ENGAGEMENT · PROGRAM
A Program is a sequence of Thing Company Sprints across several initiatives, divisions, routes or markets. Each bet gets its own Findings Brief, and a Portfolio Scorecard rates all of them on the same five fits, showing where to commit capital and where to stop.
Each bet runs as its own Sprint, judged on the same standard as the others. → How a Sprint runs
Which of these bets deserves the next tranche of capital, judged on one standard.
A named sponsor for each bet, with authority to convene its gate, and one executive who owns the allocation decision the scorecard feeds.
Billed monthly against the agreed deliverable cadence, with the fee fixed at scoping.
A Program runs across several months. Each bet gets a lead matched to its sector from Thing Company and its expert network, and the start date is set at the Sprint Assessment.
A Program is a sequence of Sprints across several initiatives, divisions, routes or markets. Each bet gets its own Findings Brief, and a Portfolio Scorecard rates all of them on the same five fits.
When several initiatives are competing for the same capital, when each company in a portfolio was assessed differently or not at all, when a division-level bet needs the same test in three markets, or when the board wants one comparable standard instead of three competing narratives.
How every bet rates on the same five fits, so that allocation becomes a comparison instead of an argument: where to commit capital and where to stop.
A Program runs across several months. Each bet gets a lead matched to its sector from Thing Company and its expert network, and the start date is set at the Sprint Assessment. It is billed monthly against the agreed deliverable cadence, with the fee fixed at scoping.
Bring the list of bets and who sponsors each one. We will tell you whether one comparable standard is worth the sequencing.
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