Direction Sprint · The design

From diagnosis to a designed direction.

The Direction Sprint turns a decision you already understand into an executable answer. It takes six to ten weeks.

Who it's for

For the team that already understands its decision and needs to turn it into direction.

You got here through a Clarity Map or through your own work: the tension is named, the risk is visible, the criteria exist. What's missing isn't more analysis — it's the answer.

What problem it solves

The diagnosis exists. The executable answer doesn't.

Understanding a decision doesn't resolve it. Without a design that translates it into sequence, owners, and instruments, the diagnosis stays a document and the organization goes back to running on inertia.

What happens during the work

Change runs the method on your real case.

It's not a generic workshop: the work happens on the decision you brought. The tension gets interpreted, the criteria get made explicit, the answer gets designed and translated into instruments your team can operate.

What you get

At the close of the sprint:

The designed direction. The answer to the decision, with its sequence and its owners.

A living roadmap. Not a one-time plan: an instrument the team revisits when conditions change.

The criteria on record. Explicit, in a decision matrix the team can consult again.

Artifacts to execute and align. What it takes for the direction to be communicated and sustained without depending on anyone's memory.

Length

Six to ten weeks.

The range depends on the scope of the decision and the team's pace. It's defined at the start, not along the way.

What participation it requires

The direction is designed with the people who will sustain it.

Working sessions with the team that decides — it isn't delivered from the outside. Change's counterpart is whoever holds the decision, not a delegated area.

What can happen after

What must be sustained over time moves to Mission Control.

The direction and its instruments are yours and stay in your company — whether you continue or not. If the context will keep moving, Mission Control connects the follow-through, the why behind each decision, and the review rituals.

Bring the decision you already understand.

If it isn't clear yet, the starting point is the Clarity Map.

Traer una decisión