A 60-question diagnostic that maps your organization across the five domains of the Helix Capability Model™. Produces a Capability Gap Report: your priority gaps, the compounding relationships between them, and the sequence to address them in the right order.
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Rating scale
1 Not present
2 Early / isolated
3 Developing / inconsistent
4 Established / consistent
5 Leading / advantage
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Leadership & Organizational Maturity
12 questions · 1–5 maturity scale
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The degree to which leadership understands, models, and enables transformation — and whether the organizational structure supports rather than resists it.
Q1
Senior leaders articulate a clear transformation narrative that goes beyond efficiency messaging.
Q2
Leaders visibly model the behaviors they ask their teams to adopt.
Q3
Decision-making authority is pushed down to the level with the best information.
Q4
Organizational structure is organized around value streams rather than functions.
Q5
Leaders actively protect teams from organizational impediments.
Q6
Transformation investment is treated as a strategic priority, not a cost line.
Q7
Leadership team has direct experience with the methods they are sponsoring.
Q8
There is a named owner for transformation with real authority and budget.
Q9
Leaders speak publicly about failures and what they learned from them.
Q10
The organization has eliminated at least one legacy structural impediment in the last 12 months.
Q11
Leaders regularly spend time working alongside frontline teams.
Q12
Succession planning actively develops leaders who can sustain transformation.
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Execution Discipline
12 questions · 1–5 maturity scale
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The organization's ability to translate strategy into reliable, measurable delivery — with consistent flow, minimal waste, and clear accountability.
Q1
Work is organized into small, independently deliverable increments.
Q2
Teams have explicit agreements about how work enters and exits their system.
Q3
Cycle time from idea to customer is measured and trending downward.
Q4
Blocked work is surfaced and escalated within 24 hours.
Q5
Teams run retrospectives that produce action items with owners and deadlines.
Q6
Planning is continuous rather than locked in annual or quarterly cycles.
Q7
Dependencies between teams are explicitly mapped and managed.
Q8
Work in progress limits are defined and honored.
Q9
Teams have the authority to stop work that does not meet agreed criteria.
Q10
The organization measures and acts on flow efficiency, not just output.
Q11
Technical debt is quantified and treated as a delivery risk, not a backlog item.
Q12
Teams can deploy independently without requiring coordination with other teams.
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AI-Enabled Insight
12 questions · 1–5 maturity scale
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The degree to which the organization uses AI to surface, interpret, and act on insight — and whether that AI use is intentional, governed, and building rather than eroding organizational judgment.
Q1
AI tools are used to surface patterns in data that humans could not efficiently process.
Q2
There is a governance framework for which decisions AI can inform vs. which it cannot make.
Q3
AI outputs are verified before they influence significant decisions.
Q4
Staff understand the limitations of the AI tools they use.
Q5
The organization tracks which AI use cases are generating value and which are not.
Q6
AI is used to reduce time spent on low-judgment, high-volume work.
Q7
Leaders can name the three AI use cases generating the most organizational value.
Q8
There is a clear process for identifying new AI opportunities and evaluating them.
Q9
The organization measures human judgment capacity alongside AI adoption.
Q10
AI training data reflects the organization's actual context, not generic benchmarks.
Q11
There is a named person or team responsible for AI governance.
Q12
The organization has run and learned from at least three structured AI experiments.
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Strategic Alignment
12 questions · 1–5 maturity scale
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The coherence between strategy, investment, structure, and execution — and the speed at which misalignment is detected and corrected.
Q1
Every team can articulate how their work connects to organizational strategy.
Q2
OKRs or equivalent are set at organizational, team, and individual levels.
Q3
Budget follows strategy rather than history.
Q4
Product portfolios are explicitly prioritized against strategic goals.
Q5
Teams have clear mandates that do not conflict with other teams' mandates.
Q6
Strategy is reviewed and adjusted at least quarterly based on evidence.
Q7
The organization has killed or reduced at least one strategic initiative in the last 12 months when evidence did not support it.
Q8
Technology investment decisions are made with explicit strategic intent.
Q9
Partnerships and vendor relationships are evaluated against strategic fit.
Q10
There is a documented process for escalating strategic misalignment.
Q11
Leaders can name the two or three bets the organization is not making and why.
Q12
Customer and market insight directly influences strategic planning cycles.
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Measurement & Feedback Loops
12 questions · 1–5 maturity scale
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The quality, speed, and honesty of the feedback systems the organization uses to know whether it is moving in the right direction — and whether those systems drive the behaviors that actually matter.
Q1
The organization measures outcomes for customers, not just outputs for internal stakeholders.
Q2
Leading indicators are defined alongside lagging indicators for every strategic goal.
Q3
Metrics are reviewed weekly at team level, not monthly at leadership level.
Q4
The organization can trace a customer problem to the team responsible within one day.
Q5
There is at least one metric per team that measures the quality of work, not just volume.
Q6
Metrics are publicly visible to everyone affected by them.
Q7
Teams have the authority to change what they measure when current metrics stop being informative.
Q8
The organization has identified and eliminated at least one metric that was driving bad behavior.
Q9
Feedback from customers reaches product teams within days, not quarters.
Q10
Experiment results — including failures — are documented and shared across teams.
Q11
Leaders use data to challenge their own assumptions, not only to confirm them.
Q12
The organization has a clear definition of what "done" looks like for its transformation.
All 60 questions answered. The AI will now synthesise your Capability Gap Report — this takes about 30 seconds.
Analysing 60 responses across 5 domains…
Synthesising your Capability Gap Report. This takes about 30 seconds.
Capability Gap Report
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