Gartner Score Diagnostic Family

The Gartner Score Diagnostic Family provides a set of interactive maturity assessments designed to help you measure, prioritize, and improve your function’s performance on critical activities. The best way to decide which improvements are most valuable to your organization’s performance is to understand which activities have the most critical gaps between maturity and your organization’s business priorities.

Instead of simply targeting low maturity activities, Gartner Score diagnostics optimizes your business resources by identifying activities that need to perform at a higher maturity based on your organization’s strategy. Being able to look across the entire function or capability provides vital context because activities don’t operate in isolation but in conjunction with, and supportive of, one another.

How do I use Gartner Score diagnostics?

Gartner Score diagnostics help you prioritize areas based on Gartner’s experience and research into what defines high-performing organizations. After you assess your organization’s performance against a peer-based framework, you can identify your most critical maturity gaps and review customized step-by-step maturity roadmaps that provide resources and recommendations to help you close these gaps.

The results enable you to see (and share with your colleagues) a graphical analysis of the gap between maturity and what’s important to generate tangible results for your business. Other views in the results include depicting the differences between leaders and team viewpoints, identifying alignment gaps that may impede organizational progress.

Who should participate?

There are three different strategies for choosing participants. Each are equally valid approaches but can reveal different nuances.

1. The first approach is to simply take a Gartner Score diagnostic yourself. That is the quickest and easiest option and will allow you to review your results as soon as you complete the diagnostic.
   
   
2. If you’d like to gain the insights and expertise from your team, invite them to participate as well. We recommend inviting the functional leaders who are best able to assess how the team performs each activity, and the relative importance of the activity to your organization’s objectives. Typically, this no more than 10 to 12 trusted leaders who have in-depth knowledge of some parts of your business, even if they may not be familiar with others.
   
   Another benefit of this approach is being able to see where your view differs from that of your team. As you deploy the survey, you can nominate yourself, or one or more people as a leader. Your Gartner Score report then includes a slide showing how the leader’s view differs from the aggregate view of the rest of the team, indicating potential differences in alignment.
   
   
3. The final approach is to gather your team in a room or on a conference call and go through the survey, discuss, air opinions and come to a consensus for each answer together. This approach ensures all team members express impressions in open discussion and come to a group consensus. It can make the result more actionable, since everyone is aligned on the inputs, it’s easier to act on the outputs. Keep in mind, there is always a potential risk that this approach could stifle valuable dissenting voices.