How digitally mature is your research partnership operation?
Sixteen questions, eight domains, one heatmap. Built from the same framework that diagnoses why partnerships stall at the infrastructure layer. Takes about nine minutes. Free preview of the full Digital Maturity Assessment.
Partnership performance sits on top of partnership infrastructure. You can hire the right relationship managers and sign the right agreements, and still lose months because your contract system, your data environment, or your governance structure can’t carry the load. Our research found exactly this pattern across five major U.S. public research universities: digital tools fragmented across silos, contract teams disconnected from research administration, partnership data living in spreadsheets and email threads.
Digital maturity, in partnership work, is not about chasing tools. It is about whether eight specific domains are in place: collaboration platforms, data analytics, AI and ML applications, cybersecurity and data protection, digital governance, change-management readiness, knowledge management, and digital infrastructure. The eight domains are interdependent. Cybersecurity does not mature independently of data governance. Change management does not mature without leadership commitment.
This preview scores you on all eight domains and returns a heatmap. You will see which domains are carrying you, which are bottlenecks, and one specific practice to lift the lowest-scoring domain.
Built on top of 40 years of Capability Maturity Model lineage and our primary research (Flowers and Roadman, 2024) across five major U.S. public research universities.