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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.

Design the direction
At night, stone slabs across dark water lead, one after another, to a slit of warm light between two monoliths; a figure is on its way.

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.

How the work happens

Design the direction
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.
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 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.

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.

  1. Clarity Map · May come beforeTwo to three weeksThe decision, clarified: the underlying tension, the risk, the criteria and the first step.
  2. Direction Sprint · You are hereSix to ten weeksFrom diagnosis to design: the direction with its sequence, its owners and its instruments.
  3. Mission Control · OptionalContinuityFor what must be sustained over time: follow-through, decision memory and review rituals.

When the decision is already understood, what's missing is the direction.

Tell us where it stands. If it isn't clear yet, the Clarity Map is a good way to start.

Design the direction
At dusk, a slender pier runs into the water; at its end, a figure looks toward a distant gateway on the horizon.