Exciting major improvements to the Digital Maturity Assessment platform have been completed and are now live as a beta version.
The beta is accessible alongside the previous version until the end of July to allow users time to get accustomed to the new look and functionality; users can alternate freely between the two versions.
The new version includes improvements throughout the entire platform, and documentation is available via the help section.
Most exciting development highlights include:
Assessment Home
This area provides an overview of all of your organisation’s assessments past and present. From here, you can select active assessments to continue work on, start new assessments or navigate to the data pages for completed assessments.
The Assessment Home page is primarily used by assessment coordinators and data users (people who have access to assessment data and results within your organisation but cannot access any live assessments on their own).
With new functionality recently introduced that means participating organisations can use the platform for multiple different assessments, the Assessment Home provides a quick, intuitive overview over assessments completed, assessments in progress and assessments available for completion.
The Digital Innovation Maturity Assessment
The SG/COSLA Digital Innovation Maturity Assessment (DIMA) is a new, self-contained assessment designed to seamlessly augment the existing Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA). It currently features a dynamic set of 37 questions covering Readiness, Capability, and Infrastructure topics that are designed to illuminate an organisation’s potential along the innovation value chain.
It evaluates the viability, impact, and potential of ideas and projects. It acts as a standardised management tool for digital innovation capability management by assessing market potential, technical feasibility, financial viability, goal alignment, and wider social, environmental, and economic impacts.
Results Dashboard
The upgraded results functionality previously showcased can now be found right within the assessment tool. Your organisation can use this portal to transform your responses into actionable insights:
- Visualisations: Access customisable tables, charts, and time-series views for both Digital Maturity and Innovation data.
- Benchmarking: Compare your progress in both areas against national averages or peer organisations within your specific health and care system.
- Auxiliary Data: Work with assessment results, collaboration data, workforce survey and national benchmarking data series at the same time.
- Report Builder: Simply send graphs and data tables you build to be added to your report, then add headlines, comments and more before printing or downloading your report.
- AI Data Assistant: Leverage our integrated natural language AI assistant to query your data across both assessments. You can get instant answers to complex questions, such as: “Which innovation maturity markers are we missing compared to our general digital maturity?” or “Show me the topics where we are lagging behind the national average.”
- View Data: View and download raw assessment data for offline processing.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is a new horizontal toolbar including all of the platform’s functionality related to completing an assessment, including:
Assessment Status
The overall status of the assessment loaded into the Assessment Workspace. Possible options are:
- “New” (The assessment has been generated but no responses have been entered)
- “In Progress” (Some responses have been entered but the assessment is not yet complete)
- “Complete” (All questions in the assessment have been answered)
- “Submitted” (The assessment has been submitted for approval)
- “Approved” (The assessment has been approved by the nominated approver)
Assessment Completion Rate: The share of answered questions out of all questions.
Evidence Library
- Allows users to upload and annotate documentary evidence in multiple formats to support their assessment or to provide guidance for later coordinators.
- Users can also update existing documents with newer versions.
Assessment Logs
- Access to system-generated log of events related to the current assessment. Logged events include first user per section, status changes and collaborations.
Generate Stakeholder Report
- Provides an AI-generated report about the assessment completion process to date, including current and historical level of engagement, core team size, other contributors, high-level results data, collaboration and evidence.
Search & Filter Sidebar
- Allows users to search the right-hand assessment navigation for specific terms, and filter the current view by those terms.
Submit Final Assessment
- Marks the assessment as complete and submits it to the nominated approver to either approve or disapprove the assessment.
- If approved, the assessment is submitted to the overall dataset; if disapproved, all sections are automatically re-opened and submitted back to the coordinator with the approver’s comments for re-evaluation.
Section
Previous Section
Navigates to the assessment section preceding the current one.
Section Status
The overall status of the current assessment section. Possible options are:
- “New” (No responses have been entered)
- “In Progress” (Some responses have been entered but the section is not yet complete)
- “Complete” (All questions in the section have been answered)
- “Submitted” (The section has been submitted for approval)
- “Approved” (The section has been approved by the nominated approver)
Next Section
Navigates to the assessment section following the current one.
Section Completion Rate
The share of answered questions out of all questions.
Show/Hide Question Guidance
- Toggles the display of context/background information within each question.
Filter Unanswered Questions Only
- Hides answered questions so that only unanswered questions are visible.
Section Notes
- Allows users to add notes for each section. Notes are visible to anyone within their organisation with access to the relevant sections. Notes persist across assessments, thus making them useful to document instructions for completion for future users.
Export Options
- Opens submenu that presents currently available options for downloading the current section (typically includes PDF and CSV).
Mark Section Complete
- Allows the user to complete work on the current section by marking it as complete and thus making it unavailable for further editing.
Collaborate
Delegate/Poll Selection
- Opens wizard used for setting up collaborations via delegations, colleague polls and anonymous polls. Delegations allow users to charge colleagues with completing a whole assessment section, while polling allows users to gather consensus among colleagues for one or more questions.
View Consensus
- Whether obtained by poll or conference, this option presents an interactive dashboard with which users can interrogate consensus information for a selected question.
Staff/Workforce Surveys
- Opens an essentials-only version of controls and options available for launching the accompanying staff survey for the current assessment (the staff survey is designed to validate some key aspects of the assessment from a workforce perspective, help track benefits from digital transformation and gauge workforce IT capabilities).
- Also offers links to the full version and to staff survey results.
Launch Assessment Conference
- Opens the current section of the current assessment in conference mode. The user launching the conference shares temporary login credentials with attendees and can now control what question is shown, allowing them to facilitate discussion as needed before taking a vote on the preferred response via the interface.
View
Show/Hide Sections
- Toggles visibility of the right-hand assessment navigation menu.
Show/Hide Labels
- Toggles visibility of text labels for the options within the Ribbon menu.
Users are provided with a feedback tool across the entire platform, which can be used to add comments and report bugs.
Contact the support team if you have any questions at all.
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