guide your transformation with black box of execution

What is The Black Box of Execution (BBOE)?

We understand the difficulties that businesses encounter while trying to execute their strategies and improve their performance. To help organizations achieve their transformation objectives and goals, we have developed the Black Box of Execution (BBOE) framework. This practical approach integrates strategic formulation, execution, and management to offer a comprehensive, solution-focused approach to managing and enhancing organizational performance.

Our BBOE framework is designed to help organizations achieve transformation success by applying three essential levers -Value Validation, Value Delivery, and Foundational. These levers are critical to ensuring that your businesses can effectively manage work and improve performance.

What sets our BBOE framework apart from other transformation/ performance improvement frameworks is its focus on strategy evaluation and practical ways to measure progress and outcomes. Our BBOE framework has been successful in helping startups, mid-size and large commercial organizations, and the federal government achieve their performance goals. We are confident that our framework can help your organization achieve its transformation objectives and goals as well.

Value Validation

Includes methods and tools to validate customer expectations and benefits that your products and services are delivering.

Value Delivery

Includes methods and tools to visualize, organize, manage, and optimize your value delivery.

Foundational

Includes the foundational components required for Value Validation and Value Delivery

How we apply BBOE to transformations

Understand Your Operating Environment

Complexity is the norm in today’s operating theater. Change is emergent. We start by evaluating our clients' organizational context, strategic priorities and goals.

Align the Organization

Understand Your Operating Environment

Alignment needs to be created intentionally and cascaded across the organization. We apply the OKR methodology to help clients achieve this goal.

Engage Leadership to Mitigate Risks

Understand Your Operating Environment

Engage Leadership to Mitigate Risks

Leadership is key to achieving transformation objectives. We work with leaders to help them mitigate risks of large strategic investments.

Optimize Around Value Delivery

Use Complexity-Tested Frameworks

Engage Leadership to Mitigate Risks

Most large organizations do not understand how value flows through their organization. We help clients:

Map out current business operating model (how value is created and flows through the organization)
Identify potential areas for improvement
Design interventions to drive improvements at organizational, functional/team, and individual levels

Apply a Holistic View

Use Complexity-Tested Frameworks

Locally optimized improvements waste money and resources and do not contribute to organizational outcomes.

We apply a holistic approach to help our clients:

Understand the interconnection between strategy formulation and execution
Create key organizational metrics required for faster feedback
Use organizational performance levers to improve and achieve organizational business outcomes

Use Complexity-Tested Frameworks

Complexity is the norm in today's business environment. We help organizations gain competency by applying sense-and-respond approaches suited to deal with rapidly changing and interconnected environments. Cause-effect approaches are ill-suited to handle complex application, such as strategy, organization re-design and other large-scale change initiatives

Nudge Behavior to Drive Change

Use Leading and Lagging Metrics to Inform Decision Making

Using Behavioral science insights, we work with clients to improve their competencies in identifying and "nudging" behaviors and changes required to achieve business outcomes. We apply behavioral science to design human-centered processes and policies.

Use Leading and Lagging Metrics to Inform Decision Making

We work with clients to help them develop key metrics required to achieve organizational strategy, including

Leading indicators to inform decisions that influence ultimate outcomes.
Lagging indicators that are the ultimate measure of success of those outcomes.

Implement Organizational Preconditions

Use Leading and Lagging Metrics to Inform Decision Making

Implement Organizational Preconditions

We help clients identify the missing preconditions needed to successfully achieve outcomes, including

Potential changes of business operating model
Repositioning IT as a value center
Identifying skills and competencies required to build future business and workforce capabilities
Coherent policies and processes that encourage the new ways of working needed to achieve organizational strategies