Process Readiness

Process Readiness is a structured assessment of how ready a given process is for automation. It scores each candidate across five dimensions, classifies it into one of the Four Paths, and produces a sequenced recommendation. The Process Readiness Score is core methodology IP. It is the quantitative tool inside Stage 3 of the PFA Loop.

In a Process Readiness engagement, this assessment becomes the entire deliverable. It can stand alone as a complete piece of work, or it can be the foundation for a deeper engagement.

A process audit produces findings. A business analysis produces recommendations. Process Readiness produces classified decisions tied to a defensible methodology. Each candidate is scored quantitatively, classified deterministically, and connected explicitly to a business driver.

The structural difference matters because automation decisions involve money. A finding can be ignored. A recommendation can be debated. A classification with reproducible scoring logic is what survives executive scrutiny and finance review.

Six concrete deliverables: an Operational Truth map for each candidate process, Process Readiness scoring across the five dimensions, Four Paths classification, a driver alignment review, a written readiness report, and a sequenced recommendation for the qualified portfolio.

The deliverables are working documents, not slideware. They are written to be used directly by an internal team or external implementation partner without our involvement.

Three to six weeks for most mid-market engagements, depending on the size of the candidate portfolio and the complexity of the operational discovery. Engagements covering five to ten candidates run three to four weeks. Larger portfolios run longer.

The engagement is intentionally bounded. We do not scope-creep into implementation work. If the assessment finds that further engagement is warranted, that becomes a separate proposal with its own scope and timeline.

No. The engagement is designed to stand alone. Many clients use the assessment as a complete deliverable and execute on the results internally or with a different partner. The deliverables are written to enable that.

That said, if the assessment finds that deeper engagement would be valuable, we can scope one. The assessment is the starting point, not the contract.

That is a legitimate finding. Some organizations are not ready for automation in any meaningful way and would waste budget pursuing it. The honest output of the methodology, in that case, is to recommend process and governance work first. Automation comes later, when the foundation supports it.

We have produced this exact assessment more than once. The board reaction has consistently been that the discipline of saying "not yet" was what built credibility for the strategy that came after. An assessment that cannot say "not yet" is not Process Readiness. It is vendor enablement.

The free DRIFT self-assessment is a high-level diagnostic that helps an organization identify which DRIFT failure patterns are present in their operation. It produces a narrative about organizational tendencies, not a scored portfolio of candidate processes. It is genuinely useful and free for that reason.

The Process Readiness engagement is a paid, comprehensive assessment that scores specific candidate processes across the five dimensions, classifies them into the Four Paths, and produces actionable deliverables. The DRIFT assessment tells you whether you have a problem. Process Readiness tells you what to do about it, process by process.