Output
SMR® – Systemic Maturity Report
A written report that captures your SMS® level, key systemic patterns, and recommended focus areas, written for boards and executives, not just technical teams.
SMS® – Systemic Maturity Scale
Read your organization
through one systemic maturity scale.
SMS® – Systemic Maturity Scale is the official diagnostic scale derived from STT®. It reads how your organization thinks, structures, and executes across four systemic maturity levels, then converts that reading into a practical SMR® report and SEM® execution levers.
Unlike generic “maturity models”, SMS® is not a checklist of good practices. It is a
thinking-based scale: it measures the depth and coherence of the mental models driving your strategy,
governance, risk, operations, and people decisions.
Built for boards, executives, and transformation leaders who need a clear, shared view of systemic maturity, not scattered evaluations.
The four SMS® levels
SMS® does not try to compress the world into 20+ confusing grades. It focuses on four systemic levels that leaders can actually recognize and work with:
SMS® – Systemic Maturity Scale (Levels 1–4)
Level 1
Fragmented / incident–driven
Fragmented / incident–driven
Level 2
Procedural / order–seeking
Procedural / order–seeking
Level 3
Systemic integration
Systemic integration
Level 4
Transformational foresight
Transformational foresight
What SMS® really measures
From “how many tools you use” to “how your system thinks and behaves”.
SMS® is not interested in how many dashboards, policies, or frameworks you have. It focuses on the quality of thinking and systemic behavior behind them. The assessment reads patterns across four dimensions:
Strategic thinking: how leaders frame reality, uncertainty, and long-term choices.
Structures & governance: how responsibilities, committees, and processes are designed to carry systemic load.
Execution patterns: how decisions travel into projects, initiatives, and day-to-day operations.
Learning & renewal: how the organization interprets signals, failures, and success – and what it does with them.
The result is not a generic “score”, but a clear reading of your SMS® level with practical implications:
What your current level enables – and what it systematically blocks.
Which transformations are realistic at this level, and which would be premature or risky.
Where to focus first if you want to move to the next SMS® level without burning people or credibility.
Derived from STT®
Feeds directly into SMR® & SEM®
Built for systemic governance
Process
How the SMS® assessment works in practice.
The assessment is designed to respect your time while going deep enough to be useful. It can be delivered fully online, hybrid, or anchored around an in-person executive workshop.
Step 1
Clarifying scope: whole organization, a specific sector, or a key portfolio (e.g., transformation, HR, governance).
Step 2
Gathering inputs: selected documents, interviews, and survey items aligned with STT® lenses and SMS® levels.
Step 3
Systemic reading: mapping patterns across thinking, structures, execution, and learning using STA®.
Step 4
Drafting the SMR® – a Systemic Maturity Report summarizing your SMS® level, key patterns, and systemic risks.
Step 5
Defining SEM® execution levers: a small set of disciplined, systemic moves that actually fit your current level.
Execution
SEM® – execution levers
A set of concrete execution levers derived from SEM® to turn awareness into disciplined follow-through, respecting your constraints and reality.
Integration
Link to other services
SMS® can anchor other engagements such as Systemic Maturity Assessment, STT® Assessment, or subscription-based systemic support.
Who is this for?
Leaders who need a shared maturity language, not another slide deck.
SMS® is designed for leadership teams who are serious about systemic transformation and want a scale that can actually guide priorities:
Boards and executive teams overseeing national, sectoral, or institutional programs.
Strategy, transformation, governance, and risk leaders coordinating complex portfolios.
HR and OD leaders who want development plans aligned with real systemic maturity, not generic competencies.
Typical use cases
Where SMS® makes a visible difference.
Before launching major transformation programs or restructuring initiatives.
When multiple evaluations exist but there is no coherent view of the organization’s maturity.
When leadership senses that “the tools are there, but the level of thinking is not aligned”.
As a baseline and anchor for long-term systemic development plans.
Next step
Use SMS® as the reference scale for your systemic maturity.
The SMS® assessment is delivered as a tailored engagement for each organization. Pricing and structure depend on scope, number of entities involved, and depth of analysis required. The first step is a short conversation to clarify what you need the scale to do for you.