How the Assessment Works
Our assessment is built on three complementary layers that together provide a holistic view of your organization's DPP readiness, covering digital foundations, non-technical enablers, and passport-specific capabilities.
Assessment Overview
The assessment consists of 15 questions answered on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = lowest maturity, 5 = highest maturity). These questions are organized across three layers:
Layer 1: DCMM
Questions 1-5
The Digital Capability Maturity Model measures your organization's overall digital readiness across 5 foundational dimensions. These digital capabilities are prerequisites for effective DPP implementation.
Layer 2: Contextual
Questions 6-7
The Contextual Readiness layer evaluates non-technical enablers: resource allocation and organizational DPP awareness. These factors strongly determine implementation success.
Layer 3: DPP Maturity
Questions 8-15
The DPP Maturity Model evaluates your passport-specific capabilities across 8 dimensions covering data management, system integration, access control, and supply chain engagement.
Digital Capability Maturity Model (DCMM)
The DCMM assesses your organization's foundational digital capabilities. Your responses to these 5 questions are averaged to produce the DCMM Index, a single score (1.0 to 5.0) that reflects your overall digital transformation maturity.
How the DCMM Index is Calculated
The DCMM Index is the arithmetic mean of your 5 Likert-scale responses (questions 1–5). For example, if you answer 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, your DCMM Index is (3+4+2+3+4) / 5 = 3.20. This score indicates how well-prepared your organization's digital foundations are to support DPP implementation.
Strategy
"To what extent has your organisation developed and implemented a digital strategy that is aligned with overall business objectives?"
Assesses whether your organisation has a deliberate, documented approach to digitalisation that is integrated into the corporate strategy, with governance mechanisms and regular review cycles.
Technology & Data
"To what extent does your organisation leverage integrated digital technologies and data management capabilities across its operations?"
Evaluates the maturity of technology infrastructure and data management, including how interconnected systems are, whether data flows are automated, and if data governance ensures quality and accessibility.
Processes & Operations
"To what extent are your organisation's core operational processes digitalised, standardised, and continuously improved?"
Examines how core processes (procurement, production, logistics, quality) are documented, standardised, and enhanced through digital tools and data-driven optimisation.
Organisation & Culture
"To what extent does your organisation's structure, workforce, and culture support digital transformation initiatives?"
Assesses digital competences across the workforce, dedicated digitalisation roles, leadership support, and a culture that embraces experimentation and cross-functional collaboration.
Products & Services
"To what extent does your organisation leverage digital technologies to enhance its product and service offerings?"
Evaluates usage of digital features in products (connected products, digital documentation), digital customer channels, and exploration of new digitally-enabled business models.
Contextual Readiness
This layer assesses two non-technical factors that strongly determine DPP implementation success. Even organizations with mature digital capabilities and well-designed DPP systems may fail to implement effectively if they lack adequate resources and organizational awareness. These dimensions are evaluated independently and visualized in a separate radar chart in your results.
Resource Allocation
"What level of financial and human resources has your organization allocated (or plans to allocate) specifically to DPP implementation?"
Assesses the tangible commitment of budget, staff, and external expertise to DPP activities, ranging from no allocation through R&D/public funding to dedicated programme budgets with executive sponsorship.
DPP Awareness & Knowledge
"What is the current level of awareness and understanding of Digital Product Passport requirements across your organization?"
Evaluates how broadly and deeply the DPP concept is understood, from complete unfamiliarity through isolated knowledge in a small team, to company-wide understanding with a documented strategic roadmap.
Separate Visualization
These two dimensions are displayed in a dedicated bar chart in your results, separate from the DPP maturity radar. This reflects their distinct nature as organizational enablers rather than technical capabilities. Both dimensions are plotted against a recommended target of Level 4, representing adequate readiness to support effective DPP implementation.
DPP Maturity Model
The DPP Maturity Model evaluates your passport-specific capabilities across 8 dimensions. Unlike the DCMM, these dimensions are not simply averaged. Instead, your responses are compared against target levels determined by the strategic scope you select.
Data Scope
"What is the scope of product data that your organisation has defined or plans to include in the Digital Product Passport?"
Assesses the breadth of product data identified for the DPP, ranging from mandatory regulatory attributes to lifecycle, usage, and end-of-life data enabling circular economy applications.
Data Ingestion
"How does your organisation collect and feed product data into the system(s) that will support the Digital Product Passport?"
Evaluates how data is gathered from sources (ERP, PLM, MES, suppliers) and loaded into DPP systems, ranging from manual assembly to fully automated event-driven pipelines.
Data Standardisation
"To what extent does your organisation use standardised data formats and vocabularies for the product data intended for the Digital Product Passport?"
Covers adoption of recognised standards (JSON-LD, GS1, AAS) for structuring and exchanging product data to ensure machine-readability and interoperability.
Data Storage
"How does your organisation store and manage the product data that will be part of the Digital Product Passport?"
Evaluates storage infrastructure, governance, backup, and archiving provisions, including meeting the ESPR's 10-year data retention requirement.
System Integration
"To what extent are your internal systems and external interfaces integrated to support the creation, delivery, and maintenance of the Digital Product Passport?"
Assesses how ERP, PLM, MES, and external platforms are connected to support the end-to-end DPP lifecycle, including data carrier technologies (e.g., QR codes).
Access
"To what extent can external stakeholders access the product data contained in the Digital Product Passport?"
Evaluates mechanisms for enabling tiered, role-based access for consumers, regulators, recyclers, and repair providers, balancing transparency with confidentiality.
Control & Validation
"What mechanisms does your organisation have in place to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of the data contained in the Digital Product Passport?"
Assesses data quality controls from manual spot checks to fully automated continuous monitoring with audit trails and anomaly detection.
Supply Chain Depth
"To what extent does your organisation engage its supply chain partners in the collection, sharing, and management of data for the Digital Product Passport?"
Evaluates the depth of supplier engagement, from initial Tier 1 communication to full multi-tier integration with continuous data flow across the value chain.
Gap Analysis & Scoring
The core output of the assessment is a detailed gap analysis that compares your current maturity levels against target levels for each DPP dimension.
Strategic Scopes
Before answering the DPP questions, you select a strategic scope that reflects your organization's ambition with DPP implementation. Each scope defines different target maturity levels across all 8 DPP dimensions:
Fulfill Compliance
Meet EU regulatory obligations (ESPR) with minimum viable DPP capabilities.
Reduce Carbon Footprint
Use DPP data to measure, track, and reduce environmental impact across the product lifecycle.
Optimize Processes
Leverage DPP infrastructure to streamline operations, improve supply chain efficiency, and enable data-driven decisions.
Launch New Business Models
Use DPP as a platform for circular economy business models like product-as-a-service, take-back schemes, and outcome-based pricing.
How the Gap Analysis Works
Step-by-step Process
- 1.Your current level (1–5) is recorded for each of the 8 DPP dimensions based on your Likert-scale answers.
- 2.The target level for each dimension is looked up from a rules matrix based on your selected strategic scope.
- 3.The gap is calculated as: Gap = Target Level − Current Level. A gap of 0 or below means you meet or exceed the target.
- 4.For each dimension with a positive gap, step-by-step improvement recommendations are generated for each level you need to climb (e.g., from level 2→3, then 3→4).
Business Model Recommendations
In addition to your strategic scope, you select a business model (Product-based or Service-based). This shapes contextual recommendations for each DPP dimension. For example, product-based companies receive guidance on integrating PLM/ERP data and supplier compliance, while service-based companies get advice on CRM integration, service logs, and IoT data streams.
Visual Output: Radar Chart
Your results include a radar chart that visualizes your current maturity levels against two benchmarks across all 8 DPP dimensions:
- Your Current Level: where you stand today
- Compliance Requirement: minimum levels to meet EU regulatory obligations
- Selected Scope Target: target levels based on your chosen strategic scope
The 5 Maturity Levels
Both models use a consistent 5-level scale. Each question in the assessment maps to one of these levels:
Not Started
Beginning
Developing
Intermediate
Advanced
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