The direction is set.The decisions are not.

Each commitment locks your organization further into a path. Axion shows leadership what is still unresolved before it arrives, and who owns the consequence.

Signing a deal, getting board approval, committing the budget. Each one locks your organization further into a path. Ownership, capacity and operating consequences can still be unresolved when that commitment arrives, and no single team may own them.

Axion reviews organizational readiness before the next major commitment in a program, business change or strategic opportunity. Leadership sees what is in place, what remains unresolved, who owns the consequence, and which decisions it needs to make.

Discuss a readiness review How it works

For transformation, PMO and strategy execution leaders, and the executives they work for. Axion adds to your PMO and advisers. It does not replace them.

Your next ten weeks
In 2 weeks
The planning cycle closes
Still open: which of three programs gets the two business owners they all need.
In 5 weeks
The acquisition reaches its next binding step
Still open: who will run the acquired business.
In 9 weeks
The ERP design is signed off
Still open: who owns each process after go-live.
Three commitments are approaching.
Critical decisions are still open.

Decisions leaders already face

Three programs need the same two business owners.

Each program has a sponsor and a credible plan. All three depend on the same two business owners in the same quarter. The programs are governed separately, so none of them can decide the order.

The decision
How to sequence the same capacity across the three programs, and who owns the consequence of the delay.
By when
Before the next planning cycle fixes the resources.
Who owns it
The executive above all three sponsors.

The acquisition looks right. How it will run is not agreed.

The case for the deal is strong. Who will run the acquired business, which systems stay, and what happens if the commercial assumptions fail are still assumptions.

The decision
Make the next commitment now, or first settle the conditions the price depends on.
By when
Before the next binding step.
Who owns it
The deal sponsor and the executive who will run the business after closing.

The go-live date is fixed. Process ownership is not.

The ERP program can configure the system. It cannot decide which local practices the business gives up, or who owns each process after go-live.

The decision
Confirm the go-live date, move it, or go live in phases.
By when
Before the design is signed off.
Who owns it
The executive sponsor and the heads of the functions that change.
The first decision sits between programs. The other two sit inside one deal and one program. Axion makes each decision explicit and connects the ones that cut across programs. Leadership decides.

Start with one readiness review

Before the next major commitment in a program, business change or strategic opportunity, Axion reviews readiness across six categories.

Leadership sees what is in place, what is unresolved, who owns the consequence, and which decisions it must take. It may still decide to proceed. The risk is then explicit and owned.

Discuss a readiness review How it works
  • Business case and market
  • Operations and capacity
  • Compliance and risk
  • Technology and data
  • Leadership and decisions
  • People, incentives and adoption

Each further review uses the same six categories and builds on what is already known about your organization. With two or more reviews, Axion can show where they depend on the same people, systems, capabilities and decisions.

A readiness review in three steps

  1. 1

    Define

    We record what the program, change or opportunity must deliver, why now, and what it depends on.

  2. 2

    Assess

    We review readiness in each of the six categories and list what is unresolved, with evidence and an owner.

  3. 3

    Decide

    We take leadership through the findings and the decisions it must take.

How it works

Run with Axion AI

Axion works in Axion AI, its own software. It holds the definition of what is under review and the findings. It also keeps facts about your organization, so the next review starts from what is already known.

Axion AI is available by invitation, as part of Axion's advisory work.

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Each discipline covers its part. Axion focuses on what sits between.

Axion adds to the people you already have. It does not replace them.

Your advisers
Set the direction.
Your program teams
Deliver their own plan.
Your PMO
Runs governance, reporting, coordination and escalation.
Change management
Works on adoption.
Axion
Reviews the conditions all of them depend on, and prepares the decisions no single program or team can take.
Ido Maslaton, founder of Axion

Who is behind Axion

Axion was founded by Ido Maslaton, after more than 20 years leading large programs across EMEA and the Americas.

About the founder

Start with one readiness review.

Tell us what is approaching a major commitment.

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