Investment tool - RescEWE Learningplatform

Welcome to your Investment tool - How ready are you?

Try the investment tool and get our evaluation. You will also find recommendations to, what you can pay attention to, when preparing.

The investment tool builds on experience from 3.200 owning managers.

What do you plan to invest in?

digitization

Employment development

New production technology

Purchase of company

New products

Entry into foreign markets

Research and development

New services

New suppliers

Sales platform

Entry into new domestic markets

New sales channels

Outsourcing

Insourcing

Other

How risky do you estimate, the investment is to your company

1 (Low risk)

2

3

4

5 (High risk)

Which of the following statements best describe your approach to decide, whether or not to make the investment?

No estimate

Simple estimates

thorough estimates (Excel sheets or similar)

Have you worked with multiple different scenarios prior to the investment? (With scenarios we mean different outcomes of the investment)

No

Yes

Is the investment concretized into plans and processes

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Are your employees involved in the preporations prior to investing?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Have you considered what can cause the investment to fail?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Have you considered what can make the investment give the highest possible return?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Do you have sufficient financial ressources to go through with the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Can additional finances be acquired if necessary (e.g as result of unforseen surcomstances)?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Do you also have sufficient financial ressources for operations and development of the existing business?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Has ressources been set aside (time/money) to train employees in regards to the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Does your employees have the nessecary time and skills to lift the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Is it possible to recruit employees with the necessary skills, if the investment should require it?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Has your employees sufficient ressources to also focus on the existing business, while the investment is going on?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Are the employees ready for change, so you can achieve the advantages of the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Will the business depend on few select employees, when the investment is done?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Does the business have the necessary leader ressources (time/skills) to go through with the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Does the business have the necessary leader ressources to focus on the existing business, while the investment is being made?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Does a leader have responsibility for the investment being seen through and put to work subsequently?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Are there essential conflics in the business or private relations for you or anyone in the leadership(divorce, sickness og alike), that can take focus away from the business?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Have you involved external consults/auditors in preparation to the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Have you or any other leader discussed the investment with people outside the business (family, friends, network, partners)?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Have you considered other peoples experience with the same type of investment in preparation to the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Do you have clear expectations regarding the advantages that needs to be achieved, and the costs with the investment?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Are you planning to monitor the investment closely, and see if the expected advantages are met, and if the cost is staying within budget?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Will your internal reports clarify, if the investment is progressing as expected?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)

Are you ready to react, if challenges arise regarding the investment, or if the expected advantages are being realised slower than expected?

1 (Not at all)

2

3

4

5 (Greatly)