Direction and accountability
Board oversight, strategy, risk appetite, decision rights, ownership and governance cadence.
A01 · Establish
Technology Governance Assessment
Establish whether material technology risks, architecture and decisions are visible, owned, evidenced and governed properly.
When to begin here
You need a defensible current position.
The assessment is the right starting point when the board cannot see a coherent technology risk position, accountability or evidence is unclear, or the organisation needs a practical baseline before building a recurring governance function.
- Board reporting is fragmented, technical or incomplete.
- Risk, vendor, AI, procurement and architecture records do not connect.
- Control claims cannot be traced to reliable evidence.
- Decision rights and residual ownership are unclear.
- Priorities exist, but there is no agreed 90-day path.
What Adnet assesses
The governance system, not merely the documents.
Architecture and dependency
Current and target architecture, standards, material systems, data, integrations, lifecycle risk and technical debt.
Evidence and control
Cyber, resilience, vendor, AI, procurement, incident and operational evidence, including confidence and gaps.
Decision and follow-through
How material issues become decisions, conditions, actions, closure evidence and organisational learning.
Customer deliverables
A board-ready starting position.
- 01Board Technology Governance Report
- 02Maturity profile and risk heat map
- 03Evidence, accountability and architecture gap analysis
- 04Decisions required and a 90-day plan
- 0512-month governance and architecture roadmap
Assessment method
Evidence before assurance.
Adnet defines the context and materiality, interviews relevant owners, acquires and indexes source evidence, triangulates claims against documented and observed practice, makes uncertainty visible and subjects material conclusions to independent quality review.
The assessment is governance advice, not a statutory audit, legal opinion, technical certification or transfer of customer accountability.
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