Thank you for your interest of the worldwide Company Competitiveness Barometer. The goal of this research is to diagnose companies’ competitiveness in different countries and in different market sectors in.

After answering the questions in the survey you will get an assessment of competitiveness of your company in the background of other companies, which had taken part in the Company Competitiveness Barometer. It will take you only a few minutes and you will get known if your company is competitive.

However, the results of your company assessment you will get on the charts. You also will be able to compare your company to others.

Additionally, you will get a score in points. The most competitive company on the market will get 360 points. The worst company will get 0 points.

The Company Competitiveness Barometer is anonymous and the questions do not contain any trade secrets. All results and a full report of Company Competitiveness Barometer 2014 we will show in the end of on sensorium24.com.

Thank you for taking part in the Company Competitiveness Barometer and for answering to all questions.

	Your company operates in:
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1.	What is, in your opinion, the relation between the level of free cash owned by you to the characteristics of your business?
very low low adequete high very high
2.	How high is the solvency of your company?
very low low average high very high
3.	Does your company gain a profit from the primary (core) business operation?
definitely no no it is difficult to say yes definitely yes
4.	How do you collect knowledge in your company?
complete paper files unrelated paper files complete electronic files unrelated electronic files in employees' heads
5.	To what extend is an employee allowed to implement small improvements at work?
low quite low average quite high high
6.	How often are the constructive conclusions drawn after finishing successful projects or other activities?
never rarely sometimes often always
7.	How do you rate the creativity level of your key employees?
very low low average high very high
8.	To what extent are projects, enterprises and production processes recorded in your company?
none quite few a few quite many all of them
9.	What is the level of work experience of your key employees?
very low low average high very high
10.	How much freedom do employees have in choosing they own way of completing their tasks?
none very little it depends on a task very much at all
11.	How can employees get to know the strategy of your company?
they cannot during meetings with managers reading special documents using internal electronic website attending periodical informative events
12.	What is the level of a moral (economic) consumption of fixed capital in your company?
very low low average high very high
13.	Is there a rapid development of marketing competences in your company?
no yes
14.	Is the care of the company's good image visible and are the public relations activities undertaken?
no yes
15.	Are there any activities focused on using the lean management in your company?
no yes
16.	Are there any activities focused on creating a strong brand of your company (or your goods)?
no yes
17.	Is an offer created for every client individually?
no yes
18.	Does your company try to create a market niche?
no yes
19.	Does your company use modern marketing research methods in order to reach your target groups of clients?
no yes
20.	Does your company look for partners to outsource some of your processes?
no yes
21.	Does your company use the benchmarking method in order to decrease costs of manufacturing products or services?
no yes
22.	Does your company use the scale effect or the experience effect (the bigger number of goods you produce, the cheaper the good is) (the longer you do something, the better you are at it)?
no yes
23.	What is the main goal of your current pricing strategy for all the products and services together?
to survive difficulties to increase profits in a short period to increase profits in a long period to get a maximum market share
24.	How often can your client negotiate a price?
never rarely sometimes often always
25.	To what extent does your distribution system keep the goods' or service's supply timely?
low quite low average qiute high high
26.	How often does a client have a possibility of testing products or services before buying?
never rarely sometimes often always
27.	How many products or services offered by your company have a guarantee (free maintance, service or repair)?
none minority a half majority all
28.	To what extent do your products or services meet the appropriate ecological requirements?
low quit low average quite high high
29.	How often do you plan the life-length of your products or services before you launch them on a market?
never rarely sometimes often always
30.	How many percent of your clients are involved into your loyality programs?
0 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 75-100%
31.	What is the level of a cash flow in your company (is your company able to pay short-term obligations)?
very low low average high very high
32.	What is the level of external debts in your company?
very low low average high very high
33.	What is the level of a market share indicator of your products or services?
very low low average high very high
34.	What is the level of profitability in your company (are incomes higher than costs)?
very low low average high very high
35.	What is the level of sale increase (measured year by year)?
very low low average high very high
36.	What is the level of equity profitability (a relation of profit to investments) in your company?
very low low average high very high
37.	What is the level of danger to your company caused by developing countries (China, India, Brasil)?
none low average high extreeme
38.	What is the attitude of customers in your country towards goods offered by companies in your market sector?
very negative negative neutral positive very positive
39.	To what extend can your company use flexible work contracts?
no possibility low average high no limits
40.	To what extent have you changed your technology during the last 5 years (the technology means ways of manufacturing, providing services or techniques used by people)?
no changes little changes average changes big changes radical changes
41.	To what extent does quality of your goods depend on the quality of resources?
very weakly weakly on average strongly very strongly
42.	How difficult would it be for your company to withdraw from your present market sector?
very difficult difficult average easy very easy
43.	What is the chance that in this year your client will start manufacturing goods which they buy from your company (instead of buing them from yours)?
0 25% 50% 75% 100%
44.	To what extent does the brand influence your clients purchase decisions?
very low low average high very high
45.	How far is the substitute similar to the products or services offered by your company?
no similarity quite similar similar very similar identical
46.	What is the market sector of the operation of your company?
47.	How many years does your company exist?
up to 9 from 10 to 49 from 50 to 249 more then 249
48.	How many employees does your company have?

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