Stage 3 of 14 · Phase 1 — Foundation & Baseline

Stage 3 — Assess Readiness

Transform validated discovery evidence and assessment results into a defensible decision: proceed, proceed with conditions, delay, or do not proceed.

Executive question

Are we ready—and what is the recommended path forward?

  • Why are we not ready?
  • Which gaps are critical, and which can wait?
  • What is the business impact, investment and sequence?
  • When should the programme move to Strategy?
Ten decision workspaces

Readiness synthesis by enterprise dimension.

Executive outputs

Decision-ready deliverables.

Reusable engine

Gap analysis model.

Investment choices

Prioritisation framework.

Decision views

Executive dashboards.

Enterprise

Overall readiness, gaps, risks, recommendations, decision and roadmap.

Programme

Outstanding work, dependencies, approvals, risks and next activities.

Architecture

Technology, integration, infrastructure, cloud, security, data and AI platforms.

Operations

Support, monitoring, incidents, skills and runbooks.

Reusable visual analysis

Heat maps and decision matrices.

Open visualisation library

Executive outcome

Four decision dispositions.

Nothing stands alone

Evidence-to-strategy traceability.

Design-only assistance

Governed prompt builders.

Organisation-specific confirmation

Configure the readiness decision without inventing enterprise facts.

  • Accountable readiness authority — organisation to confirm.
  • Readiness acceptance thresholds — configure according to risk appetite and delegated authority.
  • Applicable regulation — select according to jurisdiction, industry and use-case impact.
  • Investment and remediation targets — define during the executive readiness decision.