Quick Diagnosis

Where do you actually stand?

Seven plain questions on one of three areas. It takes about two minutes, there is nothing to sign up for, and the result appears on this page. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or stored.

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Which of these is on your mind?

Artificial Intelligence

Whether AI use in your organisation is visible, bounded and accountable.

1Do you know which AI tools your people currently use for work?

Including the ones nobody formally approved.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

2Is it clear what information must never be entered into an AI tool?

And do the people who would enter it know that?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

3Has anyone been made accountable for AI use?

A named person, not a committee in principle.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

4Is AI output checked by a person before it reaches a customer or a decision?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

5Do you assess an AI tool before it is adopted?

Data handling, retention, and what the supplier does with what you put in.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

6Have your people had any guidance on using AI safely?

Written guidance they could find again.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

7Would you be able to explain to an outsider how AI is used here?

An auditor, a regulator or a customer.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

Digital Transformation

Whether technology change is directed, funded and measured deliberately.

1Is there a written technology direction your leadership has approved?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

2Do you know what you spend on technology in total each year?

Across all departments, not just the IT budget.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

3Can you say what a recent technology investment actually delivered?

Against the case that was made for it.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

4Is it clear who approves a change to a live system?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

5Does someone own each significant system by name?

Not a department. A person.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

6Do you know how your main systems depend on each other?

What breaks if one becomes unavailable.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

7Are technology decisions recorded so a successor could follow them?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

Security and Resilience

Whether you would cope, and whether you could show that in advance.

1Do you know which systems the organisation genuinely cannot operate without?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

2Is there a written plan for a critical system becoming unavailable?

One that has been read by the people who would use it.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

3Has that plan ever been tested?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

4Do you know where your important data is held, and by whom?

Including anything held by a supplier.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

5Are security responsibilities assigned to named people?

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

6Would you know if something had gone wrong?

Detection, not just prevention.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

7Do you know how long you keep customer and staff information?

And whether anyone acts on that.

Not at all Informally Partly Mostly Fully

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What this is, and is not

An honest indication, not an assessment

This is a self-assessment. It reflects what you already believe about your organisation, which is useful for deciding where to look first, and not the same as evidence. A Preliminary Maturity Assessment tests those beliefs against what is actually there, and produces something your leadership can act on.

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