Is applying CAF enough to improve the performance of the organisation?
CAF will help you to establish strengths and areas of improvement and is a powerful instrument to initiate a process of continuous improvement. It gives you an initial impression of how the organisation performs, it allows for the improvement actions to be focused where they are most needed and it shows how the organisation improves over time, if the CAF is applied a second time. It should therefore be seen as the start of a continuous improvement process and will not in itself improve the performance of the organisation. The most important thing to be done as a result of the self-assessment is to take measures. If CAF should make sense it is necessary to make an action-plan on the basis of the self-assessment results and to take measures!
