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Which competitive sourcing maturity level is your team at?

Three questions at a time, and it stops as soon as you do not clear a level — so most people answer between three and twelve. No sign-up, and nothing you answer leaves your browser. You get your level and the one constraint holding you there.

 

Why there is no benchmark here

Most maturity assessments end by telling you where you sit against your peers. We could print a percentile too, and you would be right not to believe it — there is no response base behind it. Publishing one would make every other statement in this assessment worth less.

What the questions can do without guessing is place you against a description. Each is answerable from evidence rather than opinion: not are we disciplined about sourcing, but could a second person audit an award six months later without asking the buyer. Where the answer is uncomfortable, that is the finding.

The five stages follow the standard capability-maturity progression used across many disciplines. That is deliberate: it is widely understood, it is nobody's proprietary framework, and it places procurement on a scale a CFO already recognises.

Frequently asked

Does this tell me how I compare to other companies?
No, and deliberately so. A percentile would need a response base that does not exist yet, and inventing one would make everything else here less trustworthy. You get your level and the one constraint holding you there - not a claim about anybody else.
How is my level worked out?
It is a gate, not a score. You are at the highest level whose questions you could all answer yes to, and the assessment stops at the first block you do not clear. Nothing is weighted, because passing a later question while failing an earlier one is not meaningful - you cannot measure coverage you have not standardised.
How long does it take?
Three questions at a time, and it stops as soon as you do not clear a block, so most people answer between three and twelve. There is no form, no email address and nothing is sent anywhere - the whole thing runs in your browser.
Where do the questions come from?
They are the same diagnostics printed in The Competitive Sourcing Maturity Model guide, in the same wording, so the tool and the guide cannot describe a level differently. Each one is answerable from evidence rather than from opinion.

The full model, level by level.

All five levels in detail, the constraint that holds a team at each one, and what the step up actually involves.

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