Value Streams

Three streams carry the architecture into the work.

The core architecture elements describe how the enterprise is built. These three value streams describe how it runs: strategy to daily execution, change to institutionalized result, and committed work from selection to close.

One Compass System

The three streams are the execution engine of one architecture.

One integrated system connects enterprise readiness, strategic focus, leadership, growth and execution. Outputs from one process become inputs to the next, while ARC continuously renews the system through performance feedback, learning and improvement.

Primary Compass engine

ARC™ surrounds and renews the engine

01FOUNDATION™Readiness, alignment, governance and decision clarity.
02SIMPLIFY™Focused priorities and differentiated resource choices.
03LEAD™Direction, ownership, measures and mobilized leadership.
04GROW™Scalable performance, stronger capability and new learning.
ARC™Continuous renewal — performance feedback, learning and continuous improvement returning to FOUNDATION and SIMPLIFY.

Execution engine

Where to focusFront to Back 80/20™Determines where action will create the greatest value.Adoption pathwayChange & Transformation™Prepares the organization and people to adopt the change.Delivery pathwayProgram & Project Management™Charters, structures, sequences and controls the work.
When
Organizational alignment, behavior, capability or adoption must change
Route to
Change & Transformation
When
Defined initiatives, deliverables, timing, resources and governance are required
Route to
Program & Project Management
When
Implementation and adoption must be managed together
Route to
Both pathways, run as one record

Completed execution produces business results, learning and performance data that flow back through ARC into the primary Compass engine.

VS 01

Front to Back 80/20™

Does strategic intent survive the journey to the daily work?

One line of sight from strategic intent through market, customer, product and every internal function — held in place by daily 80/20 management.

Summary, SIPOC and detail

VS 02

Change & Transformation™

How does a change become a result the organization keeps?

Five phases — READY, FOCUS, MOBILIZE, PERFORM, SUSTAIN — that carry any change, system, structural, commercial or ownership, from intent to institutionalized result.

Summary, SIPOC and detail

VS 03

Program & Project Management™

Does committed work actually finish, in the right order?

One descent from strategy to the daily stand-up, where each altitude owns one decision, one cadence and one artifact the altitude below inherits.

Summary, SIPOC and detail

The next step

Which stream is failing in your enterprise?

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