For leaders navigating AI-driven change
AI is changing how your organisation works. Stay in command of it.
Your operating model was built for the way work used to happen. The Operating Model Fitness Index shows you where AI has moved the ground, and what to redesign first.
Five minutes. Thirteen questions. One diagnosis both readers can act on.
From a current engagement
“Stuart’s strategy review for the Seafood Task Force gave us something exceptional. And something most strategy processes do not produce. A diagnosis the board could govern against and a plan built directly on this diagnosis. Working together, Stuart has set the course for the next five years and given me, as CEO, the structural ground I needed to lead from.”
Martin Thurley, CEO, Seafood Task Force
The system has moved. The model has not.
Funding, regulation, workforce, and technology have all shifted in the last decade. Most operating models were designed for the prior state, and most strategy reviews are run inside those same prior assumptions. That is why 88 per cent of large change programmes fail to deliver (Bain, 2024): they address the wrong layer.
The Regenerate Framework names that layer and scores it.
How it works
One instrument, two readers
The person who leads the organisation takes the diagnostic. The result forwards to the person who governs or funds it in one click, framed for that seat. Both readers see the same structural fitness score for the first time.
A clear decision
Whether to commission the redesign. No obligation to proceed.
A joint plan
A redesign brief grounded in three decades of field methodology.
A real example
He had solutions ready. Restructure. New incentives. Better benefits. The solutions were not the problem.
A chief executive called Stuart. His organisation was bleeding talent. He had the architecture fixes prepared. After forty minutes, neither had discussed strategy. Stuart had surfaced the real problem: the leadership condition underneath the structural symptoms. Three weeks later, the chief executive found a solution Stuart would never have proposed, because it came from understanding the actual condition rather than the visible one.
From The Regenerate Leap, Chapter 11.
The leader and the board see different things.
That is the most common failure pattern when conditions move. The person leading the organisation can see the operating model is no longer fitted to how the work now happens. The people who govern or fund it see budgets, delivery performance, and compliance. Neither has the instrument for the conversation that would change things.
- AI is changing how the work gets done faster than the model can follow.
- Competitors and peers are redesigning and pulling ahead.
- Investment sits unspent because there is no structural brief for it.
- The board is asking for data the organisation cannot yet produce.
- Delivery performance against targets.
- Budget and reserves trending.
- Risk and compliance.
- An annual strategy document reviewed once per cycle.
The structural data is shared with the second reader. The leadership reading is visible only to you. The instrument is designed so honest answers carry no governance penalty.
The operating model was designed for conditions that have since moved. The board governs delivery performance but not structural fitness. This summary is diagnostic. No recommendation is included. No personal performance data is shared.
One click from the results page. The second reader receives the structural data, and the leadership reading stays with you. This protects the leader while giving both readers the same diagnosis.
The leader takes the full diagnostic. The second reader receives only the structural summary, so your leadership data stays private.
Start as the leaderStart as a governor or funderCase study
One community. Three cohorts.
Pamilacan Island, Philippines, 1998. The government banned marine mammal hunting overnight. The community's primary income source became illegal. Twenty-four years later, three cohorts had emerged inside the same village.
50%
Worked the framework
Decommissioned the hunting economy, built ecotourism capability and community governance, emerged as the leading ecotourism institution in the region.
30%
Resisted the redesign
Demanded the prior state be restored. Declined across the period.
20%
Survived without redesigning
Held on but did not adapt. Plateaued.
The Method
Three phases. Each one fails separately.
The Regenerate Framework runs in three phases. Most institutions run them at the wrong order, or skip one entirely. The diagnostic scores fitness in each phase against the conditions the model now has to work in.
RAZE™
Decommission what no longer fits. Most reviews skip this phase because the data the prior state generated still flatters the people who built it.
ENRICH™
Build the capabilities the new conditions require. Not a programme refresh. A redesign of the operating model itself.
GROW™
Scale the redesigned model into the conditions it was built for. Most institutions reach this phase before completing the prior two and stall.
Three steps to get started
The same diagnosis, three steps.
Step 1 · Free
The Diagnostic
The Operating Model Fitness Index. Thirteen questions. Five minutes. Scored against the conditions the organisation now has to work in. Results forward to the board chair in one click, governance-framed.
Step 2 · Free
The Discovery Call
Forty-five minutes with Stuart. Both parties on the call, looking at the same diagnosis. The conversation that the diagnostic makes possible. No obligation to proceed.
Step 3 · Quoted & Optional
Operating Assumptions Review
The full structural review. Scoped and quoted after the discovery call. Delivered as a redesign brief the board can govern against and the executive can act on.
All engagements are run under fiduciary-grade confidentiality. The structural data stays inside the room.
Common questions
Questions leaders ask before they take the diagnostic.
What is the Operating Model Fitness Index?
A five-minute, thirteen-question diagnostic that scores an organisation's operating model against the conditions it now has to work in, including the change AI is forcing. It produces a structural reading the person who leads the organisation and the person who governs or funds it can act on together, across the three phases of Raze, Enrich, and Grow.
How is this different from a strategy review?
A strategy review is run inside the assumptions of the existing operating model. The Operating Model Fitness Index scores the model itself against the conditions it now has to operate in. Most strategy reviews fail because they address the wrong layer; this instrument names that layer.
Read all Operating Model Fitness Index questions and answers →
What success looks like
What changes when the method works.
The board governs structural fitness alongside delivery performance. You and the second reader are looking at the same diagnosis for the first time. The redesign is planned ahead of the change rather than forced by it. The organisation keeps delivering because the model was redesigned in time.
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Margaret 'Meg' Caldwell. Former Ocean Director, David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
"This book should be required reading for anyone in public service, diplomacy or humanitarian response."
Asif Ahmad CMG. British Ambassador to the Philippines, 2013 to 2017.
"His framework moves beyond the tired rhetoric of resilience and provides a clear methodology for genuine institutional renewal."
Professor Joe O'Mahoney. CEO, Equity Sherpa Ltd.
Press
As featured in
Writing on AI and the operating model in the global business press.
- Fast Company
- Forbes
- Observer
- CEOWORLD
- The European Business Review
- Corporate Compliance Insights
- Sustainable Business Magazine
- Inc. Arabia
- The HRDirector
- Edge (Institute of Leadership & Management)
- Elite Business Magazine
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