Bring a live transformation. Build the capability to diagnose and govern it.
A transformation can have strategy, workstreams, governance, technology, change management and a benefits case — and still have no explicit chain connecting what the strategy requires to what the enterprise must actually make true.
Bring a real transformation. Leave with a defensible diagnosis of where value is breaking, an Enablement Blueprint (what must be true before the work can start) for what must change, and a high-level plan for how value will be realized and proven.
- Your practitioners can describe the transformation, but cannot yet state what the operating model has to make true.
- The program reports activity, and the value case still rests on numbers no one can source.
- You are buying execution capability, and you want it to stay in your own people.
The question the Intensive puts to every participant is the one their sponsor eventually asks: what must actually become true in the operating model?
ZBTOS does not replace the execution disciplines. It gives them a clearer operating problem to solve.
Every execution discipline acts on the operating model, and every one of them inherits a mandate. What each needs is an operating definition — stated precisely enough to own, decide against and prove.
What the enterprise has decided to pursue.
What must become true in the operating model. Who owns it, what decision rights govern it, and what evidence settles it.
Each does its own job better when the operating problem is stated rather than inferred.
What changed, what can be shown from the record, and what it was worth.
Three governed outputs, built on the participant’s own transformation — and the discipline to keep them honest.
Each one is produced on work the practitioner owns, and defended under faculty challenge before it leaves the room. What it can claim is bounded by the evidence behind it.
Defensible Diagnosis
Where value is breaking in the operating system, with seams, handoffs and the evidence boundary visible.
Enablement Blueprint
What operating conditions must become true, including ownership, decision rights, evidence and gates.
High-Level Value Realization Plan
What can be claimed, what remains forecast or hypothesis, what must be proven, and what decision or access is required.
Executive Defense
The position stated the way a sponsor will hear it, and challenged before it is put in front of one.
30-Day Field Application Plan
The first moves back inside the transformation, with owners, sequence and dates.
One governed deployment, not a two-day class. It runs from before day one to ninety days after.
The Intensive is configured, deployed and closed as a single engagement — preparation before, two core days in the room, and governed follow-through after.
Working in two pods. Controlled Beta deployments support three to nine.
From preparation through the Impact Review, run as one engagement.
Each pod works its members’ own transformations under faculty challenge.
One they own or materially lead, an accessible record, and one real value claim, outcome or number to test.
The reference cases support the teaching. Your transformation is the work.
Small enough for every practitioner to defend a real position under live challenge.
The Intensive builds capability against real work. It does not certify anyone.
Capability is demonstrated on the practitioner’s own transformation, in front of faculty and peers, on work a sponsor already owns. Completion records that the governed experience was completed — nothing more, and nothing less.
Completion is recorded as a Certificate of Applied Completion — ZBTOS™ Practitioner Intensive, carrying the COMPLETED badge. It records applied completion of the governed experience. It is not certification, licensure or accreditation.
Different altitudes, not different levels.
Three ways the same operating problem gets addressed, depending on who has to hold the answer. None requires another first.
Transformation Alignment Workshop™
Three to seven enterprise leaders establish one shared mandate, one enterprise position and one Transformation Enablement Plan. The problem is that leadership means different things by the same transformation.
Explore TAW™ →ZBTOS™ Practitioner Intensive
Your practitioners build the operating response to a transformation they already own, under ZBTOS and faculty challenge, and take the capability back inside the enterprise. The problem is that the operating definition does not yet exist.
You are hereZero-Based Transformation™
ETEGY practitioners define and apply the transformation for a business unit, region, function or major programme. The problem is one the enterprise wants delivered rather than learned.
Explore ZBT™ →These are not tiers. Each is complete on its own. Bring the situation and we will say which one it is — or compare the ways we can help.
A transformation you can describe is not a transformation you can defend.
Bring the transformation and the practitioners who hold it. We will tell you whether a deployment fits, and what it would take.