Higher Education Architecture Benchmark
Developed over 15 years and 100+ university capability uplift programmes, this experience is designed to provide objective, sector-specific insight to empower your team and inform strategic roadmaps across the sector.
“The assessment is clear and easy to deploy. The Help Hub workshop surfaced team blind spots and gave us the clarity to make a case for role and resourcing expansion.”
To date, universities have lacked reliable, comparable evidence about architecture capability, and one-size-benchmarks, plus uneven data, make comparisons misleading and can stall or misdirect decisions around architecture practices.
The Architecture Readiness Framework captures individual architect profiles, validates them in a Help Hub workshop, and synthesises team reports into a calibrated sector benchmark. Unlike generic tools, it calibrates by institution size and strategic stage, treats the team as the unit of measure, and produces anonymised sector signals under CAUDIT governance. The result is a board-ready one page diagnosis and three sequenced actions that sharpen practice investment choices, reduce delivery risk and give CIOs and chief architects a defensible, time-bounded route to capability uplift.
How it works
The model balances team narrative, self-declared data, and context parameters to create a benchmarked, decision-readiness profile, without requiring deep prep or exhaustive surveys.
“The tool gave us a domain-focused view of capability that helped position architecture as a transformation partner and point to immediate next steps.”
What the process will produce, in addition to an engaging team experience
Team profile, stakeholder heat maps, three prioritised actions, calibrated peer position, risks and quick wins, anonymised sector signals, report and briefing, secure private data.
This benchmark has been design for
Enterprise architects, chief architects, CIOs and HERM working group representatives.
Time and commitment
2-4 hours. One coordinator and 2–5 contributors if you join the pilot.
Benchmark overview
Briefing session
Watch the recorded briefing presented to the CAUDIT Architecture Working Group. Facilitated by Galen White and Jérôme Thévenon.
Register below to reserve on of the 8 pilot slots.
