ZBTOS by ETEGY
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Component 04 · The operating system

ZBTOS™

The operating system that brings the Governing Criteria, GSDPI™ and BRACE™ for Transformation together, keeps requirements, decisions, work and evidence connected, and carries them into the next transformation.

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The four componentsMethodology overview ›
A transformation team working together
Your operating model.
What is read and changed.
ZBTOS™.
The system your team uses to work on it.
Carried forward.
Each transformation makes the next one easier to read.
How it fits together

Three components keep their jobs. One system keeps them connected.

The Governing Criteria
Zero-Based Transformation™
What must be true.
The model
GSDPI™
How the operating model is read.
The process
BRACE™ for Transformation
How one transformation is worked.
The operating system
ZBTOS™
RequirementsDecisionsWorkEvidence
Carried to the next transformation →

ZBTOS™ is the operating system and method. Your operating model is what it reads and changes.

Why it matters

Why an operating system, not a framework.

01
Each component keeps its job.
ZBTOS™ integrates the criteria, the model and the process without merging them.
02
The connections hold.
Requirements, decisions, work and evidence stay linked from mandate to proof.
03
The capability stays.
Held by your own people, and carried into the next transformation.

Evidence. Transformation research associates sustained results with embedding transformation disciplines in ordinary structures (McKinsey, 2021; PEX Network, 2025). It does not independently validate the ZBTOS™ architecture, which ETEGY formalized from transformation practice.

What your team learns

What your team will be able to do.

Foundation teaches it on the Meridian case, with each area applying it to its own work. The Practitioner Intensive applies it to one live transformation.

Foundation
See how the parts connect.
Follow one case from criteria to proof across all four components.
Intensive
Keep the connections on live work.
On one live transformation, keep requirements, decisions, work and evidence linked.
Intensive
Carry it forward.
Take what that transformation taught into the next one.

“They didn’t just find the problem, they found a hundred little ones and showed us how they connected. What stayed after they left was the part that mattered: the controls, the review cadence, the ownership.”

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