Gate 01 · Strategic Planning Architecture™
SEE — Current state
Where do the money, the risk and the time actually sit today?
Pass criteria
- Revenue, margin and labor concentration are written down from the accounts, not from memory.
- The enterprise readiness read is complete and dated.
- The organization's position on the business lifecycle is named.
Evidence required
- Front to Back 80/20™ concentration read (customers, products, processes, people).
- Compass Enterprise Readiness Assessment™ across the six Readiness Lenses.
- Trailing twelve months of P&L by line, plus working-capital position.
Owner: Chief executive, with the Compass Architect
The tell
The current state is described in adjectives — 'strong', 'tight', 'challenging' — with no arithmetic behind it.
The counter
No imperative is written until the concentration read exists in numbers.
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