Organisational awareness is an organisation’s ability to notice what is happening within and around it, understand what matters and respond before problems deepen or opportunities disappear.
It depends on more than reports and dashboards. People must be able to share weak signals, practical experience and inconvenient information—and leaders must be willing to hear what challenges their expectations.
An organisation may possess plenty of data and still be unaware. Awareness emerges when information from different parts of the organisation is connected, interpreted in context and used to question decisions and assumptions.
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