The Value Blueprint
A 6-function × 3-tier map of where organizations create, measure, and capture value. Every lab in our core series is anchored to a specific cell — so your learning is always connected to real organizational impact.
These three labs are the foundation of the Blueprint — start here.
Core Labs by Function & Tier
Every cell maps a real learning need. Empty cells indicate functions covered by the full 59-lab catalog.
| Sales | Marketing | Operations | Risk & Legal | HR & People | Finance & IT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic | ||||||
| Operational | ||||||
| Tactical |
Blueprint in Practice
60+ blueprints delivered across financial services, retail, technology, healthcare, agriculture, and government. What each deployment taught us about where the framework bends — and where it holds.
Regional Bank
Risk Management surfaced as a standalone column — mapping compliance, exposure, and assessment at every planning tier. Once visible in the framework, it became non-negotiable to every stakeholder in the room.
National Insurance Carrier
Industry-specific financial metrics — Embedded Value (EEV), Economic Value Added (EVA), Risk-Based Capital Ratio — required building an entirely new function column for Actuarial & Risk. The standard framework held; the column headings didn't.
Global Payments Network
Two business models — card issuance and merchant network — mapped in a single blueprint. Seven function columns tracked the platform's two-sided economics simultaneously, making interdependencies that lived in separate decks finally visible.
Discount Retail Chain
Corporate imperatives — Productive Sales Growth, Operating Efficiency, Technology Investment — anchored the top row and cascaded down into seven function columns including Omni-Channel and Real Estate. The blueprint made accountability impossible to avoid.
Global CDN & Cloud Platform
One engagement produced five distinct blueprints — a master enterprise view and four functional overlays for Sales, Operations, Workforce, and Supply Chain. The master became the source of truth; derived views served each audience without losing alignment.
Global Semiconductor Foundry
The Manufacturing column held metrics that don't exist in any standard business framework: fab yield, cycle time, WIP management, equipment utilization. Supply chain integrated with production throughput at every planning tier.
Regional Health Plan
This blueprint started on a whiteboard — hand-drawn during the discovery session, before a single cell was digitized. Three strategic levers (Market, Financial, Operational) replaced standard tier labels. The rough draft became the most useful artifact from the engagement.
Beverage Distributor
The blueprint didn't stop at strategy — it became the implementation spec. Extended with layers for Data Sources, Dimensions, Plan Types, and Management Reports, it mapped directly to the Anaplan model architecture, closing the gap between strategic intent and technical build.
State Government Agency
The framework doesn't care whether your customers are consumers or citizens. Agency functions, budget planning, service delivery, and citizen outcomes mapped cleanly across all three planning horizons — same structure, entirely different vocabulary.
Which Blueprint Do You Need?
Every deployment shares the same foundational logic. What varies is the lens — who it's for, what problem it solves, and how much of the organization it needs to show.
Enterprise-Wide
The full organizational view — all functions, all planning horizons. The strategic map of the entire business.
When leadership needs to see everything in one place.
Function-Focused
One or two columns elevated in depth. The enterprise frame holds, but a specific team — Sales, HR, Finance — gets more resolution.
When a function needs clarity without losing context.
Industry-Specific
Columns and metrics tailored to your vertical. Standard business functions don't cover Actuarial & Risk, fab yield, or HESS.
When your industry has metrics that don't exist in generic frameworks.
Technology-Connected
The grid extends to include data sources, plan types, and system connections. Strategy bridges directly to the implementation spec.
When you need to hand the blueprint to a technical team.
Imperative-Led
Corporate strategic imperatives anchored at the top, with explicit lines of impact cascading down into functional metrics.
When accountability needs to be visible, not implied.
Periodic Table Format
Element-tile layout instead of a traditional grid. Modular and visual-first — same logic, different presentation.
When the grid format doesn't land with your audience.
Discovery / Workshop
Hand-drawn or rough-draft, created live in a facilitated session. Captures the energy of discovery before anything is digitized.
When you're starting from zero — build the map in the room.
Every Blueprint starts as a workshop.
That's how all 60+ of them began — in a room, with a team, building the map together. The Value Mapping Lab is the flagship session where your org does exactly that: a 3-hour working session where you leave with your own Blueprint as the deliverable.
No pre-built template. No consulting deck. A live, facilitated session that produces your organization's map — not a generic one.