Eight months after the crisis, the institution gets a different kind of test. The government announces $200 million in funding with a sixty-day deadline. In the old days, this would have triggered another forty-seven-ideas meeting. Instead, the leadership team uses its shared vocabulary to make a disciplined decision in two weeks. Not sixty days. Two weeks. This chapter shows you how to apply reference models under real-world pressure: consulting versus instantiating, assessing fitness for context, and using reference model evidence to answer the governance questions that keep strategy honest.
By the end of this chapter, you'll be able to:
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