The executive path
The Executive Path
Four stops, in order. Ten minutes if you read the headings, an hour if you follow the sequence. Every stop leads somewhere.
How Compass works
We architect what works. We build what lasts.
The engagement, the delivery model and the standard Compass holds itself to — read this first if you want to know what working with Compass actually looks like.
See how we workThe architecture
Compass Enterprise Architecture™
FOUNDATION™ · SIMPLIFY™ · LEAD™ · GROW™, with ARC™ — Analyze · Refine · Commit — as the renewal engine. One governing architecture, not a set of programs.
Read the architectureThe argument
Five essays, read in order
The Architecture Sequence is the shortest path to what Compass believes and why. Each essay carries its place in the argument.
Open InsightsLeadership readiness
Mental Fitness and the assessments
Mental Fitness is a FOUNDATION leadership-readiness capability. The assessments read your current reality — enterprise, culture and leadership — with evidence rather than opinion.
See Mental Fitness
The Architecture Sequence
Five essays, read in order.
- The Architecture That Created Today's Success Rarely Produces Tomorrow's ResultsWhy the design that produced today's results becomes the constraint.
- Choose the 80 Before You Design the Enterprise: Building a Front-to-Back Strategy on the Vital FewThe first design decision: choose the vital few and connect them front to back.
- Clean Sheet Organization Design: Building the Structure the Strategy RequiresDesigning the structure the stated strategy requires.
- The Next Acquisition Is Not the Growth Strategy: Talent Architecture as the Missing Operating System in Private Equity–Backed Industrial GrowthAcquisition as one mechanism inside the architecture, not the strategy itself.
- Don't Replace What Works: Architect the ConstraintWhere an execution system ends and the enterprise architecture begins.
The next step
Not sure where to begin?
Understand your current reality first, or begin a conversation about the constraint.
Not sure where to start?
Three questions, and we point you to the right instrument.
Under a minute. From this page, most leaders begin with The organization.