Data Maturity Assessment tool
Data Maturity Assessment tool – free version
How data mature is your organisation? Try the free version of our Data Maturity Assessment tool to find out.
This free version of our Data Maturity Assessment tool generally takes around 20 minutes to complete. Please try to answer questions based on your perception of the overall organisation, rather than you as an individual or from the perspective of a particular project or department. There are no right or wrong answers.
At the end you will receive a report that reflects how you personally scored your organisation.
We hope you find this free taster useful. Please bear in mind that Data Orchard's data maturity tool is designed for whole organisations to complete using our Organisation Data Maturity Assessment. This is because knowledge about data maturity is collectively held – and advanced – by all staff together. You may find, especially if you skip or answer don't know to a lot of questions, that your scores don't accurately reflect the current state of data maturity in your organisation. For a robust, reliable and up-to-date benchmark report we recommend you complete an Organisation DMA.
Explore pricing and packages for our Organisation Data Maturity Assessment or please do get in touch to discuss how our whole organisation assessment could benefit you.
Data Orchard's data maturity framework
What will my report tell me?
Data maturity is an organisation's journey towards improvement and increased capability in using data. This assessment covers seven key themes: Uses, Data, Analysis, Leadership, Culture, Tools, and Skills. Your overall results will indicate where your organisation is on the five stage data maturity journey: Unaware, Emerging, Learning, Developing or Mastering.
What do we mean by ‘data’?
When we say 'data' we have a broad definition. We include all the types of information your organisation collects, stores, analyses, and uses. It can be recorded in many formats: numbers, text, images, video, maps. For example it might include:
information about the people you serve (i.e. beneficiaries, clients, service users, customers)
which services they receive/or activities they engage with
how you engage with the people you serve and other stakeholders
financial information (costs, income)
details of staff, volunteers, and contractors
outcomes/impact measures
information about population needs/the environment held internally or by external bodies (e.g. health services, government, academics)
monitoring and evaluation
performance indicators.
And the list could go on….
Building a picture of the state of the sector
Anonymised aggregated data from respondents will be analysed for research purposes to help build understanding about data maturity in the not-for-profit sector. Read our privacy policy. Your responses will not be shared with anyone, though will enable us to monitor how representative of the sector our benchmark is. Please use your work email address otherwise we cannot include your anonymised results in our benchmarking data to benefit others.
MORE ABOUT THE TOOL
At Data Orchard, we have been researching and testing data maturity in the not-for-profit sector since 2015. We built this tool to help not-for-profits understand how they are doing with data, and to build a clearer picture of our sector's needs.
We are extremely grateful to our funding partners for their grant support towards the project. They are: Digital Impact, an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS); Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; and CAST – The Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology.
Find out more about data maturity and the background to our data maturity framework:
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.