Four levels · five dimensions · one scale
Structure your organization
can carry.
Corporate governance, PMO and portfolio management, and change management for SMEs and public entities: measured first, sized to the level you are at, run on real work, and handed over to your people.
Ten questions. Nothing is stored unless you ask for the result by email.
- Improvised
- Outcomes depend on individuals.
- Agreed
- A shared way, written and known, applied unevenly.
- Practiced
- Applied consistently, with data, reviewed on a cadence.
- Adaptive
- The practice changes itself on evidence.
The method and the check share this scale. Level 4 is not everyone's goal: for many SMEs the right level is 2 or 3.
What we help with
Three practices we build most often.
- Flagship 01
Corporate governance
Decision rights, a board or committee rhythm, and the few documents that make decisions visible and followed.
Scores the dimension Decisions and governance
- Flagship 02
PMO and portfolio management
A PMO set up and started to serve your portfolio rather than police it, a portfolio you can fund and staff, and project management when you need it.
Scores the dimension Portfolio and PMO
- Flagship 03
Change management
A change approach sized to the people who will live with the change, so it lasts after the project team has gone.
Scores the dimension People and change
How we work
Fit-to-Maturity, in five stages.
The method decides how much of a practice an organization gets. A company at level 1 gets a different governance design from one at level 3, and both are right for where they are.
Short cycles, each checked by your decision-maker, until it matches what you expect.
- 01
Map
Find out where you are.
- 02
Fit
Design the practice to the level. The loop begins.
DesignPut it to workYou check itAdjust
Your decision-makerOn your side, with the final say. Accepts or redirects each step.Short cycles, each checked by your decision-maker, until it matches what you expect.
- 03
Run
Run it on real work. The loop turns until it holds.
- 04
Hold
Hand it over.
- 05
Revisit
Keep, change or retire.
Six principles · five stages · four maturity levels · and the four things we do not do.
Where to start
Start where it suits you.
See where you are
Ten questions, under five minutes: a maturity level by dimension and a sensible starting point. Nothing is stored unless you ask for the result by email.
Take the maturity checkTalk for 30 minutes
A discovery call with no slides. You describe the situation, we ask questions, and you get a written note of what we heard.
Request a discovery callRead something first
Short pieces on why PMOs are abandoned, how much governance a forty-person company needs, and change when nobody has time for it.
Read the insights
Who we are
A practice, not a roster.
Six disciplines: governance, portfolio and PMO, strategy, organization development, human capital, change.
Over three decades of collective practice in governance, portfolio and PMO, strategy, organization development, human capital and change, inside organizations like the ones we serve. We show no faces here, by choice; you meet the people in the discovery call.
About the practiceInsights
Latest from the practice.
Good governance without losing speed
Governance slows a business down when it is built as a chain of approvals. Built as clear decision rights and a few firm boundaries, it is what lets people move fast without having to ask.
Is the PMO still relevant? Yes, but not the one you remember
The PMO as a reporting and compliance office is disappearing, and it should. The PMO as the place where an organization chooses, sequences and stops its work is needed more than ever.
Why customer journey analysis has become unavoidable
Customers judge the whole experience, across every channel. Organizations are built by department. A journey analysis is the one view that shows the organization the way its customers see it, and where the friction and the cost really are.
Where are you?
Five dimensions. Which one lags?
An organization is rarely at one level everywhere. The check scores each dimension on its own, in five minutes, and names a sensible starting point.
Your profile, filled in by the check. Blank until you take it.