Getting to know your organisation is crucial to identify areas in which you are doing really well and those that could be improved and developed. All organisations are made up of people who are having different experiences from different perspectives and gathering this data is very useful in helping you develop strategy, set objectives and manage your organisation’s performance. As with all mechanisms for feedback there is no on complete and definitive ‘right’ answer however, with the data that Ambit offers you, you will have a broader and richer awareness of your organisation and a number of opportunities for further inquiry, development and improvement."

Toby Lindsay, Leadership, Management and OD Specialist, Skills for Justice

Choose Level 2

A deeper analysis of the data gathered through your Level 1 report, that can be broken down in variables of interest. This includes:

• In-depth focused review including demographic breakdowns, cross-tabulation of results, industry / sector comparisons, data visualisations, advanced statistical analysis, final report with high-level recommendations.
• Follow-up call with the Ambit team.

Choose Level 3

Enhanced analysis which may incorporate further quantitative analysis and/or qualitative data focused to your specific needs and based on the level of interrogation and analysis you require, for example:

• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Further detailed survey work
• Evaluation

Ambit in practice

1. You’ll be asked to rate a series of statements relating to your organisation. The questionnaire takes 30–40 minutes to complete.
2. You’ll get an idea of how your organisation is performing against the following core areas of organisational life.
   1. Workplace culture
   2. Vision and strategy
   3. Planning
   4. Efficiency
   5. Organisational delivery
   6. Continuous improvement
   7. Customer focus
   8. Networking
   9. People development
   10. People management
3. You’ll receive an Ambit report that will help you identify areas of strength and areas of potential improvement depending on the Level you have chosen. One of the Ambit team will then be in touch to discuss next steps for your organisation.

“Ambit findings were invaluable in reinforcing areas for development. They helped us to clearly identify how teams were feeling and how they were supported. We also found it useful to integrate Ambit insights with our own data, such as staff surveys and engagement scores.”

Darryn Allcorn, Director for Workforce and Development, Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

Find out More:

Download further details on Ambit here.