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Business Maturity Self-Assessment Tools

Before you can improve performance, you need to understand where you are and what’s holding you back. These tools give you a clear, objective starting point for change.
 
 
 

Understand Your Maturity. Accelerate Your Improvement.

  • To truly elevate performance, you have to understand the status quo and Oliver Wight’s Business Maturity Self-Assessment Tools are engineered to guide this vital clarity. Based on our Maturity Model, these quick, intuitive online resources give you a valuable picture of your organisation’s present capabilities and reveal the steps to unlocking future growth.

  • To improve performance, you first need to understand where you are. In today’s fast-moving, constantly changing world, progress doesn’t come from following trends or rolling out the latest initiative. It comes from making the right improvements at the right time, in the right order.
  • Oliver Wight’s Business Maturity Self-Assessment Tools help you do just that. Based on our trusted Maturity Model, these quick, free, online tools give you a clear picture of your organisation’s current capability and what needs to happen next to unlock better performance.
 
 
 
 

How Mature Is Your Business?

Supply Chain Maturity Tool

How mature is your Supply Chain?

Portfolio Optimisation Maturity Tool

How mature is your Portfolio Optimisation?

Integrated Business Planning Maturity Tool

How mature is your Integrated Business Planning?

Demand Management Maturity Tool

How mature is your Demand Management Process?
 
 
 
 

What is the Oliver Wight Business Maturity Model?

Developed from a Harvard Business School study for the US Government, the Oliver Wight Maturity Model helps organisations understand their true level of operational maturity — not just in process terms, but in leadership, behaviours and readiness for change.

It identifies where your business sits today and what’s required to move forward. The model defines four key phases of maturity:

  • Co-ordination

    Informal processes, limited cross-functional collaboration

  • Business Process Control

    More structure, but still reactive decision-making

  • Automation

    Systems support processes, but integration is limited

  • Integration

    Strategic, behavioural and operational alignment across the enterprise
 
 
 

What Will The Tool Tell Me?

Each assessment gives you:

– A clear view of your current maturity level
– Key gaps between where you are and where you need to be
– The behaviours, processes and capabilities required to progress
– A practical starting point for planning and prioritising change
 
 

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the Oliver Wight Business Maturity Self-Assessment Tools?

These are quick, free, and intuitive online resources designed to give organisations a clear, objective starting point for change. Before rolling out new initiatives, these assessments help you understand your current capabilities and identify the exact improvements you need to make—in the right order—to unlock sustainable growth and better performance.

Which specific areas of my business can I assess?

Oliver Wight currently offers four targeted self-assessment tools to evaluate different critical functions:

  • Supply Chain Maturity Tool
  • Portfolio Optimisation Maturity Tool
  • Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Maturity Tool
  • Demand Management Maturity Tool

What is the Oliver Wight Business Maturity Model?

The self-assessments are built upon this proven model, which was originally developed from a Harvard Business School study for the US Government. It evaluates your true level of operational maturity, leadership, behaviours, and readiness for change. It classifies businesses into four key phases:

  • Co-ordination: Informal processes with limited cross-functional collaboration.
  • Business Process Control: More structure in place, but decision-making remains largely reactive.
  • Automation: Systems are supporting processes, but overall integration is still limited.
  • Integration: Complete strategic, behavioural, and operational alignment across the enterprise.

What actionable information will the assessment provide?

Once you complete a tool, you won’t just get a score. You will receive a clear view of your current maturity level alongside the key gaps between where you are today and where you need to be. It outlines the specific behaviours, processes, and capabilities required to progress to the next phase, giving you a highly practical starting point for planning and prioritising change.

Who within the organisation should use these tools?

The tools are designed to provide valuable insights for various leadership roles:

  • Business Leaders: To reveal execution shortfalls, break down organisational silos, and foster confident decision-making.
  • Finance Leaders: To shift from retrospective reporting to forward-looking influence by connecting financial plans with real-world operations.
  • Supply Chain Leaders: To uncover maturity gaps, streamline planning, and ensure agile, connected operations.
  • Sales & Marketing Leaders: To understand how effectively marketing is integrated into broader business planning and to align campaigns with commercial performance.
 
 

Who Are These Tools For?

Business Leaders

Focused on turning strategic ambition into measurable outcomes, you’ll find these tools invaluable. They help reveal where execution is falling short, break down organisational silos, and support more coordinated, confident decision-making across the enterprise.

Finance Leaders

Looking to shift from retrospective reporting to forward-looking influence, these tools show how to connect financial planning with real-world operations, improving forecast reliability, strategic insight, and cross-functional ownership of the numbers.

Supply Chain Leaders

Working to build agile, connected operations, you’ll use these assessments to uncover maturity gaps, streamline planning processes, and ensure supply chain strategy is executed effectively across teams and time horizons.

Sales & Marketing Leaders

Driving growth and customer engagement, you’ll gain clarity on how well marketing is integrated into broader business planning. These tools highlight opportunities to align campaign activity, portfolio goals and commercial performance.

 
 
 
The Oliver Wight Maturity Model pitches an organisation in the correct phase, so you can truly understand where the business sits, visualise the benefits a structured improvement program can bring, and begin the journey to business excellence.
Les Brookes, Partner at Oliver Wight
 
 

What Comes Next?

Your results can be used to guide internal discussion, focus improvement efforts, and inform your next steps. You can explore the maturity model further, or speak to us about what your results mean in context. With our support, you can move from isolated improvement efforts to integrated performance using the Oliver Wight Proven Path to build the alignment, clarity and capability needed to succeed.

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