External Assessment
Article 6 of 9 | Operational Debt Series
External assessment isn't about finding what you don't know. It's about seeing what you can't see from your current vantage point.
Your operations staff see the inefficiencies. They've been reporting them for years. But they lack authority to fix them. You're measuring member satisfaction among the members who stayed - not the ones who left quietly for faster competitors.
Internal perspective is perfect for execution, fatal for assessment.
Normalization, defensive reasoning, and distributed knowledge mean you're literally unable to see the full scope of operational debt you're carrying.
Assessment isn't an expense. It's the prerequisite for informed decision-making about what's actually costing you.
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