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| 1. Senior executive leadership: Technology as top priority: technology is appreciated and managed as a key factor in the overall buisness strategy. There is a chief technology officer, whose judgment has a considerable influence in the descion making process. The management style is consistent with the maturity of the enterprise. |
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| 2. Involvement and participation: Managers are active members of the technology culture within the corporation. They have close relationship with the chief technology officer/Engineering Manager and the technology gatekeepers. |
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| 3. Technology strategy: Corporate strategy: There exists a corporate strategy aimed to achieve the corporation`s vision. One aspect of this strategy is aimed toward the technologies within the corporation. The technology strategy is a significant contributor to the corporate strategy. |
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| 4. Technology strategy: Goals: There are specific goals directed at establishing technology standards and positioning the company as the industry leader |
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| 5. Technology strategy: Deployment: the technical strategy is effectively communicated and deployed throughout all levels in the organization. |
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| 6. Organization structure: The organization has a structure that enables agility. It facilitates the descion making process. Technology is explicitly represented by a chief officer, whose judgment influences the decision making process. There exists evidence of organizational structure around technologies, not around products. |
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| 7. Organization structure: Teamwork: The roles and jobs are designed to facilitate teamwork. The teams are self-managed, with only occasional reviews from manager. the teams can establish their own objectives and measures to support the overall technology strategy. |
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| 8. Technology culture advancement: Culture: There are values within the corporation that highlight the importance of technology as a strategic factor. The corporate culture supports and encourages technology. |
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| 9. Technology organization: The organization is skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. The organization has established methods for systematic problem solving, experimentation with new approaches, learning from its own experiences (both successes and failures) and most successful practices of others, and transferring knowledge quickly and efficently throughout the organization. Lessons are documented and distributed throughout the organization |
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| 10. Technology culture: Communication: There are no organizational barriers threatening the communication top-down, bottom-up, and horizontally. Ideas and concerns can be freely expressed. Information is made available to whoever might need it. the organizational structure is not a barrier when trying to communicate with top management levels. |
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