The previous post in this series worked through Governance, the domain that determines who holds authority when the founder is not in the room. This post turns to the domain right behind it: People, which asks whether the organization has anyone besides the founder capable of using that authority [...]
The first three posts in this series worked through the architecture of the Enterprise Readiness Operating Model™ itself: how value lives inside structure, how discipline keeps that structure functioning, and how decisions actually move through an organization once judgment is required. This post begins the second phase of the [...]
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 [...]
