The models your team will read and apply.
Each model has its own page. Below: where the methods your enterprise already uses fit in a transformation, and where they stop.
Model
GSDPI™
Read how the work actually runs.
Process
BRACE™ for Transformation
Work the change through.
Operating system
ZBTOS™
Run it as one operating system.
How the disciplines fit together
Five criteria every transformation must satisfy. What the methods you already use contribute.
Each discipline below is built for a purpose and does it well. Zero-Based Transformation™ is designed to integrate all five Governing Criteria. Read across a row to see what a discipline governs, what it contributes, and what ZBTOS™ connects it to.
MANDATEIs the mandate coherent and authorized?REQUIREMENTSIs it explicit what must become true?INTEGRATIONCan it hold as one operating model?ENABLEMENTCan it be made operational?EVIDENCEWhat would permit the claim?
Method or discipline
Primarily governs
Contribution to transformation
What ZBTOS™ connects
Zero-Based Transformation™
The Governing Criteria · GSDPI™ · BRACE™ · ZBTOS™
Whether a transformation satisfies the five Governing Criteria.
One definition of what must become true, read and proven across disciplines.
Designed to integrate all five Governing Criteria.
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PMBOK, PRINCE2, the PMO
Defined work: scope, schedule, budget and risk.
Disciplined funding, sequencing and delivery of the initiatives.
Each initiative to the operating requirement it exists to satisfy, so progress reads as operating change.
Agile and scaled agile
Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS
Iterative delivery, and teams aligned around value streams.
Fast, adaptive delivery at team and portfolio level.
Backlogs and value streams to the operating conditions they must make true, and to evidence that those conditions hold.
Lean Six Sigma
DMAIC, Lean
Waste and variation in a defined process.
Measured improvement with statistical evidence.
Process improvements to the mandate, so the processes improved are the ones the transformation depends on.
Process modeling, BPM and process mining
BPMN, BPM suites, event-log analytics
How processes are documented, standardized and observed in system logs.
Specified steps and evidence of actual-state behavior.
Process detail to the end-to-end flow and its seams, read on one coordinate system across functions.
Value stream mapping
Lean VSM
Flow, delay and waste across one stream.
Visibility of handoffs and waits from request to delivery.
Individual streams to one coordinate system, so they can be compared and integrated across the enterprise.
Enterprise architecture
TOGAF, capability maps
Capabilities, data, applications and technology.
An integrated target landscape.
Capabilities to how work flows through them, and the architecture to evidence that operations changed.
Target operating model design
TOM blueprints
Future-state structure, roles, processes and capabilities.
An intended, integrated future state.
The design to the running work, through explicit requirements, enablement and proof.
Change management
ADKAR, Kotter
How people adopt and sustain a change.
Adoption, readiness and reinforcement.
Adoption to a defined operating change, so what people adopt is what the operating model requires.
OKRs, scorecards and benefits management
OKRs, balanced scorecard, benefits registers
Measurable objectives, and benefits tracked against the business case.
Direction made measurable; benefits reported to sponsors and the board.
Each objective and benefit to the operating change that produces it, in a form finance can reproduce.
Zero-based budgeting
ZBB
The justification of every cost, from zero.
A reset cost base.
Cost decisions to the operating conditions the transformation requires. The two rebuild different things from zero.
Reference frameworks
APQC PCF, TBM, COBIT, ITIL
Common taxonomies for processes, technology cost and IT control.
A shared vocabulary and benchmarks.
The taxonomy to the specific conditions this enterprise’s strategy requires.
ERP, platform and AI programs
Platform deployment, GenAI, agents, automation
Configuration and deployment of systems, automation and AI.
The technology the redesigned work runs on.
Each intervention to the operating change it is meant to enable, with its return shown separately.
Descriptions summarize each discipline’s stated purpose. Most enterprises use several together. ZBTOS™ connects them; it does not replace them.
One coordinate system
Every framework your teams use, on one coordinate system.
Each discipline keeps its own vocabulary. GSDPI™ gives the business work they all touch five plain words in common.
Training & Certificates
Learn the models on one shared case, then on your own work.
Training, assessment and support for transformation capability.
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