The technology, processes and skills that today’s companies need are evolving as quickly as the business landscape. Organizations must be all at once more informed, more secure, more collaborative and more purpose driven.

In order to fully meet these rising standards, business leaders must have a grasp of all the workflows, insights, policies, stakeholders and moving parts that make up an organization and its activities. Without it, leaders may   fail to make the right decisions at critical times and can expose their organizations to extremely costly governance deficits and operational risks.

The following checklist, organized into four core competencies of modern governance, will help you identify potential governance deficits and provide recommendations to solve them.