DES

TO-BE Design Checklist

Used in STEP 6 STEP 7

A glimpse inside

Preview of the DES worked example — structure and colouring shown, detail deliberately softened

5 tabs: Cover · blank checklist · MAP baseline · Meridian worked example · MAP worked. A criterion per row, scored Yes / Partial / No with the colouring applied automatically, plus evidence, owner and action; completeness and the AS-IS-to-TO-BE timing deltas calculate at the foot.

In a sentence — test a proposed future state criterion by criterion, so ‘automated’ and ‘actually fixed’ don't quietly become the same thing.

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What this tool does

A future-state design can look finished and still carry every risk the current state had — just faster. This checklist tests the design against explicit, named criteria rather than a general sense that things have improved, and it won't let a criterion pass without evidence and an owner attached to it.

Its AS-IS baseline reads live from the MAP tab included alongside it, so the improvement it reports — touch time, elapsed time, flow efficiency, risk count — is a real comparison against what you actually measured, not a target set independently of the diagnosis.

WHY THIS HELPS

Partial and No both require an action, not just a note. It's easy to write ‘mostly there’ and move on; this sheet won't let a gap sit unassigned, because an unassigned gap is the one that quietly reappears months later.

READING THE IMPACT PANEL

Elapsed time, touch time and flow-efficiency improvement aren't scored the same way, and it matters. For elapsed and touch time, the reduction shown is 1 minus (TO-BE target ÷ AS-IS baseline) — a straightforward percentage cut, so entering a TO-BE elapsed time of 10 hours against an AS-IS baseline of 100 hours reports a 90% reduction. Flow efficiency is different: because it's already a percentage, the panel reports the plain difference in percentage points (TO-BE minus AS-IS), not a percentage of a percentage — going from 10% to 30% is a +20 point improvement, not some compounded ratio. High-severity risk count is a plain subtraction. A number that refuses to move even though the checklist above reads mostly Yes is the panel telling you the design has probably worked around the constraints rather than removed them — worth a second look at CA before the Phase 2 Gate, not after it.

What's included

DES · TO-BE Design Checklist — the blank tool

Ready to complete for your own engagement. Its AS-IS baseline reads live from the MAP tab included alongside it.

Worked example

The same tool completed end to end, using the fictional Meridian Wealth Management scenario. Its own MAP baseline (worked) tab feeds it the same way.

How it's used

A quick walkthrough of the sheet:

Using this tool

1Work through each design criterion and set Met? to Yes, Partial, No or N/A — the cell colours itself.

2Name the design artefact that proves it in Evidence, and the person accountable in Owner.

3Wherever the answer is Partial or No, record the action that will close the gap.

4Check the AS-IS vs TO-BE panel — it reads your MAP baseline automatically once you enter a TO-BE target.

5Aim for every criterion at Yes before the Phase 2 Gate at the end of Step 7; % complete updates itself as you go.

Matches the sheet's own columns exactly: #, Design criterion, Met?, Evidence, Owner, Action if gap.