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Choose the 80 Before You Design the Enterprise
Front-to-Back 80/20 is not cost reduction. It is the first strategic design decision — naming the vital few markets, customers, products and channels…
Selected for your perspectiveTarget Operating ModelClean Sheet Organization Design: The Process
A clean sheet design starts from the strategy and the vital few opportunities, not from the current org chart. This is the process, the ownership and the…
Selected for your perspectiveStrategic Intent & FocusGlobal Growth Dynamics: Revenue Growth vs. the Vital Few
The original Global Growth Dynamics build, recreated: how chasing revenue turns into margin loss, and how quads and quartiles on market, customer and…
Selected for your perspectiveChange & ExecutionPreserve the Traction. Architect the Constraint.
When an execution system is producing results, replacing it is waste. The work is to find the constraint the current design keeps recreating — and…
Selected for your perspectiveStrategic Intent & FocusThe Next Acquisition Is Not the Growth Strategy
Acquisitions buy revenue, capacity and geography. Only a human-capital operating system converts them into organizational capacity — and into EBITDA.
Selected for your perspectiveValue Streams & Work DesignHow Complexity Quietly Consumes Margin
No one approves complexity. It accumulates one reasonable decision at a time, and it is paid for in margin, speed, and executive attention.
Selected for your perspectiveStrategic Intent & FocusThe Exit Lens: Value That Transfers Without the Owner
Transferable value is documented processes, governed data, named successors and results that hold when the founder is not in the room.
Selected for your perspectiveChange & ExecutionThe Transformation Lens: Capacity to Absorb Change
Change fails at the point of absorption far more often than at the point of design. Capacity, honesty about recent change, and reinforcement decide the…
Selected for your perspectiveChange & ExecutionThe Program Lens: Intake, Charter, Capacity, Honesty
Portfolios fail at intake far more often than in delivery. Unranked work consumes the capacity that strategy was supposed to direct.
Selected for your perspectiveTarget Operating ModelCapacity Is an Enterprise Decision, Not a Hiring Plan
Step-change growth rarely fails on effort. It fails when commercial demand, capacity, supply chain, workforce, automation and capital are decided…
Selected for your perspectiveAccountability & CapabilityThe Gardener's Choice — A Compass Fable
Two gardeners, the same soil, sun, water and hours. One plants everything. One chooses the vital few. Which garden yields the most — and what it teaches…
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The Compass Podcast
15 entries
- The Compass Podcast — Simplify, Lead & Grow
- Chad Ritterbusch, TRG Marketing
- Kristina George, Next Step Insurance
- Ken Vandervest, Lisbon Creek Systems
- Max Meinerz, Ascendent Health Partners
- Mike Domitrz, The Center for Respect
- Dwayne Marks, Black Orchid Research
- Megan Doberstein, Ignite MedTech
- Tim Gerritsen, Lost Boys Interactive
- Jen Swendseid, Heart&Core Sports and Medical
- Bryan Jorgensen, Tanduo Technical Partners
- Aymen Azim, Technova Industries
- Matt Guse, MRS Machining
- David Twite, MacDonald & Owen Lumber
- Mandi Lococo, Gramoll & Associates (American Family Insurance)
Executive Forums
10 resources
- Executive Forums — Five Rooms, One Community
- The Compass CEO Roundtable
- The Compass CHRO & People Leader Forum
- The Mental Fitness Lab
- How Forum Membership Works — Purpose, Process, Day One
- Owner, CEO & President Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- COO & Operations Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- CFO & Enterprise Finance Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- CHRO & People Executive Forum | Compass Executive Forums
- Growth, Commercial & Technology Forum | Compass Executive Forums
Mental Fitness & Growth Lab
4 resources
Compass Architecture
12 resources
- How Compass Works — The Core Architecture, One Page Each
- FOUNDATION™: Purpose, Values, Present Reality
- SIMPLIFY™: Concentrate Value, Remove Complexity
- LEAD™: Strategy, Cadence, Accountability
- GROW™: Design the Next Curve of Value
- ARC™: Assess, Refine, Commit
- Our Approach — Compass Enterprise Architecture
- The Architecture in Depth — Compass Enterprise Architecture
- The Compass Enterprise Architecture™ — One Operating Model
- Where the Compass method comes from · Methodology lineage
- Front to Back 80/20™ | Compass Value Stream
- Program & Project Management™ | Compass Value Stream
Offerings & ways to engage
11 resources
- Begin a Conversation
- How We Work — Engaging Compass Performance
- Offerings — How to Work with Compass
- Begin a Conversation — Two Paths In
- Exit Planning
- Executive & Leadership Advisory
- Workforce Architecture
- Operating Cadence Install — Plan, Measures, Actions, Meetings
- Delivery Architecture — Strategy to Daily Work
- Daily Practice Sheets
- Begin a Conversation
Who Compass works with
7 resources
Returns on the work
6 resources
- Confidence — What an installed architecture returns
- Freedom — What an installed architecture returns
- Scalability — What an installed architecture returns
- Succession — What an installed architecture returns
- Enterprise value — What an installed architecture returns
- Enduring leadership — What an installed architecture returns
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