Governance maturity assessment
An assessment across seven dimensions, with a tailored reading of strengths, gaps, and signals that merit attention.
ASSESS. UNDERSTAND. ADVANCE.
Where does your governance journey begin?
Understand your organization’s governance maturity, explore the drivers behind the findings, and identify improvement priorities based on evidence.
Start your governance maturity assessmentAn initial assessment to help you identify where to start.
A CONNECTED JOURNEY
From maturity to action priorities
Deep organizational diagnosis
Explore a problem and test competing explanations, distinguishing evidence strength from diagnostic confidence.
A report that supports decisions
Detailed findings and an initial action plan. The final deep diagnosis report is available as a paid service through direct contact.
A TRANSPARENT APPROACH
Evidence first. Interpretations that stay within it.
The assessment uses the participant’s responses, organizational context, and reported evidence. Adaptive questions help explore interpretations without automatically changing the base score.
This is an assessment and diagnosis aid, not a compliance certificate or a substitute for professional evidence verification.
Who is the governance maturity assessment for?
Companies and organizations
Identify a starting point before developing governance arrangements or adding more policies.
Family businesses and medium-sized enterprises
Build practical governance suited to organizational size, ownership, and decision-making.
Organizations with unclear decision authority
Understand overlapping roles, escalation routes, and decision-making responsibilities.
Organizations undergoing growth or change
Navigate expansion, restructuring, or the establishment of organizational systems.
Governance assessment or compliance review?
Governance assessment
- Explores maturity through self-reported information.
- Examines roles, authority, and actual practices.
- Helps prioritize improvements.
- Provides an initial organizational assessment, not a legal determination.
Compliance review
- Checks adherence to specific legal or regulatory requirements.
- Focuses on conformity and compliance.
- May require a specialist legal or regulatory review.
- Cannot be replaced by a Governance Y-Ray result.
How should you use the result?
Set priorities
Start with the weakest dimensions and the most consequential gaps, rather than trying to fix everything at once.
Choose an improvement path
Decide whether you need a deeper assessment, updated authority and policies, or stronger oversight and performance monitoring.
Turn priorities into action
Translate priorities into actions, responsibilities, and deadlines. Reassess to compare progress with the baseline.
COSO — Corporate Governance: Guiding Principles for Board Oversight (2026)
Published March 31, 2026, in collaboration with PwC. Twelve guiding principles address board oversight, accountability, and long-term value creation.
Download reference PDFFrequently asked questions about the governance assessment
Is Governance Y-Ray only for companies?
No. It can provide an initial assessment for companies, family businesses, nonprofit organizations, and public entities, with some questions adapted to the organization’s context.
Does the result establish legal compliance?
No. The result is an initial diagnostic indicator. It does not establish compliance with any law or regulation, or replace a specialist legal or regulatory review.
Can the assessment be used before a full governance project?
Yes. It helps identify priorities before drafting new policies, charters, or authority matrices.
What does the governance assessment measure?
It covers seven dimensions: governance principles; structure and roles; leadership and oversight; authority and decision-making; policies and procedures; control and risk; and performance and monitoring.