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MINCE – A Framework for Organizational Maturity

Assessment of Organizational Maturity is becoming a very popular technique. This site explains how most organizations need to achieve and maintain the competitive ability to meet and take advantage of change. Skills, technical ability, processes all must be in place to achieve competitive advantage. Many companies aspire to 'maturity' in these areas; others use well documented and successful frameworks and approaches in specific areas of the organization.

However it is clear that 'maturity' and all the benefits it delivers cannot be limited to just one department in an organization or just one discipline. MINCE, a framework for achieving organizational maturity, takes the approach that maturity is in effect the sum total of a corporation expressed in terms of the people within it and how they deliver – regardless of whether requirement in HR, technical, Customer Service or Governance.

MINCE therefore descibes an overall approach to maturity: the advantage is that organizations can finally identify and assess their ability to deliver change in terms of their overall ability – in other words how their customers see it.

MINCE identifies six 'pillars' of maturity:

1. People;
2. Methods and Techniques;
3. Customer;
4. Realization;
5. Knowledge;
6. Supporting Services.

These pillars can be assessed across departments and across organizations using the following criteria:

1. Leadership;
2. Staff;
3. Policy;
4. Means;
5. Instructions.

Depending on the nature of the business, organizations can decide how important these pillars are and how much to invest in order to improve the maturity scores.