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The Toolkit

Twelve working instruments, mapped to the method.

Eleven tools ship as spreadsheets with the blank instrument, ready to complete, and a worked example completed end to end against a fictional scenario — so you can see what ‘done’ looks like before you start your own. The twelfth — the Council Operating Pack — ships as four ready-to-complete Word templates for running a Prioritisation Council.

ALL 12

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All twelve instruments, bundled at a discount against buying them separately — £369 + VAT for all twelve (save £161 against £530 bought individually, both figures before VAT — a saving of just over 30%).

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All twelve tools

AFC
Appetite-for-Change Assessment
Score what leadership says about its appetite for disruption against what its actual past behaviour supports, and let the gap between the two be the finding.
STEP 1
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OMM
Operational Maturity Model
Score operational capability across ten dimensions on the same 1–5 scale, so a baseline, a target and an evidenced result can all be compared honestly.
STEP 2STEP 3STEP 9STEP 10
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GG
Governance Gate Evidence Log
Keep a straightforward audit trail of every governance-gate decision, what evidence it rested on, and who owned it.
STEP 3STEP 7STEP 8STEP 9STEP 10
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MAP
AS-IS Mapping
Map how each priority service actually works today — step by step, system by system — and produce the touch-time, elapsed-time and risk baseline everything else measures against.
STEP 4
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VCA
Value Chain Analysis
Trace value from first demand to customer outcome, stage by stage, so waste and risk hiding inside a single team's process become visible across the whole chain.
STEP 4STEP 5STEP 6
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CA
Constraint Analysis
Work down the value chain, rank the few points that most limit flow, and trace each back to a root cause worth designing against.
STEP 5
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DES
TO-BE Design Checklist
Test a proposed future state criterion by criterion, so ‘automated’ and ‘actually fixed’ don't quietly become the same thing.
STEP 6STEP 7
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MOD
TOM Design Checklist
Confirm the target operating model actually supports the redesigned process across every layer — not just the layer that was easiest to redesign — and size each role from the work it has to do.
STEP 7
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PLAN
Change Roadmap & Plan
Sequence the change into phased, owned milestones, with dependencies and delivery risk tracked against every one of them.
STEP 8
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BEN
Benefits Realisation Tracker
Track whether the outcomes promised at design stage are actually landing and holding, against the same baseline you started with.
STEP 8STEP 9STEP 10
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PM
Prioritisation Matrix
Triage fast with a value-versus-effort quadrant, or run the full weighted model when the stakes and the competing claims are higher.
PART 2 · PRIORITISATION COUNCIL
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CP
Council Operating Pack
Turn the Prioritisation Council from an idea into a forum that actually meets — Terms of Reference, Agenda, Minutes and a running Decision Log, ready to complete for your own organisation.
PART 2 · PRIORITISATION COUNCIL
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Not sure which one you need?

The tools are listed in the order the book first uses them, and every tool page names the step (or steps) it supports. If you're working through the method in order, The Method lays out all ten steps.