Organisational Readiness (TPDK)
A free twenty-statement readiness check for leaders across Technology, People, Decisions and Knowledge — with your weakest pillar and where to start.
Twenty statements. Four pillars.
Most change programmes fail on the pillar nobody measured. This shows which of Technology, People, Decisions or Knowledge will limit yours.
Answer for your organisation, or the part of it you lead, as it is today — not as the strategy says it should be.
What the organisational readiness check measures
This check measures how ready an organisation, or the part of it you lead, is for significant change across four pillars: Technology (tools used well and connected), People (capability, capacity and the safety to raise problems), Decisions (clear ownership and choices that stay made) and Knowledge (know-how held in shared systems rather than in individual heads). Each pillar has five statements rated from “Strongly disagree” to “Strongly agree”.
The pillars come from the TPDK framework, whose central claim is simple: transformation moves at the speed of the weakest pillar.
How to read your result
The overall percentage places you in one of four levels: Foundations first (below 40%), Ready to pilot (40–59%), Ready to transform (60–79%) and Ready to scale (80% and above). The more useful finding is your weakest pillar, shown with one first step, and your strongest pillar, which can carry change into the weaker areas.
For example, a leadership team at 65% with Decisions as the weakest pillar can probably run a transformation, but should expect it to stall at every point where ownership is unclear unless a decision map is built first. Investing in new tools would not move that team forward.
Getting a fuller picture
One leader’s view is a starting point. Ask two or three colleagues at different levels to take the check and compare. Where a director rates People at 80% and a team lead rates it at 45%, the difference is the finding. For a structured diagnostic with interviews and a sequenced plan, see work with me.
Questions people ask
What is the TPDK framework?
TPDK stands for Technology, People, Decisions and Knowledge: four pillars that together decide whether organisational change sticks. The framework holds that change moves at the speed of the weakest pillar, so readiness work starts by finding and strengthening that constraint.
Who should take the organisational readiness check?
Anyone who leads a team, a function or a change programme. It works best when several people at different levels take it for the same organisation, because the differences between their answers show where the official picture and day-to-day reality diverge.
Is this an organisational audit?
No. It is a leader’s self-assessment for reflection and discussion. It reflects one person’s view of how things work today. A proper diagnostic adds interviews, a cross-level survey and evidence from how decisions and knowledge actually flow, which is where the most useful findings usually come from.