Operational barriers
Helps identify unnecessary approvals, unclear decisions, and work obstacles that slow people down every day.
2 categories · 10 questions · An employee, team lead, or manager of a small team whose work depends on internal approvals, work processes, handoffs between roles, and digital tools.
data stays in-country · answers are anonymized
When to conduct this survey
The team complains that simple tasks take too much time. People are bogged down in bureaucracy, long approvals, and inconvenient tools. You want to find specific operational barriers that prevent working faster and reduce productivity.
What the survey shows
The survey breaks the topic down into dimensions — for each you can see what works and where growth points are hidden.
Approvals and decision rights
Shows where tasks slow down because the decision owner is unclear, there are unnecessary checks, approval is delayed, or the criteria are not transparent.
Tools, processes, and workarounds
Repeated entry, manual reconciliation, fragmented data, handoffs between roles, and informal ways of getting work done.
Example questions
Each question is a scale rating and an open-ended clarification: a person doesn’t just assign a score, but explains their answer in their own words.
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In typical work tasks, it is clear to me who has the authority to make the final decision or approve the next step.
Disagree Agreefollow-up question
In which typical tasks is it most often unclear who can make the final decision or approve the next step?
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In typical work tasks, approvals do not repeat the same check or go through unnecessary levels without a clear reason.
Disagree Agreefollow-up question
Please specify the part of the work where approvals most often repeat the same check or go through unnecessary levels.
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In work tasks, it is usually clear to me how long to expect an approval decision to take and who to contact if the response is delayed.
Disagree Agreefollow-up question
Where does a decision most often get stuck without a clear timeline or escalation rule?
Open clarifications are part of the cycle methodology: Behind every score, live context remains; from it, AI extracts reasons, not just averages.
What kind of report you’ll get
The report will identify bottlenecks in processes: where decision rights are distributed inefficiently, which approvals delay work, and where employees have to invent workarounds due to broken tools or confusing regulations.
Not a single score, but a condition map and discovered growth points — on anonymized summaries. AI prepares options, the decision and responsibility remain with people. Next — to cycle steps.
condition map
Growth point → action
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