Three phases. Each one fails separately.
Most organisations try to grow without razing first. The substrate is not ready. The Regenerate Framework separates the work.
You have commissioned a strategy review that did not change the model. You are not alone. Most do not.
The Regenerate Framework separates the work into three disciplines. The clearing. The substrate. The design of what comes next. Each is a distinct phase with its own governance requirement.
Why three phases, not one
Most institutions try to grow without razing first. The structure that funded the old model is still standing, and there is no capacity left to build the new one. The Regenerate Framework treats these as separable disciplines, each with its own tools, its own governance, and its own timing. The Operating Model Fitness Index scores them separately because they fail separately.
RAZE. The strategic decommissioning of what no longer fits.
Institutional habits, capacities, structures, and assumptions still being defended despite the conditions having moved past them. The programme that made the organisation's reputation. The governance routine that used to protect it. The workflow designed for the funders who are no longer writing the cheques. Most organisations cannot grow because they have nothing left to grow with. RAZE recovers that capacity.
"Fire vision: the ability to see clearly in the smoke, to distinguish what must be released from what can be preserved."
From The Regenerate Leap, Chapter 3.
ENRICH. Composting what was cleared into the substrate that supports what comes next.
Governance, capacity, relationships, capital, and the institutional conditions that determine whether new growth is possible. This is the phase most institutions skip. They clear and they plant in the same season. The substrate is not ready. The new model starves on depleted ground. ENRICH is where the redesign quietly succeeds or quietly fails, twelve months before anyone notices.
GROW. The standing discipline of designing operating models fitted to current conditions.
A new form fitted to current and emerging conditions. Built on the substrate that ENRICH prepared and the capacity that RAZE recovered. GROW is designed work, not emergent work. It happens at pace once RAZE and ENRICH have cleared the ground. Most organisations that stall in GROW do so because they started the phase before the previous two were complete.
The science underneath the method
The Regenerate Framework is built on three grounded sources. The ecology of fire-adapted landscapes, where Pausas and Keeley (2019) established that regeneration after disturbance follows phase-ordered rules. Linda Hill's leadership research at Harvard Business School, where the Architect, Bridger, Catalyst framework describes the leadership conditions required for co-creation. And Stuart J. Green's three decades of field methodology, first applied in the Pamilacan Island case from 1998 onward and tested across conservation institutions, SMEs, and multilateral development banks since.
What the method produces.
A scored structural diagnosis both parties can govern against. A phased redesign brief with RAZE, ENRICH, GROW sequenced against the organisation's actual capacity. Capability released by decommissioning that funds the next model rather than propping up the current one. A board conversation that is no longer stuck in strategy language when the problem is structural.
Regeneration is not iteration. It is re-composition.
From The Regenerate Leap, Chapter 3.
The Operating Model Fitness Index scores each phase separately because each phase fails separately.
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