Enterprise readiness
One instrument. Six perspectives.Applied to the enterprise condition you are facing.
Compass does not publish a marketplace of scores. There is one instrument — the Compass Enterprise Readiness Assessment™ — read through the six Readiness Lenses: CEO / Owner, Executive Leader, Functional Leader, People Leader, Individual Contributor, Board / Investor.
Enterprise applications
The question changes. The instrument does not.
Every reading covers the same ten architected elements — structured into twenty diagnostic groupings and the eight Readiness Areas. That is what makes one reading comparable to the next. The six Readiness Lenses change whose accountability the evidence is weighted for; they never change the evidence.
Transformation readiness
Can the organization absorb the change it has agreed to?
Leadership alignment
Is the leadership team aligned on the few things that matter?
ERP & digital readiness
Is the management system ready for the enabling system?
AI readiness
Can decisions, data and standards carry automation?
Exit & transferability
Does the business produce results without the founder?
Leadership development
Can leaders run the system the strategy requires?
Run the assessment
Establish present reality — 61 statements, one reading.
Answer once. The reading you generate here is a starting position, not a report: Compass governs the interpretation and the release of any written read.
Instrument · Compass Enterprise Readiness Assessment
Is the enterprise designed to carry what you are about to ask of it?
Sixty-one statements across the twenty diagnostic groupings of the operating system. Rate each one as the organization operates today — not as it is intended to operate. Then read the same answers through any of the six Readiness Lenses.
Readiness Lens
Select the Readiness Lens that best reflects your current role and accountability within or to the organization.
Accountable for overall enterprise performance, strategic direction, resource allocation, organizational effectiveness and value creation.
Readiness means strategy reaches the work as decisions, accountability is singular, and the leadership cadence holds without the CEO in the room.
Is the enterprise built to carry the next stage of growth?
Read by: Chief executive, owner, managing partner
Read the article for this lens — The Chief Executive Is Not Supposed to Be the Integration MechanismSteve Kopecky · 6 minute read
Switching the lens re-reads your answers — it never asks you to answer again. One assessment, every reading.
Step one · Before you rate anything
Who is rating the organization, and what is it preparing for?
None of this is scored. It sets the context Compass reads the answers in — the size and shape of the organization, the chair you sit in, and the decision ahead. The statements open once the required fields are answered.
Optional — sharpens the comparison
Context
Fields marked with an asterisk are required.
Your reading · CEO / Owner
Rate the 61 statements as the organization operates today. Your reading is generated as you answer, and you can switch lenses without answering again.
Compass architects how organizations operate and equips leaders to sustain that architecture. This is a management instrument, not legal, audit, valuation or personnel advice. Answers stay in the browser that created them until you choose to share the reading. Clients complete the assessment; Compass governs the interpretation. Twenty diagnostic groupings · 61 rated inputs · six Readiness Lenses.
The reading is banded Load-bearing (The architecture carries weight.) · Workable (Sound in structure, uneven in practice.) · Fragile (Held together by capable people.) · Not ready (The design cannot carry the intent.). The repair is architectural and is carried by one engagement: the Compass Enterprise Architecture Engagement™ — SEE, FOCUS, ARCHITECT, INSTALL, TRANSFER.
How it is governed
Clients participate. Compass governs the interpretation.
The executive team rates the same elements against the same definitions. Only a Compass Administrator generates, reviews and releases the read — never a self-service report. The assessment becomes the first stage of one permanent transformation record, not a one-off score.
Compass Navigator™ — all diagnosticsThe next step
Read the position with the people who will carry the work.
A confidential, facilitated read of your readiness position and the sequence it implies.
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