The Structured Readiness Lens™ (SRL) is designed to ignite discussion among leadership teams by providing a common framework for examining conditions that may be invisible and affect the company’s ability to lead the next revolution in its industry.
The SRL provides a framework for examining conditions that may not appear in monthly financial and operational reports. The SRL examines the structure at 30,000 feet that produces the monthly results and surfaces conditions that are visible or invisible.
The Structured Readiness Lens™ framework consists of six pillars. Each pillar includes a Focus, Action, Projected Results, Core Issue, and Valuation component. Together, these elements provide a structured framework for leadership discussion and help participants reach conclusions regarding the company’s execution, readiness, and ability to lead the next revolution in its industry.
As the discussion progresses, leadership identifies conditions that may strengthen or hinder execution and the company’s ability to lead.
By the conclusion of the SRL, participants have identified conditions across the six pillars, reached agreement on potential core issues, and developed an estimated valuation associated with the discussion. Together, these conclusions provide leadership with a clearer understanding of the company’s execution, readiness, and ability to lead the next revolution in its industry.
The SRL serves as the front door to understanding a company through the lens of structure. It provides a framework for gathering information, identifying conditions, and developing leadership discussion before any deeper examination is considered.
The Structured Readiness Lens™ examines a company through six pillars. Each pillar contributes a different perspective while helping leadership develop a more complete understanding of the company’s execution, readiness, and ability to lead.
- Structure
Structure is the framework through which decisions, information, resources, and work flow across a company. It is where all inputs and outputs flow that produce the results leadership reviews each month.
Within the Structured Readiness Lens™, Structure serves as the foundational pillar because all other pillars operate within it. When the structure is aligned, execution flows. When misalignments exist, they can create conditions that strengthen or hinder a company’s ability to lead.
- Strategic Focus
Strategic Focus examines the company’s direction and its ability to align decisions, priorities, resources, and actions with that direction. It explores whether leadership has clarity regarding where the company is going and whether the structure supports successful execution.
- Leadership
Leadership examines how leaders influence direction, decision-making, communication, accountability, and execution across the company. It explores whether leadership actions, behaviors, and priorities support the structure and the company’s stated objectives.
- Innovation
Innovation examines the company’s ability to generate, develop, and convert ideas into products, services, processes, or capabilities that create value. It explores whether the structure supports the movement of ideas from concept to commercialization.
- Workforce Readiness
Workforce Readiness examines whether the company and its workforce are prepared to meet current and future requirements. Both the company and the workforce share responsibility for developing and maintaining the capabilities needed for successful execution.
- AI Implementation
AI Implementation examines the role artificial intelligence may play within the company. It considers how AI could affect decisions, work, products, services, future requirements, and how AI fits into the current workflow of employees.
Together, the six pillars provide a structured framework for leadership discussion and examination. The Structured Readiness Lens™ helps leadership identify conditions that may be visible or invisible, reach conclusions regarding execution and readiness, and develop a clearer understanding of the company.