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- COMPASS
- The house mark of Compass Performance, Inc., used for enterprise architecture and advisory services and carried by the Compass lockup.
- THE COMPASS OPERATING SYSTEM
- The integrated management system Compass architects, comprising the five disciplines and the transformation value stream.
- ARC
- The renewal engine — Analyze, Refine, Commit — and the working instruments, events and cadence carried under it.
- COMPASS NAVIGATOR
- The guided diagnostic journey through the Compass instruments.
- CTAS
- The Compass Talent Acquisition System: the architecture, operating detail and console for talent acquisition.
Product names
Named instruments and disciplines.
These are the names of Compass disciplines, diagnostics and working instruments. They are written as plain names rather than carrying a notice. Compass Performance, Inc. asserts its rights in them and in the underlying methods, materials and content.
- Foundation
- Simplify
- Lead
- Grow
- Change & Transform
- Transformation Architecture
- Succession Architecture
- Executive Partnership
- Compass Athlete
- Compass Enterprise Leadership 360
- Compass Enterprise Readiness Assessment
- Compass Transformation Charter
- Change Readiness Diagnostic
- Stakeholder Impact & Adoption Map
- Gemba Observation Sheet
- Adoption & Performance Scorecard
- Reinforcement & Institutionalization Plan
- Project Health Check
- Governance Readiness Diagnostic
- Culture Architecture Diagnostic
- Eight Laws of Organizational Architecture
- Lifecycle of a System
- Forum for Mental Fitness
Third-party marks
Instruments and models owned by others.
Compass references and, where licensed, uses instruments that remain the property of their owners. Compass claims no rights in them.
ADKAR® is a registered trademark of Prosci, Inc. Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement is the Prosci model for individual change, referenced here with attribution — not Compass intellectual property.
Positive Intelligence®, the PQ® Score, and the Saboteur model are the work of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass Performance, Inc. is an independent user of these instruments; the interpretation and coaching commentary here is Compass's own.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is the work of Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group, referenced here with attribution.
DiSC® is a registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Gleicher’s Formula for Change is commonly attributed to David Gleicher and later refined by Kathleen Dannemiller.
Other company, product and service names used on this site may be the marks of their respective owners and are used for identification only.
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