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The frameworks

Presentation

Story, data, meaning

Make a number mean something to the people looking at it.

Message · Capability framework · No. 73

The shape

  1. Story
  2. Data
  3. Meaning

A worked example

Story
Customers are waiting longer for support.
Data
Average response time went from two hours to six.
Meaning
That is now large enough to breach our service commitment.

What usually goes wrong

A story that the data does not actually support, which is persuasive right up to the moment somebody checks.

Mostly serves Message, and reaches into Connection.

A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.

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