Execution Discipline VS 02 · Approach
Change & Transformation™
How does a change become a result the organization keeps?
Five phases — READY, FOCUS, MOBILIZE, PERFORM, SUSTAIN — that carry any change, system, structural, commercial or ownership, from intent to institutionalized result.
Strategic Intent sets direction. 80/20 focuses. Kotter mobilizes. ADKAR enables. CompassOS orchestrates. ARC sustains.
The SIPOC of this discipline
Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers.
Five phases — READY, FOCUS, MOBILIZE, PERFORM, SUSTAIN — that carry any change, system, structural, commercial or ownership, from intent to institutionalized result.
SIPOC at a glance
- Suppliers
- Executive sponsor and the accountable executive
- Process, function and system owners
- Managers who will carry the change to their teams
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- Inputs
- Strategic intent and the business case
- Present-reality and readiness evidence
- Stakeholder impact and change-load picture
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- Process
- Frame — establish intent, sponsor, scope and outcomes
- Assess — read readiness, impact, capacity and risk
- Charter — confirm future state, governance and measures
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- Outputs
- An approved Transformation Charter
- Readiness, impact and adoption evidence
- A current-to-future-state design with owners
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- Customers
- Ownership, the board and the sponsor
- Managers and the teams doing the work
- Customers who feel the change downstream
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Connected by design
Change & Transformation ensures that the organization is ready, willing and able to adopt the required change.
Every Compass process is part of one integrated system. Outputs from one process become inputs to the next. The FOUNDATION–SIMPLIFY–LEAD–GROW engine establishes how the enterprise performs and grows. The execution engine converts strategic and 80/20 priorities into coordinated change and disciplined delivery. ARC continuously renews both.
Receives from
80/20 Front-to-Back · LEAD · Strategic intent
Supplies to
GROW · ARC
Change & Transformation · the five phases
Five phases. One Compass discipline.
Every change Compass architects — a two-week improvement or a three-year ERP program — travels the same five phases. Strategic Intent and 80/20 sit at the front of them, so direction and focus are settled before a single intervention is designed.
Phase 01 · READY · See reality and set direction
What must this change move, and is the enterprise honest about where it stands?
Strategic Intent sets the direction, 80/20 concentrates it on the few that matter, and the change is named in terms of the result it must move.
The methodology inside this phase
Five phases the enterprise experiences. Nine steps the work follows. One architecture at two grains — the same words on the website, in CompassOS™ and in the Workbench. Open the nine-step methodology →
Change & Transformation is a Compass discipline, not a standalone brand or methodology. The approved discipline icon is its governed identity inside the Compass brand system; FOUNDATION → SIMPLIFY → LEAD → GROW → ARC™ remains the enterprise operating architecture above it.
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