SENSE |
SE01 |
Our firm is constantly investing in research and development activities to identify new technologies and market opportunities. |
ns |
SE02 |
Our firm is constantly seeking and exploring new technologies and markets both in the business we are currently in and in other businesses or sectors. |
ns |
SE03 |
Our firm monitors the structural evolution of our business/sector. |
0.924 |
SE04 |
Our firm monitors and understands the current and latent (future) demands of the market, suppliers, and competitors. |
0.689 |
SE05 |
Our firm’s owners and management know how to interpret the business environment, what technology they should chase and on which markets they should focus. |
0.535 |
SE06 |
Our firm is constantly seeking information from different sources, such as news, relationships, formal and informal contacts with customers, competitors and suppliers, fairs, universities, etc. |
0.619 |
SE07 |
Our firm explores and monitors the development of new technologies internally. |
ns |
SE08 |
Our firm is constantly investing and makes proactive efforts to ensure that the information collected flows between those people who are able to use it to identify new technological and market opportunities. |
ns |
SE09 |
Our firm adopts planned and organized formal processes for collection, analysis, and use of information on new technologies and markets. |
ns |
SE10 |
Our firm values the constant search for innovations originating outside of the firm. |
ns |
SE11 |
Our firm clearly allocates resources for activities such as searching and analyzing information and discovering new opportunities in technologies and markets. |
0.598 |
SEIZE
|
SZ12 |
Our firm is constantly developing new products, services or processes to take advantage of new technological and market opportunities. |
ns |
SZ13 |
Our firm tends to deal very well with market change and uncertainty. |
ns |
SZ14 |
Our firm takes very good advantage of the opportunities we identify and that we judge to be good for our business. |
ns |
SZ15 |
Our firm has a great capacity to create, adjust and, when necessary, redesign our business plan. |
0.606 |
SZ16 |
Our business plan makes it clear what our value proposal is and how it is articulated. |
0.840 |
SZ17 |
Our business plan estimates costs and potential revenues to meet customers’ needs. |
0.853 |
SZ18 |
Our business plan identifies which technologies are appropriate to our business and how they will be obtained. |
0.802 |
SZ19 |
Our business plan defines the structure of our value chain and where we are positioned within it. |
0.912 |
SZ20 |
Our business plan identifies and segments our target markets. |
0.867 |
SZ21 |
Our business plan makes it clear how we do business in our market. |
0.895 |
SZ22 |
Our firm always analyzes multiple alternatives before taking decisions. |
0.606 |
SZ23 |
Our firm has a profound knowledge of our customers’ needs. |
ns |
SZ24 |
Our firm has a profound knowledge of the value chain through which we reach our customers. |
ns |
SZ25 |
At our firm, we constantly need products (platforms) or services developed by third parties in order to complement our own products or services. |
ns |
SZ26 |
Our firm adopts mechanisms to prevent errors and biases in relation to the information analyzed and the decisions are taken. |
ns |
SZ27 |
We seek external analyses or opinions on our information and decisions in order to avoid errors and biases. |
ns |
SZ28 |
We effectively use the information we have as a basis for our decisions. |
ns |
SZ29 |
We tend to request the opinions of people external to our firm as part of analyzing our decisions. |
ns |
SZ30 |
The rewards and remuneration system at our firm encourages innovation and creativity. |
ns |
MTR
|
MTR31 |
We know how to configure and reconfigure our resources and our organizational structure to adjust to changes and to the growth of our business. |
ns |
MTR32 |
Our firm is flexible. |
ns |
MTR33 |
Our firm has some type of board or forum for integration. |
ns |
MTR34 |
At our firm, we are able to identify externally in other firms or organizations assets that are complementary (specialized or cospecialized) to our requirements. |
0.674 |
MTR35 |
In our firm, we have the ability to integrate and develop the assets identified externally that are complementary (specialized or cospecialized). |
0.639 |
MTR36 |
We constantly identify opportunities for partnerships with external organizations. |
0.825 |
MTR37 |
We find it easy to implement and manage partnerships with external organizations. |
0.837 |
MTR38 |
We find it easy to integrate into our business the benefits gained from external partnerships. |
0.887 |
MTR39 |
The benefits we gain through partnerships with other firms constantly generate value for our customers. |
0.856 |
MTR40 |
Our firm has a strong ability to integrate knowledge and know-how with external partners. |
0.774 |
MTR41 |
Our firm manages and monitors ways of protecting our secrets and our intellectual property. |
0.439 |
MTR42 |
We adopt procedures to avoid transferring technology and intellectual property to our partners. |
ns |
Performance
|
FP43 |
Has been very profitable in the last 3 years. |
0.910 |
FP44 |
Has generated a high volume of sales in the last 3 years. |
0.874 |
FP45 |
Has achieved rapid growth in the last 3 years. |
0.866 |
SP46 |
Has improved its competitiveness in the last 3 years. |
0.830 |
SP47 |
Has strengthened its strategic positioning in the last 3 years. |
0.919 |
SP48 |
Has significantly increased its market share in the last 3 years. |
0.847 |
SaP49 |
Our performance in the domestic market has been very satisfactory over the last 3 years. |
0.882 |
SaP50 |
Our business in the domestic market has been very satisfactory over the last 3 years. |
0.715 |
SaP51 |
Our business in the domestic market has fully met our expectations over the last 3 years. |
0.879 |
IN
|
IN52 |
Our products and services are more innovative than the products and services of our competitors on the domestic market. |
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