How expensive is your “it works anyway” really?

If someone says “I never approved that”, what can you prove?

Which of these do you see regularly in day-to-day work? (Multiple choice)

How much does the onboarding of new employees depend on individual people?

How confident are you that you can be operational again within 24 hours after a data loss?

How many systems or tools need to work together for your day-to-day business to run smoothly?

How often does your team work in firefighting mode instead of working to plan?

How well can you see at a glance where your most important processes currently stand?

Your most important person is out for three weeks, what happens to daily operations?

Which of these is actually documented at your company, readable, not just in someone’s head? (Multiple choice)

For this question, MISSING checkboxes count as risk.

For how many people in the company do you think: “Without them it doesn’t work”?

How does a handover work for holidays or sickness?

For your most critical tasks, is there someone who could take over immediately?

How much runs on “everyone just knows that” instead of a readable rule?

How much time goes into coordination that a clean workflow could actually handle?

Which of these steps are you or your team still doing by hand? (Multiple choice)

How often is the same data entered more than once or transferred by hand?

How often does something need reworking because information was missing or wrong?

What typically happens when an approval is due?

Is the same task always done the same way, or does it depend on who does it?

How often does a process stall because it waits on a decision, a person or another system?

When something changes (a price, a workflow, a rule), how much effort is it to update everywhere?

How well do your most important systems talk to each other?

Which of these unofficial helpers are in use at your company? (Multiple choice)

When the same information sits in two systems, does it match?

For your key data (customers, orders, stock), is there one reliable single source?

How much of your system work is carrying information from A to B?

Which protective measures are actually in place, not just planned? (Multiple choice)

For this question, MISSING checkboxes count as risk.

Suppose nothing works tomorrow morning: encrypted, deleted, access gone. What do you do?

When someone leaves the company, how quickly and reliably are all their accesses closed?

When did you last check that a backup can actually be restored?

How dependent are you on a single external provider whom hardly anyone could replace?

If everything stays as it is now, where do you see yourself in a year?

What do your manual detours and duplicate work cost you per month?

How many people work in the company in total?

Which workload signals are you currently seeing in your team? (Multiple choice)

How much headroom would your team have to take on more work without something breaking?

What currently holds you back most from generating significantly more revenue?

When an important figure or record changes, can you say who did it and when?

Can you prove that a spend, an offer or an approval was actually signed off?

How clear is it in the company who is responsible for which workflow?

If an audit or a customer dispute came tomorrow, how quickly do you have the records together?

Important decisions and their reasoning: where do they end up?

What is the one point currently costing you the most energy? (optional)