System of Achievement
What This Is
Achievement Management establishes and continuously manages what must be achieved, how it must come together, and whether it actually will.
The System of Achievement is the management system combining the discipline, process, services and supporting technology required to manage achievement.
At its foundation is the authoritative representation of what must be achieved, who owns it, how it causally comes together, and whether it remains capable of success.
It represents:
- what must be achieved and why,
- who owns each Achievement,
- how Achievements contribute to, support, enable, constrain or otherwise affect one another,
- and whether the full set remains capable of success.
An Achievement is something that must become true. It is not a task, a project schedule, a meeting action or simply a KPI.
What It Does
Organizations already have strategy, plans, project management, operations systems, KPIs, dashboards, meetings and communications. Those remain valuable and manage much of how work gets done.
Shared Performance provides the missing what-and-why context above and across them.
The System of Achievement maintains explicit Achievements, ownership, causal relationships, status, evidence and history so leadership can understand whether the required Achievements remain capable of coming together.
Existing ERP, CRM, project, workflow, development, collaboration and other systems can remain in place and be linked to the Achievements they help deliver.
How It Works
The current service method is Establish, Assess and Improve.
Establish
Create the initial authoritative representation: identify Achievements, define what and why, establish ownership and causal relationships, and connect supporting evidence and necessary context.
Assess
Evaluate quality, sufficiency, causal completeness, risk, status, dependencies, evidence and the ability of the representation to come together.
Improve
Correct gaps, strengthen definitions and relationships, intervene on risks, reprioritize and continuously improve both the representation and achievement performance.
What Leadership Can See
The System of Achievement helps leadership understand:
whether all required Achievements are present and causally connected,
where ownership, support or forward indicators are missing,
where dependencies expose other Achievements to risk,
where risk is visible early enough to intervene,
what has been achieved, pushed, changed, cancelled or repeatedly missed,
and whether the whole remains capable of coming together.
SP Attain supports the System of Achievement.
SP Attain is the software platform that sustains the System of Achievement.
It provides the environment for managing Achievement definitions, ownership, dates, status, indicators, causal relationships, supporting information, security, history, attachments and connections to execution systems.
The current commercial model is services-first, with SP Attain licenses embedded.
