Build the Board Your Strategy Needs

Decisions get made without the full picture. Management is challenged less effectively, important risks can go unnoticed, and new board members are often recruited from personal networks rather than from what the organisation actually needs. Gaps tend to surface at the worst moment: during a crisis, a transaction or a change of strategy.

A board can only challenge and support management in the areas it understands. A skills assessment shows whether your board's combined knowledge matches your strategy, highlights gaps early and gives you a fact-based starting point for recruitment, succession and board development. For listed companies, the corporate governance codes in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland also encourage boards to evaluate their work and composition regularly.

A board skills matrix maps each director's knowledge and experience against the competence areas the organisation needs, so individual and collective gaps become visible. Admincontrol digitises the matrix: questionnaire answers flow into a live dashboard, so no one has to maintain it in a spreadsheet.

A board evaluation looks at how the board works: its meetings, processes, dynamics and collaboration. A skills assessment looks at what the board knows: the competence and experience its members bring. Together they give a complete picture, and Admincontrol offers both in the same board portal.

Directors answer a simple questionnaire covering six themes: business model requirements; governance; risk management, compliance and audit; management, strategy and decision-making; an experience overview; and the overall picture of the board's collective suitability. You can adapt it by adding or removing questions. Responses are collected automatically in a dashboard showing averages and spreads for each member and for the board as a whole. Automatic alerts help you complete, track and manage the process without leaving the portal.

Yes. The questionnaire gives you a solid, ready-made starting point, and you can add or remove questions so it matches your strategy, sector and the competence your board needs. A technology company might add questions on digital transformation, while a family-owned business might focus on ownership and succession.

Many boards run an assessment once a year, often alongside the annual board evaluation. It is also worth repeating when the board changes, before recruiting a new member, or when the organisation's strategy or business model shifts.

Admincontrol Competence Assessment is an add-on to Admincontrol Board Portal. If your board already uses Admincontrol, you can add it to your existing subscription. Contact us for pricing and a demo.

No. Admincontrol embeds board competence assessment directly in the board portal, so the questionnaire, analysis, reporting and documentation all run in one secure platform your board already uses.