Research
Operating Model Construction and Elevation: Building the Enterprise TOM Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and by Convergence
Most operating-model work assumes a single direction of travel: strategy at the top, cascading down to a target operating model.
v0.4 · 19 October 2026 · First issued 1 September 2026 · Custodian: BusinessGPS · Version index and changelog
Layer 3: The Workaround Layer — Discovery as Capability Recovery
Layer 3 is the thinnest-treated of the five layers and the most consequential to get right.
v0.3 · 19 October 2026 · First issued 1 September 2026 · Custodian: BusinessGPS · Version index and changelog
From Strategy to TOM: The Linkage Chain — Market Signals, Value Proposition, Business Model, Operating Model and the Target Operating Model
Transformation designs can break not inside any single artefact but at the joins between them.
v0.2 · 19 October 2026 · First issued 1 September 2026 · Custodian: BusinessGPS · Version index and changelog
The Five As: Embedding AI in a Finance Operating Model — An Illustrative Worked Example
A companion worked example to the operating-model construction paper.
v0.2 · 19 October 2026 · First issued 1 September 2026 · Custodian: BusinessGPS · Version index and changelog
The Five-Layer Activity Model: Why Enterprise Transformation Addresses Two Layers and Misses Three
All enterprise work sits across five layers. Transformation programmes address two of them.
v3.2 · 19 October 2026 · First issued 1 April 2026 · Custodian: BusinessGPS · Version index and changelog
Foundations: The manifesto · The brief