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Model requirement 6.5
Governance maturity evaluation
What ISO 37004:2023 asks at 6.5, in our own words, and how it reads inside a controlled group. The draft's public contents heading for it is 6.5 Governance maturity evaluation.
What the model asks
In applying the model the user should establish the governance conditions and principles, the dimensions, that comprise the scope of the evaluation; evaluate the level of maturity for each dimension against the aspects and aggregate the results where needed; and determine the appropriate level for each dimension and aspect and set improvement targets where necessary; Figure 9 gives an evaluation template.
What it means when one board controls another
The evaluation is complete only when it covers the conditions and the principles, rates each dimension on the three aspects, decides appropriateness and sets targets. In a group, add the boundary map and the two-level ratings; without them the evaluation describes the controller, not the group.
Evidence an evaluator asks for
A maturity rating is a claim about how the group governs. The evidence is what proves it operated. Keep both, and keep them together.
- Evaluation: Completed evaluation on the template: scope, levels per dimension and aspect, appropriate levels, targets
Where evaluations commonly find gaps
- Evaluation stopping at levels without appropriateness or targets
How this requirement enters the rating
This unit belongs to the evaluation and improvement sequence. Record the decision it produces, the owner and the date, and keep it with the ratings it explains.
It carries 1 evidence item and 1 common gap in the model. One item is enough only if it is the artefact that proves the practice operated, not a policy that says it should. The group application on this page is ours; the requirement and evidence are the model's, stated in our own words.
Requirements that sit beside it
Source for this page
- ISO 37004:2023, Governance of organizations, Governance maturity model, Guidance. The published text of the organizational governance maturity model, which the draft applies to controlled groups. Supplies the three aspects, the measurement framework, the six-point scale, the dimensions and the 35 model requirements stated on this site.
- ISO/DIS 37014 official record. The designation, title, edition, committee, ICS, stage, stage date, page count, price and abstract. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ISO/DIS 37014 free OBP preview. The foreword, introduction, scope, normative references, terms and definitions and the full table of contents, which ISO publishes for free. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
Retrieved 2026-10-21. The requirement above is our statement of the clause in our own words; the official text is linked so you can check it.
Note on the draft: The requirement, evidence and gaps on this page are read from ISO 37004:2023, which the draft states it builds on. The draft's own clause body is not public, so this page does not state it. The clause reference at the top is the draft's public contents heading that this requirement sits under.
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