PartnerScope® Organizational ReadinessFree
Is your organization ready for partnerships?
An honest look at where your organization stands before you begin the partnership journey. Starting without being ready is like setting out on a hike with no map or gear, and it usually ends the same way. The assessment covers your strategy, people, decision-making, and operations, then shows what to put in place first. One person answers it in about 10 minutes.
Free with a PartnerScope® account. Take it as often as you like.
Sample report
Framework 1.0Foundation Needed
16-40
Building
41-64
Ready
65-80
Fix this first
Can you actually support a partner and absorb the extra work? Consider training, onboarding, a contact who answers questions, engineering or legal time, and who handles the customer when something breaks.
How it works
Find the gaps in your own house first.
Pick your partnership types
Start with the types of partnerships you want, from referral to co-building. A few later questions count more or less depending on your answer, so the result fits your plans.
Answer for your company as it is today
Sixteen questions across four themes, about 10 minutes. Every answer is a 1, 3, or 5, with a plain description of what each means.
See where you stand and what to fix
What's in place and what's missing in each theme, with the next steps that matter most from the Evolve Growth Partners library. An overall rating sums it up. Download it as a PDF to share.
Four themes
What it covers
01
Strategy and Fit
4 questions
- The partnership types you want
- A written goal
- Your ideal partner
- What you offer and expect
02
People and Ownership
3 questions
- An active executive sponsor
- One clear owner
- Sales teams that work with partners
03
Decisions and Communication
4 questions
- A review before anything goes live
- Core, contested, and out of scope
- How decisions reach the company
- The effect on existing partners
04
Operations and Data
5 questions
- Agreement templates
- Capacity to support partners
- Tracking partner revenue
- Rules for sharing data
- Reviews and clean exits
More from PartnerScope®
When you're ready for the next step.
Readiness is about your organization. Each of these looks at something else, with the same PartnerScope® framework behind it.
Partnership Assessment
Does this partnership have what it needs to succeed?
Check that a specific partnership has the right things defined and in place: goals, economics, enablement, and management. You and your partner each score it in private, then see the gaps, every STOP flag, and a shared action plan.
Data Stewardship
Is your company ready to share data with third parties?
For companies that get asked to send data, their own or a client's. See whether the ownership, rules, and controls are in place before data leaves, and what to fix first.
See inside
What your report looks like.
Where you stand
Your total and what it means, in plain words.
Strong spots and weak spots
Each theme scored on its own, so you can see what to work on first.
Specific next steps
Practical steps from the PartnerScope® library, starting with your lowest-scoring questions.
Who's behind it
Shaped by years of building partner ecosystems.
PartnerScope® comes from Evolve Growth Partners, a firm that helps companies build partner ecosystems that succeed and pay off. Its founder, Brett Jones, built NielsenIQ's partner network from the ground up into what became the industry's largest open ecosystem for CPG retailers and manufacturers.
Brett Jones
Founder and CEO, Evolve Growth Partners
- years building revenue in data, analytics, and technology
- 20+
- years building revenue in data, analytics, and technology
- growth in NielsenIQ's partner roster over five years
- 15x
- growth in NielsenIQ's partner roster over five years
- growth in partner revenue over the same five years
- 7x
- growth in partner revenue over the same five years