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Clean 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…
Target Operating ModelYesterday's Architecture, Tomorrow's Ceiling
The structure that carried a business to its current size is usually the constraint on its next stage. That is a design problem, not a people problem.
Target Operating ModelWhat Is Enterprise Business Architecture?
Enterprise business architecture is the deliberate design of how an organization decides, aligns, and executes. It sets the ceiling on performance long…
Target Operating ModelThe Ten Elements of an Enterprise Architecture
Strategic intent, simplification, leadership, governance, planning, cadence, decision rights, performance, enabling systems, and renewal. Designed…
Target Operating ModelArchitecture vs. Improvement
Improvement makes the current system perform closer to its limit. Architecture changes the limit. Confusing the two is the most expensive mistake in the…
Target Operating ModelYour Design Is Producing Your Results
Decision rights, cadence, reporting lines, incentives and leadership habits are not background. Together they are the machine producing the number on the…
Target Operating ModelArchitecture Is Designed, Not Discovered
The work is concrete: name the few outcomes that matter, place each decision where it is properly made, remove the complexity consuming margin, and…
Target Operating ModelThe AI Lens: Designed Process, Governed Data
AI moves a measure inside a process. Where the process is undesigned and the data ungoverned, there is nothing for it to move.
Target 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…
Target Operating ModelDon't Scale the Old Factory
2x, 3x or 5x growth rarely requires a larger version of today's factory. It requires a deliberate future-work design decision.
Target Operating ModelFrom Frameworks to Playbooks — HR Architecture
A use case for a configurable operating-architecture platform: from HR value streams and the global operating model to governed, board-quality playbooks.
Target Operating ModelIntegrated HR Architecture Summary
An integrated Compass Performance + CompassOS use case: transformation architecture, HR value streams, execution disciplines, CompassOS and playbooks in…
Target Operating ModelOne Operating System. One Core Architecture.
The Compass core architecture, its renewal engine and three execution disciplines in one operating system — connecting enterprise design to adopted…
Target Operating ModelWhy Strategy, People, and Operations Cannot Be Managed as Separate Systems
Architecture determines performance: strategy, people, and operations are one system, and the interfaces between them are where results are won or lost.
Target Operating ModelYou Left the Corporate World to Make a Difference. Who’s Building Your Business?
For new and established independent advisors and coaches: how to build a repeatable practice—relationships and champions, opportunity conversion and engagement delivery—where the client remains the hero.
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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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