VS 02 · Compass Value Stream
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.
The SIPOC of this stream
Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers.
Five phases — READY, FOCUS, MOBILIZE, PERFORM, SUSTAIN — that carry any change, system, structural, commercial or ownership, from intent to institutionalized result.
SIPOC at a glance
- Suppliers
- Executive sponsor and the accountable executive
- Process, function and system owners
- Managers who will carry the change to their teams
- Compass architect and the change lead
- Inputs
- Strategic intent and the business case
- Present-reality and readiness evidence
- Stakeholder impact and change-load picture
- Current-state process, role and system detail
- Capacity, risk and dependency data
- Process
- Frame — establish intent, sponsor, scope and outcomes
- Assess — read readiness, impact, capacity and risk
- Charter — confirm future state, governance and measures
- Design — translate the charter into process, role and system change
- Activate — launch, enable managers, build ability, resolve barriers
- Stabilize — measure adoption, remove workarounds, refine the system
- Institutionalize — embed into governance, standard work and onboarding
- Outputs
- An approved Transformation Charter
- Readiness, impact and adoption evidence
- A current-to-future-state design with owners
- An adoption scorecard and an issue register
- Institutionalized standard work and a benefit-realization review
- Customers
- Ownership, the board and the sponsor
- Managers and the teams doing the work
- Customers who feel the change downstream
- The Program & Project Management™ stream, which runs the committed work
Connected by design
Change & Transformation ensures that the organization is ready, willing and able to adopt the required change.
Every Compass process is part of one integrated system. Outputs from one process become inputs to the next. The FOUNDATION–SIMPLIFY–LEAD–GROW engine establishes how the enterprise performs and grows. The execution engine converts strategic and 80/20 priorities into coordinated change and disciplined delivery. ARC continuously renews both.
Receives from
80/20 Front-to-Back · LEAD · Strategic intent
Supplies to
GROW · ARC
Change & Transformation™ · the high-level process
The seven stages, in order
The stream does not change with the type of change. Small work compresses the stages into short conversations; large work runs them formally. The order never moves.
Stage 01 · Frame
Establish the business case, strategic intent, sponsor, initial scope and the outcomes the change must produce.
Explore this process in depth →Turn Priority into Performance
See how Compass connects strategic focus, organizational change and disciplined execution.
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