Know where your operational excellence really stands
A free, private self-assessment on the World Opex Excellence Framework: 72 practices across six dimensions and 28 facets, written in your industry's own words. Rate what you observe, get your maturity level, your recognition gates, and the next rung to reach on your largest gaps.
Six dimensions, 28 facets, 72 practices
Each practice is rated on the rung you observe and recorded as 1, 3 or 9, so strong and weak practices stand out. Results carry the most weight, then methodology, because that is what separates a deployed program from a sustained one.
Leadership and culture
15%Leaders set a long-term direction, show up where the work happens, develop people, and make it safe to surface problems. The organization is governed responsibly and keeps people safe.
Purpose and direction · Leader behaviors and presence · Respect, trust and safety culture · Governance, ethics and responsibility
Strategy and alignment
12%Strategy is built from what customers and stakeholders need, cascades to the front line as measurable goals, is reviewed through a daily management rhythm, and is protected by risk and continuity planning.
Strategy and deployment · Customer and stakeholder value focus · Performance management and daily management · Risk, resilience and continuity
Methodology and process discipline
20%Work is designed to flow, runs to a standard, builds quality in, and is improved with a recognized method applied rigorously. Assets, technology, data and the supply chain are managed with the same discipline.
Process design and flow · Standards and stability · Quality at the source · Structured problem solving · Assets, technology, data and digital · Supply chain and partner processes
People and capability
13%People are taught to do the work right, developed across skills, involved in improving it every day, organized in teams that own their zone, and supported by fair structures and healthy working conditions.
Skills and learning · Involvement and teamwork · Organization design and roles · Wellbeing and participation
Results and impact
28%The operating system delivers measured outcomes for customers, for the operation, for the business, for people and for the environment and society, sustained over time and better than comparable organizations.
Customer and stakeholder outcomes · Operational performance · Financial and business outcomes · People outcomes · Environmental and social outcomes
Sustainability and continuous improvement
12%Improvement is a daily habit, gains are locked in, the organization innovates and learns, and it operates sustainably for the environment and society. Sustainability here means both sustaining gains and sustainable operations.
Daily improvement habit · Sustaining gains · Innovation and design for operations · Learning, review and knowledge sharing · Sustainable operations
From Emerging to Excelling
Your level comes from the weighted percent of maximum across the six dimensions. Recognition also needs the gates: leader presence at the work, safety culture, compliance, safety results, and evidenced results in every results facet.
Results depend on individuals; few systems. Mostly rung 1 and 2 practices.
Methods are being learned; pockets of good practice.
Standards, metrics and problem solving run consistently across the unit.
Leaders drive daily improvement; results compound; several practices at benchmark.
A benchmark for others; self-sustaining and evolving.
Free, private, about 30 to 40 minutes
Tell us what you are assessing
A group, a company, a plant, a value stream, a department, a team or yourself. Pick your industry and the descriptors switch to your sector's language.
Rate 72 practices
Five rung descriptors per practice, with proof points and an example of what the top rung looks like. Choose Not sure when you have no evidence.
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Maturity level, dimensions and facets, recognition gates, primary constraint, and the next rung to reach on your ten largest gaps.
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Your maturity report
Overall maturity level
Emerging to Excelling, with your percent of maximum and whether the recognition gates are met.
Dimension and facet profile
A radar across six dimensions and a status for each of the 28 facets.
Ten largest weighted gaps
Each with the next rung to reach, and a 30-day focus on your primary constraint.
Award readiness
How your practices stand against the World Opex Awards judging criteria, with scope reported separately.
Executive summary and PDF
A one-page summary for your leadership team, downloadable and shareable.
Trend and roll-ups with an account
Every unit in one place, year-on-year movement, and comparison with your industry once enough peers have assessed.
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