The Resilient Organizational Architecture Diagnostic (ROAD) is a purpose-built assessment framework designed to help organizations measure, reflect on, and improve their resilience across multiple strategic dimensions.
ROAD brings together 22 Key Result Areas (KRAs): Each one carefully drafted to represent a critical pillar of what makes an organization adaptable, innovative, and aligned for long-term value creation. These 22 KRAs were developed through an iterative, research-informed process involving extensive literature review, field insights from sustainability and resilience practices, and use across hundreds of diverse organizational contexts.
Each KRA reflects not only what organizations should aspire to, but also what leading organizations do in practice when facing disruption, transformation, or complexity. Each KRA page herein contains a focused diagnostic statement accompanied by a scoring guide and real-world examples. The same 22 power the ROAD Tool and our AI-powered assessment.
- Core Values
- Vision and Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)
- Core Competencies
- Needs of Underserved Markets
- Divergent Thinking
- Experimentation
- Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Enablers
- Modular Structure
- Smart Power
- Alignment
- Environmental Considerations
- Community Interests and Concerns
- Governance Practices
- AI Tools: Strategy
- AI Tools: Procurement
- AI Tools: Operations
- AI Tools: Distribution
- AI Tools: Financial Risk
- Upskilling
- Job Rotation
- Public-Private Partnerships
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