Diagnostics / ABEC Diagnostic

Agile Business Execution Canvas (ABEC®) Diagnostic

Measures how well your organisation's foundations, execution and agility are aligned, across the five pillars of Understanding, Articulating, Designing, Operationalising and Adapting.

What it measures

Foundations Steps 1–6

Structured Collaboration · Mission/Purpose · Vision · Principles · Values and Behaviours · Strategy Deployment

Understand Step 7

Must Haves · Must Not Haves · Delight · Anticipate

Articulate Step 8

Internally · Across · Externally

Design Step 9

Social System · Technical System · Economic System

Operationalise Step 10

Control · Effectiveness · Efficiency · Agility · Automation & AI · Digitalisation

Adapt Step 11

Monitor · Learn · Improve · Respond · Innovate

The three scores

Foundation Score: How well the six foundations are in place.
Execution Score: How well the five pillars work together. A weak pillar pulls the whole score down.
Agility Score: How often the canvas is revisited to stay aligned with strategy. Measured once the canvas is in use.

Each score has a matching gap score: the distance still to go.

Measurement rounds

Start with a Baseline, then run follow-up rounds at whatever interval suits you: closer together while changes are bedding in, further apart once they are established. From the second round on, each question is asked twice: where you are now, and where you now think you were at the Baseline. Rounds come in packs of 2, 4, 6 or 8.