Leadership Transition
You inherited a transformation mid-flight. What has it changed?
A short window, and a program that reports its activity
A new CEO, CFO or transformation leader has a few months to decide what to keep, cut or reshape. The program hands over a status pack. It describes what has been delivered and spent. It does not describe what has changed in how the business runs, which is the only thing the decision should rest on.
Three things to know before you decide
Each of these can be read in the operating model and in the evidence behind the program’s claims.
One way to read what you inherited
GSDPI™ reads each flow the transformation touches through five functions, so a new leader and their team can see how the work runs today, where the program changed it, and where it did not.
Reading a transformation this way is taught in the Foundation Course, which a new leadership team can take together. Applying it to the transformation you inherited is the Practitioner Intensive.
Learn it, then apply it to your own transformation.
They were stated once, then read differently by each team. Finding where that happened is faster than rewriting the strategy.
Why doesn’t the program’s reporting answer the question?
Reporting describes activity: milestones, spend, status. It was not built to show whether the flows of work run differently than they did before.
Where does ZBTOS teach this?
The Foundation Course gives a leadership team one way to read a transformation against the operating model. The Practitioner Intensive applies it to the transformation you inherited.
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