Org design and decision rights

Downloads

Files you keep and edit: PDF, Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Most show part of the file before you ask for it.

• Decision-rights matrix
  Federated Decision-Rights Matrix
  A RACI matrix that sets who decides common IT questions in a federated model: central IT or the business unit.
• Assessment
  Cognitive-Load Assessment for IT Teams
  A 15-question assessment that scores a team's cognitive load across five dimensions and bands the total as healthy, elevated or critical.
• Canvas
  Internal-Platform Product Canvas
  A canvas that sets out an internal platform as a product: its users, their jobs, the paved road, adoption metrics and anti-goals.
• Worksheet
  Stakeholder Map
  Map a program's stakeholders on power and interest, compare current and needed stance, and plan each one's engagement, cadence and owner.

Online tools

Fill in the page and get the result on screen. No account needed.

• Assessment
  IT Operating Model Fit
  Is Your Operating Model Aligned with Your Ambition — or Holding You Back?
• Assessment
  Decision Velocity Index
  How Fast Does Your Tech Org Actually Make Decisions?

Apps

Enter your situation and get the analysis back: a score, a draft or a plan. They run with a CIOPages account.

• App
  Organizational Friction Detector
  Surface the structural and process friction that is slowing technology delivery in your org.
• App
  Hiring Capacity Modeler
  Model the cost and capacity of a hiring plan, with your own overhead and ramp-up assumptions.

Other sets

• Management consulting tools for CIOs
• Deciding where AI goes
• Cutting cloud and SaaS spend
• Governing the AI already in use
• Buying AI: vendors and models
• Buying technology without regret
• AI regulation and risk
• Architecture decisions that hold up
• Technical debt you can show the CFO
• Security platform evaluations
• Running IT like an investment portfolio
• The first 100 days as a CIO
• Board and budget season
• Incidents and resilience