Cursus: a method for improving business results
Cursus helps organisations understand why they struggle to adapt. Most, if not all, organisations understand their challenges. Far fewer respond effectively to them.
Judgement matters. Information does not make decisions - people do. Judgement determines what people notice, what they ignore and where they focus their effort. Strong judgement supports adaptation. Weak judgement often leads to organisations to solve symptoms rather than causes.
Adaptive Capacity. Most organisations can explain their challenges. Fewer of them can respond effectively to them.
Intelligence explains reality. Adaptive Capacity changes behaviour in response to reality. That is the distinction at the heart of Cursus.
How Cursus Works
Three questions:
Sense; what are we no longer seeing?
Diagnose: whaere is value being lost?
Adapt: can the orgnisation correct itself?
Start with the right problem. Because the most expensive change programme is usually the one aimed at the wrong issue.
From symptoms to causes. Most effort goes into visible symptoms - repeating issues, escalation up the line, pace, morale, technology that hasn’t delivered. The question to keep asking is: Why?
How work really gets done. Performance is decided in the critical worklows that deliver the strategy and create value.