Five Levers Assessment
Assess how well your organisation is designed to maintain competitive advantage
Why Assess the Five Levers
Many organisations develop strong strategies yet struggle to translate those strategies into sustained results. Leaders often sense that something inside the organisation is slowing progress, but the source of that friction is difficult to identify.
The Five Levers Assessment provides a structured way to examine how strategy, leadership, culture, execution and ways of working, and strategic architecture interact inside the organisation.
Rather than evaluating strategy alone, the assessment focuses on the organisational conditions that determine whether strategy can be delivered consistently.
By examining these dimensions together, the assessment helps identify where organisational viscosity is building and where misalignment may be weakening strategy execution.
What the Assessment Examines
The assessment evaluates five interdependent dimensions of organisational design.
Strategy
The clarity of strategic intent and the alignment of priorities across the organisation.
Leadership
The consistency of leadership direction and the reinforcement of strategic objectives.
Culture
The shared norms and behaviours that shape how people interpret priorities and make decisions.
Execution and Ways of Working
The operating model, governance rhythms, and coordination mechanisms through which work is organised and delivered.
Strategic Architecture
The architectural foundations that allow organisations to evolve capabilities without losing coherence.
How the Assessment Works
The responses are analysed to identify patterns of organisational friction and areas where misalignment may be weakening the organisation’s ability to deliver strategy.
The assessment provides a practical lens for examining how the five levers interact and where improvements may be required to support maintained competitive advantage.
Who the Assessment Is For
The Five Levers Assessment is designed for leaders and practitioners involved in organisational transformation and strategy execution.
Typical users include:
Senior leadership teams
Strategy and transformation leaders
CIO and enterprise architecture organisations
Consultants and advisors working on operating model design
The assessment is particularly useful for organisations undergoing significant change or seeking to strengthen their ability to translate strategy into sustained outcomes.
Assessing Organisational Readiness
Understanding how the five levers interact inside an organisation requires more than intuition. Even experienced leadership teams can struggle to see clearly where organisational friction is building and where structural misalignment is weakening strategy execution.
The Five Levers Assessment provides a structured diagnostic instrument for examining how strategy, leadership, culture, execution and ways of working, and strategic architecture interact within the organisation.
The assessment contains 150 questions designed to evaluate each lever in detail and reveal patterns of organisational viscosity that may not be visible through informal discussion alone.
Used thoughtfully, the assessment can help leadership teams identify where the organisation is structurally prepared to deliver strategy and where deeper changes may be required.
Assessment Details
Typical completion time: 90–120 minutes
Number of questions: 150
Recommended participants: senior leaders, transformation leaders, enterprise architects, and operating model practitioners
The assessment is most valuable when completed thoughtfully and reviewed as part of a broader leadership discussion.