The Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™

The Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™

Discover Your Organization’s Strategic Maturity: Baseline, Improve, and Lead Your Strategy Effort

 Are you confident in your organization’s approach to strategy management? The Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™ (SMMA) by Strategy Management Group offers a practical, fast, and insightful way to assess your organization’s strategic capabilities. Whether you’re evaluating your entire enterprise or a single department, SMMA reveals how effectively you manage strategy and where you can advance.

Why Assess Strategy Management Maturity?

• Establish a baseline and capture a clear snapshot of where your organization stands today
• Identify best practices and improvement opportunities
• Align strategy and operations for sustainable success
• Build a roadmap to become a truly strategy-focused organization

While operational excellence tools like Six Sigma focus on doing things right, strategic management asks: Are we doing the right things? The SMMA evaluates both strategic and operational performance to ensure true alignment and lasting results.

Eight Dimensions of Strategy Management Maturity

The SMMA assesses your organization across eight core dimensions:

Strategic Thinking & Planning

Develops a cohesive vision through market analysis, risk assessment, and scenario planning. Informed by SWOT, PESTLE, and stakeholder input.

Leadership & Governance

Establishes clear roles, communicates vision and values, and ensures accountability at every level.

Performance Culture & Change Management

Fosters agility, innovation, and motivation. Leadership drives change and builds a performance-oriented culture.

Alignment & Operationalizing Strategy

Integrates strategy seamlessly into daily operations, aligning objectives from the front line to the boardroom.

Process Improvement

Streamlines customer-facing and internal processes, leveraging technology and best practices for quality and efficiency.

Performance Reporting, Analyzing & Informing

Transforms data into actionable intelligence through meaningful measures and effective visualization.

Strategic Project & Portfolio Management

Aligns projects with strategy, prioritizes initiatives, and ensures robust governance and reporting.

Sustainability

Embeds strategic management into the organization’s culture, motivates teams, and ensures continuity through succession planning.

The Five Levels of Strategy Management Maturity

For each of the eight dimensions in the assessment, your score will reflect one of five levels of strategic management maturity. These levels help you understand where your organization currently stands and highlight opportunities for growth:

Level 1: Ad hoc / Reactive

Approaches are unstructured, informal, and typically implemented only in response to immediate issues.

Level 2: Emerging

Initial structures, processes, or strategies are in place, but they are inconsistent and still developing.

Level 3: Structured

Systems, processes, and strategies are regularly applied and documented, bringing increased consistency to your organization.

Level 4: Proactive

Strategic management is deeply integrated, with anticipation of challenges and a forward-looking approach driving decision-making.

Level 5: Continuous Improvement

Strategic management practices are routinely reviewed and improved, fostering a culture of ongoing learning and excellence.

You can evaluate your organization by scoring performance on each of these five levels within every dimension of strategic management maturity.

Take the Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™

Use the Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™ to answer questions across the eight key dimensions of strategy management and receive an instant set of maturity scores for your organization.

By completing the assessment, you can:

• Build a clearer understanding of the essential elements of effective strategy management.
• Gain insights into key components of strategy excellence across leadership, culture, planning, alignment, measurement, and performance management.
• See how you score in important maturity areas using a structured five‑level framework.
• Identify areas where improvement efforts may have the greatest impact.

Experience how the Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™ can support strategy and performance discussions in your organization.

Access the Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™: https://s.strategymanage.com/s/smmaweb

Ready to Apply This Across Your Organization?

Your individual results are a powerful starting point, but the greatest value comes when your leadership team and key stakeholders complete the Strategy Management Maturity Assessment™ together. Comparing perspectives across functions helps surface blind spots, confirm areas of strength, and build shared ownership for improving strategy management practices.

When you partner with Strategy Management Group, you can:

• Engage your leadership team in a structured group SMMA, ensuring diverse viewpoints from across the organization are represented.
• Receive a consolidated set of overall and dimension-level scores that highlight where there is alignment, where perceptions differ, and where to focus improvement efforts.
• Participate in a facilitated debrief where an SMG expert walks your team through your scores, explains what each level on the Strategy Management Maturity Model represents, and helps translate your results into concrete priorities and next steps.
• Use the shared findings to build commitment for change, strengthen accountability, and align projects and initiatives with your strategy.

Take the next step for your organization’s strategy management maturity: Contact us to discuss a facilitated SMMA for your organization.

Take Your Strategy to the Next Level

Your maturity score is just the start! Unlock deeper insights and clear action steps with a comprehensive strategic health check and personalized guidance from our team.

We’re here to help you reach your goals!

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