Executive Technology Scorecard · Free · 12 questions

Does your leadership team govern technology — or just receive reports about it?

Most executive teams fly a multi-million dollar technology estate on a wall of green status dots. This scorecard tests whether you have the five instruments that actually govern: run cost by capability, delivery lead time, priced risk, debt trend, and returns measured after the money.

Takes about 4 minutes. Answer honestly — the score is only useful if it's true.

The scorecard

Rate each statement as it is today — not where you plan to be.

0 of 12 answered

1. We know what each business capability costs to run — not the IT budget by cost center, but what order-to-cash or customer service actually costs to operate.
2. We measure delivery lead time — elapsed time from "we decided" to "customers are using it" — for real initiatives, and leadership sees the trend.
3. Technology risk reaches leadership as priced business exposure — "billing leaves vendor support in 14 months" — not as a compliance percentage.
4. Every named risk has an owner and an explicit decision — fix, accept, or transfer. Nothing lives in the register undecided.
5. We track whether the estate is getting easier or harder to change — a debt trend re-scored quarterly and plotted over time.
6. Funded initiatives get their promised benefits re-measured 6 and 12 months after go-live — and the actuals are reported to leadership.
7. Every executive-level technology metric passes two tests: a non-technical executive understands it without translation, and a decision changes when it crosses a threshold.
8. Technology numbers keep their trend — leadership governs by the twelve-month line, not by a single month's figure.
9. The scorecard belongs to the executive team, not to IT — leadership defines the thresholds that trigger decisions.
10. Modernization gets funded on evidence — debt trend and lead-time lines make the case arithmetically, not by whoever lobbies hardest.
11. When the board asks "are we getting value from technology?", the answer is a page of trends — not a feeling, and not a wall of green dots.
12. Bad news travels upward fast — a slipping initiative or a red risk reaches leadership within days, from the numbers, not from a whistleblower.