Where can I find the answers for the self assessment questions?
When you look through the Self Assessment Toolkits, you will notice that every document in the toolkit is exclusively based around questions.
However, you will also notice that we don’t give you the answers to the questions and that there are no templates or blueprints as part of the toolkit.
Why is that?
Questions are important - they help you to uncover assumptions in the organisation as well as gaps in knowledge and process breaks.
The questions we ask are important. We need to think about asking the right questions - and not just ask the most obvious questions. It is often the left field questions that uncover what is really going on in the organisation.
The answers are up to you - the way we ask the questions in the self assessment toolkit is for you to identify if there is indeed a clearly defined answer to the question.
Another word for clearly defined is: UNAMBIGUOUS. The answer is precise, exact and there is no question about what the answer to the question is.
When you are able to say that you have a clearly defined answer to the question, you most likely have the evidence to back that up. This evidence looks differently in each organisation and when you say that there are clearly defined answers - you don’t need us to give you a ‘vanilla’ answer. You have the answer that is customised and adapted to your organisation and that is way more valuable than any generic ‘one size fits all’ answer we could have com up with.
As an example - here are some of the questions from the Data Governance Toolkit, specific for the topic of governance:
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