Executive diagnostic · 5 minutes

Where is your Human Moat strong—and what is holding performance back?

Assess the four capabilities that turn technology, talent and strategy into sustained performance. Use your responses as a starting point for a conversation about your organization’s strengths, constraints and priorities.

How to respond

Rate what is consistently true today.

Use the full scale. Rate the organization you actually experience—not the policies, values or intentions written down. If performance varies significantly between teams, choose the lower score. Select “Not sure / not enough visibility” where you cannot confidently assess the statement.

Rarely true

Occasionally true

Inconsistently true

Usually true

Consistently true

The Human Moat Diagnostic

Assess the four capabilities.

Complete eight ratings and add brief business context to help identify where execution is working and where it gets stuck.

Your name*

Work email*

Company*

Role*

Organization size*

Primary business priority*

Shared Intelligence

People understand the strategy, economics and customer realities behind their work, and share the knowledge needed to act intelligently together.

Shared Intelligence · People understand the financial measures and strategic trade-offs relevant to their work.*

Shared Intelligence · Critical knowledge and operating context move across teams rather than remaining trapped in individuals or functions.*

Distributed Judgment

People closest to the work have the context, authority and guardrails to make sound decisions.

Distributed Judgment · Decisions are made close to the work by people with the necessary context and authority.*

Distributed Judgment · Leaders establish clear decision rights without becoming routine approval bottlenecks.*

Collective Commitment

People connect their contributions to business priorities and work across boundaries to achieve shared outcomes.

Collective Commitment · People understand how their work contributes to business results, including the financial outcomes they can influence.*

Collective Commitment · Teams resolve cross-functional tensions in service of shared outcomes.*

Adaptive Execution

Teams translate strategy and technology into changed working practices, learn from results and adjust.

Adaptive Execution · Teams use feedback and operating results to adjust plans and ways of working.*

Adaptive Execution · Strategic initiatives and technology investments translate into changed operating behaviour and measurable outcomes.*

Which financial measure is most relevant to this priority? (Optional)

What business outcome is currently being constrained by the organization’s human system?*

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