ESI's Impact Model: Benchmarking and Validating Progress

ESI's Impact Model - Assess

Assess: Defining Where You Are and Where You Want to Go

Assessments are the platform around which your organization’s learning solutions are engineered. And as a baseline, they’re a key part of the validation process that lets you show improvement results and ROI once your program is complete.

A cross-functional team of ESI experts works with you to gain insight into your organization’s best practices, methodologies, governance and unique challenges, as well as an understanding of your distinct goals and objectives.

Factors such as culture, technology, and learning behavior within your organization are also carefully considered in driving an effective solution for performance improvement implementation within your organization.



Individual Assessments 

  • PMAppraise®, PM360TM and BAAppraise® – ESI’s proprietary assessments examine individual knowledge, competencies, application of skills and behavior in order to set a baseline for improvement.


Organizational Assessments 

  • OPM3®, ProjectFRAMEWORK® – These are used to assess organizational maturity in the areas of project, program and portfolio management. Findings lead to an organizational improvement “roadmap”.
  • PMBaseline – Measures the application and quality of project management practices against the top 25 key project management deliverables, as defined in ESI’s project management methodology.
  • Level III Application Assessment - Examines an organization’s application of skills learned through on-the-job training and reports on the resulting benefits.
  • Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) - has proven to increase project efficiency and productivity in many organizations. ESI can assess your current state of PPM and help develop a comprehensive portfolio management approach and structure; as well as assist in tool selection for your organization.
  • Custom surveys and interviews – Conducted to explore organizational-specific and highly targeted results.


The results of these people, process and tools assessments help us to identify, categorize, and prioritize current practices and behaviors, leverage best practices, as well as analyze gaps and establish areas for improvement.

Having gained a comprehensive understanding of your staff skill levels and organizational goals, we can then create and follow a road map toward measurable results.