Panorama

Panorama is BTS’s cognitive ability assessment that maps a person’s information-processing strengths to predict on-the-job performance. It’s used for participant insight and selection and complements the BTS Portrait for a fuller development picture. Typical administration time is ~25–30 minutes on any device.

• Participants & Leaders: Gain insight into personal cognitive strengths (“peaks & valleys”) to align roles and tasks. 
• Talent/HR & Hiring: Use in selection to predict performance with reduced adverse impact relative to many legacy 
• Program/PMO & Coaches: Pair with the Portrait for development journeys; integrate outputs into action planning. 

Panorama focuses on five core areas of information processing (illustrative definitions): 

• Logical Thinking: Solving clearly defined, difficult challenges efficiently.
• Complex Analysis: Tackling ill-defined, novel problems and ambiguity.
• Trend Identification: Spotting patterns, connections, and relationships in data.
• Innovative Acumen: Using nontraditional approaches and first-principles thinking.
• Agile Learning: Rapidly acquiring, interpreting, and applying information.

The test produces a profile of relative strengths rather than relying on educational skills (e.g., reading/math), helping reduce group differences while maintaining predictive validity.

• Format & length: ~25–30 minutes; standard 25 items drawn from a large pool; nine puzzle formats; mobile/desktop friendly; available in ~10 languages.
• Parallel forms & integrity: Millions of parallel versions mitigate sharing/cheat lists; timed items with unobtrusive progress indicator.
• Participant experience: Intuitive interface; option to provide a Development Report immediately after completion; no distracting global benchmark shown. 

• Development Report: Overall score + differentiated dimension scores with practical recommendations aligned to strengths—suited for learning journeys and coaching.
• Selection Report: Hiring-focused view for talent decisions; designed to be fair and job-relevant across diverse groups.
• Portrait pairing (recommended): For development, combine with the BTS Portrait to connect cognitive strengths with mindset/behavioral patterns.

• Pricing: Indicative internal guidance—$75 per individual; $100 when bundled with the Portrait. (Confirm current pricing before proposals.)
• Product owner: Emily.Crowe@bts.com 
• Integration: Can be embedded into journeys and scaled across cohorts; administer on any device. 

• Research lineage: Built over decades by a BTS-affiliated think tank; validated across industries with reliability reported at ~0.81 (leaders/professionals n>8,000). 
• Reduced adverse impact: Designed to support diversity and inclusion with minimized group differences vs. many legacy measures. 
• Industry adoption: Positive results reported with organizations such as Merck, SC Johnson, Morgan Stanley, Engie; also used in high-stakes contexts (e.g., public sector, pro sports).
• Awards: Recognized by SHRM/SIOP (HR Impact Award) and SIOP (M. Scott Myers Applied Research Award). 

• Development vs. selection: For learning journeys, share the Development Report and pair with coaching/Portrait; for hiring, use the Selection Report with role-relevant criteria. 
• Dispositional limits: As an intelligence measure, scores reflect relatively stable capacity; focus development on using strengths effectively rather than “training the test.” 
• Test security: Use fresh links/forms; leverage the large pool of parallel versions to reduce item exposure. 
• Language & access: Confirm supported languages (≈10) and device constraints in advance for global cohorts.