Prepare
Prepare a business overview, customer and market evidence, current goals, budget and responsibilities. Separate facts, estimates and untested assumptions.
RESEARCH & PRACTICE / PEOPLE & AI · Problem pathway
Plan a business or enterprise
Connect direction, customer evidence, resources and near-term action.
Produce
Produce direction and scope, customer evidence, goals and assumptions, a resource budget and near-term actions.
Check
Check baselines, resource sources, action owners and acceptance criteria. Keep material untested assumptions explicitly unresolved.
Supporting knowledge
The six types describe resource roles. Select and combine them for the task.
Thinking · V1.0
Complexity, Simplicity, Ease, Diagram: A Method for Business Logic Design
Map the complexity of the question, then choose the main relationships to retain.
Map a complex business problem in full, find its structure, test the logic, then draw it. “Mapping the complexity, simplifying the complexity, making it easy, and turning it into a diagram” describes this process.
Methods · V1.0
Enterprise Planning in Ten Steps: Connecting Direction, Resources and Execution
Use ten steps to connect direction, customer evidence, resources and near-term action.
A practical update of an early ten-step planning framework, with customer evidence, cash-flow checks, agreed dependencies and rolling reviews. Two diagrams connect long-term direction to near-term work with owners, resources and acceptance criteria.
Models · V1.0
From Strategy to Visual Design: How Do Six Layers Carry the Same Meaning?
Check whether strategy, business and public expression communicate the same meaning.
Connect strategic intent, audience tasks, value proposition, content structure, visual rules and context of use. Two diagrams, a fictional example and a decision record show how to trace design choices and revise the relevant layer.
Playbooks · V1.0
Building an Industry Digital Platform in Verifiable Stages
For platform projects only, consult the phased construction and acceptance arrangements.
Define the first release around one verifiable business process, including its states, role permissions, and exception handling. Review four stages, assess system delivery and operating results separately, and use both to decide whether to expand.
Tools · V1.0
How to put funding sources and uses in one table
Match proposed funding, actual availability conditions and payment requirements.
Use one table to distinguish budgets, indications of interest, commitments, and funds received, then connect intended uses to payments. Two reconciliations and a fictional example help identify available cash, projected gaps, and open questions.
Training · V1.0
Explain a Business in One Sentence, One Paragraph and One Diagram
Test whether a one-page business map explains positioning and action clearly.
Choose an audience and explain one business through a positioning sentence, a short explanation, and a one-page relationship diagram. Ask someone new to restate it, then use their reading to check the value proposition and the diagram.
SKILL
Associated Skill
Brand & Project Briefing
The associated Skill supports initial material organization and consistent wording; it does not replace enterprise planning or business decisions.
Review and improve
Record results, deviations and knowledge or steps that need revision.
Practice → evaluation and review → revised knowledge and Skills