Structure defines the domains where value lives. Discipline stabilizes those domains through six operating behaviors. The third component of the Enterprise Readiness Operating Model™ addresses something different: how the enterprise actually moves. That movement is governed by decision flow. Every domain in the EROM is a system of recurring [...]
Structure defines the enterprise's functional architecture. The ten domains establish where value lives and how the organization is composed. But architecture without maintenance deteriorates. The second component of the Enterprise Readiness Operating Model™ addresses how structure gets stabilized over time: through operating discipline. Discipline in the EROM is not [...]
The Enterprise Readiness Operating Model™ is built on a straightforward premise: enterprise value does not exist in the abstract. It exists within the business's functional architecture, and that architecture either supports transferability or undermines it. Structure is the first of three integrated components in the model. It defines where [...]
What the Series Has Established This is the sixth and final post in the Exit by Design series. Across the previous five, we established a set of ideas that build on one another. Every government contracting owner will eventually exit their business. The Five Ds represent the most common ways [...]
