DATA MATURITY ASSESSMENT TOOL

 
 

How data mature is your organisation? Try our data maturity assessment tool to find out.

So far our tool has helped almost 15,000 people from over 1,000 organisations to see where they are on their journey to data maturity. The assessment is based on our data maturity framework. It takes about 20 minutes to complete and provides a report, helping you identify areas for improvement and benchmark against others.

 
 

Choose the right version for you

 
DMA Individual version. Free. Single user.

Our free version for curious individuals and very small organisations.

✔ Complete on behalf of your organisation

✔ Basic report giving overall stage of data maturity

✔ Assessment scores across seven key themes

✔ Identified priorities and next stages for each theme

✔ Generic benchmarking against other respondents

Organisation. From £1,999 depending on turnover and sector. One organisation / unlimited users.

For organisations of any size. Choose from bronze, silver or gold packages.

✔ Live launch workshop

✔ Resource pack and support to maximise staff engagement

✔ Customisation with logo and up to five of your own questions (enabling internal benchmarking by team)

✔ Reports for each respondent plus overall organisational report showing stage of data maturity, theme scores, identified priorities and next stages

✔ Custom benchmarking against validated organisations by sector/s

✔ Copy of organisation’s data

Network Version. Starts from £7,499 depending on turnover and sector. One network lead / unlimited orgs and users.

For networks or membership bodies comparing results across multiple orgs.

✔ Live launch workshop

✔ Resource pack and support to maximise member engagement

✔ Customisation with logo and up to five of your own questions

✔ Reports for each individual respondent plus overall network report comparing data maturity across member organisations.

✔ Custom benchmarking for the network, plus two other sectors

✔ Copy of network's data

Cohort. From £9,999 depending on turnover and sector. One cohort lead / 5+ organisations

Full organisation assessments for multiple orgs with cohort analysis.

✔ Everything in organisational plan (choose from bronze, silver or gold package) for each cohort member, plus:

✔ Live launch cohort workshop

✔ Custom analysis and report for cohort lead

✔ Results event for the whole cohort

✔ Custom benchmarking for the cohort, plus custom benchmarking against other validated organisations (by sector and subsector)

✔ Copy of cohort’s data

 


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Data Orchard’s data maturity self assessment tool is an absolute MUST for non profits who are serious about using their data to understand and improve performance. I can’t recommend it enough!
— Susie Mullen, Data consultant

How does it work?

Our assessment tool asks staff a series of questions about their organisation’s data maturity and measures where the organisation is on its journey.

The free version can be used by an individual. The organisation version allows the whole organisation to complete the assessment from their own perspective - usually as part of an online workshop - , and provides both individual and organisational reports. This will show where your organisation scores across seven key themes (Uses, Data, Analysis, Leadership, Culture, Tools, and Skills) and gives you an overall data maturity score. It also identifies priorities to focus on and what moving to the next stage would look like.

The data maturity assessment tool is the most comprehensive and well researched and developed when it comes to understanding and developing data capacity within nonprofit organisations.
— Nissa Ramsay, Think Social Tech
 
 

How organisations are using the tool

Discover how other organisations have used the Data Maturity Assessment tool as part of their journey to improved data management and impact.

Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has used our tool since 2021 to assess data maturity in cohorts of public sector organisations, as part of a wider data maturity strategy. Hear from Shona Nichol, Head of Data Strategy

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Dr Jenny Andrew says that using the assessment with staff was key to helping the CSP focus effort in the right places rather than taking a scattergun approach to improvement. Find out more


The Cart Shed

The Cart Shed have been on a 4-year data maturity journey and have used the assessment to guide their work and measure their success along the way. See what they've achieved

Citizens Advice Manchester

Citizens Advice Manchester say the tool helped them move from a situation where data was one person’s responsibility, to one where data was everyone’s opportunity. Read more

Prostate Cancer UK

Prostate Cancer UK used the Data Maturity Assessment to inform their first data strategy as an organisation and to engage staff in the importance of improving how they used data. Find out more

Honeycomb Group

Asking different parts of the charity to take the assessment helped create a heat map of areas of need, and convinced senior leaders of the importance of improving data maturity. Read on

We shared the results with our leadership team to benchmark transparently where we were at and build a plan to improve based on the results, and advocated for resources to implement our improvement plan. The results pushed our leadership to make progress on our data maturity.
— Lucas Gerber, Children’s Health Fund