Enterprise Worked Examples (Executive)
Enterprise
Tactical Example: Resolve a cross-functional priority conflict
Field | Detail |
Problem | Functions agree an ambition but protect conflicting targets. |
Outcome | A clear enterprise choice with its trade-offs understood. |
Context | Mission, incentives, decision rights, evidence and capacity. |
Habit | Review whether your own decisions reward the behaviour you asked others to adopt. |
Shift | Compare the enterprise outcome with local targets and make a deliberate leadership choice. |
Prompt | Here is the problem: Functions agree an ambition but protect conflicting targets. The outcome we need is: A clear enterprise choice with its trade-offs understood. Use this context: [insert the relevant evidence and constraints]. Ask me what is missing. Compare the enterprise outcome with local targets and make a deliberate leadership choice. Separate evidence from interpretation and help me decide what to check before acting. |
Strategic Example: Imagine the organisation after the change has taken hold
Field | Detail |
Problem | Strong local initiatives do not yet add up to a coherent enterprise direction. |
Outcome | A shared set of leadership choices linking mission, people, technology and investment. |
Context | Strategic choices, learning from functions, capacity constraints and leadership commitments. |
Habit | Compare the imagined futures with evidence from real work. Make one leadership commitment visible in the next resource decision. |
Shift | Look back from different enterprise futures to see which decisions reinforce or undermine one another. |
Prompt | Imagine two years from now. In one future our mission, people and technology reinforce each other; in another we have many successful pilots but little enterprise change. What leadership choices created each future? Offer a third route inspired by another industry, and challenge the analogy. Which priorities, incentives and decision rights should we change or test now? |