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
Our free version for use by very small organisations and/or curious individuals.
✔ Complete on your own or as a small group 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
✔ Benchmarking against the sector
For organisations with 10+ staff. Choose from bronze, silver or gold packages.
✔ Introductory workshop and engagement resource pack to support communications with staff
✔ Customisation with own logo and up to five custom questions
✔ Reports for each respondent plus overall organisational report showing stage of data maturity, theme scores, identified priorities and next stages
✔ Benchmarking against the sector
✔ Copy of organisation’s data
For networks, memberships and those working with multiple organisations.
✔ Everything in organisational plan (choose from bronze, silver or gold package) for each cohort member, plus:
✔ Introductory event for the whole cohort
✔ Custom benchmarking for the cohort
✔ Custom analysis and report for cohort lead
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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!”
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.”
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.”
MORE ABOUT THE TOOL
Want to know how we got to this point? Read more about the background behind our research into data maturity and how the data maturity framework was developed.