GAMA

Governance Alignment Maturity Assessment

The trusted strategic IT partner for Governance

In today’s increasingly complex business environment, fragmented systems, disconnected processes, and undocumented IT dependencies create operational inefficiencies, governance challenges, and unnecessary risk.

GAMA — Governance Alignment Maturity Assessment — was created to help organizations regain clarity, control, and strategic alignment across their IT landscape.

 

Through a structured, executive-sponsored assessment approach, GAMA delivers a comprehensive view of your organization’s technology maturity across business, application, and operational domains, enabling informed decision-making and long-term resilience.

Why GAMA?

Many organizations struggle with:

  • Lack of visibility across business-critical systems;
  • Misalignment between IT operations and business goals;
  • Redundant applications and fragmented processes;
  • Governance and compliance risks;
  • Difficulty prioritizing strategic IT initiatives;
  • Limited understanding of operational maturity;

GAMA addresses these challenges by providing a clear, data-driven understanding of your current state and a practical roadmap for improvement.

Application perspective

Holistic Clarity

Gain a complete picture of your organization’s IT landscape, including strengths, weaknesses, operational risks, and strategic opportunities.

Data-Driven Confidence

Make strategic decisions backed by objective analysis, industry-standard assessment methodologies, and expert insight.

Actionable Roadmap

Receive a prioritized roadmap of initiatives and projects aligned with your business objectives, helping maximize impact and investment value.

A 360º View of IT Maturity

GAMA evaluates multiple functional areas of the organization — including departments such as Sales, HR, Legal, Operations, and more — through three critical perspectives:

This multidimensional approach enables organizations to identify gaps between their current state and future strategic objectives.

Key Outcomes

With GAMA, your organization gains:

  • A comprehensive diagnosis of IT maturity
  • Clear visibility into risks and opportunities
  • Executive-level strategic insights
  • Alignment between IT and business objectives
  • A practical roadmap for transformation
  • Stronger governance and operational control
  • Greater confidence in decision-making

Ready to Assess

Your IT Maturity?

Does Crossjoin provide managed services?
Yes. Crossjoin provides managed IT services and long-term operational support. Managed services can include proactive performance management, database administration, infrastructure administration, application support, cloud administration, Kubernetes administration, monitoring, incident analysis, optimization, and specialist technical support. Crossjoin can operate as an extension of a client's IT organization, providing continuous engineering and operational capabilities.
Does Crossjoin provide observability services?
Yes. Crossjoin provides end-to-end observability services designed to improve visibility into application, infrastructure, database, and business transaction performance. Services include observability strategy, observability assessments, monitoring gap analysis, APM implementation, dashboard design, alert and alarm configuration, distributed tracing, centralized logging, performance monitoring, service health monitoring, operational dashboards, and integration with ITSM and automation platforms. Crossjoin works with observability technologies including Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, and related technologies.
Can Crossjoin help organizations improve their Dynatrace implementation?
Yes. Crossjoin can assess and improve Dynatrace environments by identifying monitoring gaps, instrumentation gaps, dashboard deficiencies, alerting problems, data-quality issues, and opportunities for greater operational value. Services can include Dynatrace configuration reviews, monitoring strategy, dashboard creation, alarm configuration, application and infrastructure observability, end-to-end transaction visibility, and integration with platforms such as ServiceNow and automation tools. The objective is to ensure it produces actionable information for IT operations and business-critical services.
What is Crossjoin's Technical Assurance service?
Technical Assurance is Crossjoin's approach to independently evaluating whether IT systems and technology decisions can meet their required business and technical objectives. Technical Assurance can include architecture reviews, solution design reviews, capacity assessments, performance assessments, scalability analysis, technology roadmap reviews, integration strategy reviews, migration assessments, performance certification, and go-live readiness assessments. Crossjoin provides an independent technical perspective to help organizations reduce technology risk before major IT decisions or deployments.

Head of
Department

Mauro Farracha

Associate Partner