Technology Governance and Strategy Assessment

IT Performance Management Maturity Assessment

Evaluates how IT sets, measures, reports, reviews, and improves performance across strategy, KPI design, goal cascade, data governance, data quality, dashboards, reviews, and analytics.

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Who it is for

  • Process Owner/Full Model Assessor
  • IT Leadership and Strategy
  • KPI Owners and Service Managers
  • BI, Data and Analytics Team
  • Team Leads and People Managers

CIO / IT Performance Manager / IT Strategy Lead / Service Delivery Director / BI and Analytics Lead. Secondary: KPI Owners, Team Leads, IT Finance.

What you will gain

Shows where measurement is disconnected from strategy, where data cannot be trusted, where dashboards go unread, and where reviews produce no action. Gives the CIO a path to trusted numbers and reviews that change results.

About this assessment

IT performance management connects strategy to results through measurement. Many IT organizations report dozens of KPIs that nobody trusts or acts on: definitions differ between teams, data is copied by hand, dashboards go unread, and monthly reviews end without decisions.

This assessment follows the measurement chain in the order it has to be built. It starts with the mandate: a policy, an engaged sponsor, and KPIs linked to strategy. It checks whether KPIs are cataloged, balanced, baselined, and actionable, and whether they cascade to teams with clear owners. It then tests whether KPI data has agreed meaning, one trusted source, traceable calculations, and automated, monitored collection. It looks at whether each audience gets a clear, self-service dashboard with alerts, whether reviews run on a reliable cadence and follow through on actions, and whether performance insight drives improvement, benchmarking, and prediction.

Each question is scored on three dimensions: Documented, Implemented, and Effective. This exposes practices that exist on paper but not in daily work, work that is done but never written down, and practices that run but are never measured. The result is a prioritized path to numbers people trust and reviews that change results.

What we assess: 8 domains

Each domain is a group of related questions, scored on its own and rolled up into your overall result.

01 · 6 questions

1 Performance Strategy and Mandate

Performance policy, engaged sponsor, strategy-to-KPI link, definitions of value and success, single framework method, measurement resources

02 · 7 questions

2 KPI Design and Relevance

Enterprise KPI catalog linked to practice metric dictionaries, balanced outcome and leading indicators, baselines and targets, response actions, KPI review and retirement, checks for metric gaming

03 · 5 questions

3 Goal Cascade and Accountability

Objectives cascaded to teams and individuals, accountable KPI owners, recognition of results, challenge of KPIs and targets

04 · 5 questions

4 Performance Data Governance

Agreed data definitions, owners and stewards, one authoritative source, traceable calculations, role-based access

05 · 6 questions

5 Data Collection and Quality

Automated collection, timely refresh, failed load monitoring, quality rule audits, anomaly screening, reduced manual reporting

06 · 5 questions

6 Dashboards and Visualization

Audience-specific dashboards, design standard, self-service and drill-down, visible trends, breach alerts

07 · 9 questions

7 Performance Review and Decision-Making

Review cadence and packs, data-based decisions, shared KPIs, variance analysis, escalation, action follow-through, target change control, review effectiveness, separating real change from normal variation

08 · 8 questions

8 Performance Improvement and Analytics

Improvement initiatives from gaps, benchmarking, breach prediction, in-year resource moves, blame-free discussion, self-assessment, indicator validity testing, checks on AI-generated insights

KPIs to track

Measures that show whether the improvements hold.

KPI
Strategy-to-KPI Linkage - Share of IT strategic objectives with at least one linked KPI. Target: 100%.
KPI Catalog Completeness - Share of reported KPIs with a complete catalog entry. Target: 100%.
KPI Data Quality - Share of audited KPIs passing all quality rules. Target: 95% or higher.
Review Action Follow-Through - Share of review actions completed by the due date. Target: 85% or higher.
Dashboard Adoption - Share of target audience using dashboards at least monthly. Target: 80% or higher.

Framework alignment

Questions are written in plain language and mapped to:

  • COBIT 2019
  • ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018
  • ISO 9001:2026
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022
  • ISO 7870-2:2023
  • NIST AI RMF 1.0
  • ISO/IEC 42001:2023

Works best with

Practices this assessment relies on. Assessing them too gives a fuller picture.

Technology Governance and Strategy (v10.9.6): owns the IT Strategy; KPIs must trace to its approved strategic objectives, and the hub reads the KPI Catalog and Strategy and Objective Cascade Map (its 3.3, 3.10 and 7.1).
Data Governance and Management (v1.9.6): KPI data governance relies on enterprise data definitions, ownership and quality rules.
Service Level Agreements and Performance (v5.9.6) and other practice models: practice metric dictionaries feed the enterprise KPI catalog.
Continual Service Improvement (v8.9.6) and Performance and Talent Management (v8.9.6): improvement register, individual objectives and recognition.
Recommended: Use the Service Level Agreements and Performance, Continual Service Improvement and Performance and Talent Management assessments for context.

What you get

Maturity scores

An overall score and a score for each of the 8 domains.

Gap analysis

A clear view of where current practice falls short, and why it matters.

Improvement recommendations

Prioritized next steps to move each area to the next level.

Detailed report

Results you can share with leadership and track over time.

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