Question 1

What is the Operating Model Fitness Index?

Accepted Answer

A five-minute, thirteen-question diagnostic that scores an organisation's operating model against the conditions it now has to work in. It produces a structural reading both the CEO and the board chair can act on together, across the three phases of Raze, Enrich, and Grow.

Question 2

Who is the diagnostic for?

Accepted Answer

The CEO and the board chair of a mission-driven organisation — typically charities, foundations, NGOs, and other institutions whose operating model was designed for conditions that have since moved. It is built for the governance conversation, not the consulting deliverable.

Question 3

How long does the diagnostic take?

Accepted Answer

Five minutes. Thirteen questions. The scored structural diagnosis is produced immediately on screen and as a downloadable PDF, and can be forwarded to the board chair in one click, governance-framed.

Question 4

What do CEOs and Chairs receive when they finish?

Accepted Answer

A scored structural diagnosis: external shock exposure, internal structural fitness, quadrant placement, weakest phase across the Raze, Enrich, and Grow arc, and the dominant pattern across the operating model. Both parties see the same diagnosis for the first time.

Question 5

How is this different from a strategy review?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 6

What happens after we submit our answers?

Accepted Answer

The results page produces the diagnosis on screen and as a downloadable PDF. The CEO can forward the structural reading to the board chair in one click. There is no obligation to proceed; the decision is whether to commission the redesign.

One instrument. Two readers.