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Find relevant readingReading selected for deal teams, operating partners and portfolio CEOs.
7 articles
Micromanufacturing and the Supply Chain Reset
Tariffs, freight volatility and concentration risk have changed the arithmetic of scale. Micromanufacturing — small, near-demand, digitally governed…
Value Streams & Work DesignSlack as the Compass Engagement Layer
Compass designs advisory engagements as an operating layer, not a meeting series. Slack is the architecture that holds the work together between sessions.
Value 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.
Value Streams & Work DesignEffort Cannot Solve a Design Problem
Pressure produces a short improvement, then the system pulls the result back to where the architecture says it belongs.
Value Streams & Work DesignThe Operations Lens: Designed, Not Held Together
Where the process is undefined, capable people carry it. The result looks like variable performance and is read as a discipline problem.
Value Streams & Work DesignThe ERP Lens: Configure a Process Worth Keeping
Systems enable the management system; they never replace it. Configuring before the process is designed automates the current mess at scale.
Value Streams & Work DesignWhen Growth Outruns the Organization
How a leadership team can follow one order front to back—from sales requirements to field service—and build the cross-functional operating discipline growth requires.
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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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