What is the Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design course about?
Even well-funded initiatives stall when roles, decisions, and workflows aren’t clearly defined across domains. Leaders are expected to deliver integration, but aren’t given the tools to design how teams actually operate together. The result? Misalignment, delayed outcomes, and eroded trust across functions.
What situation is the Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design for?
Even well-funded initiatives stall when roles, decisions, and workflows aren’t clearly defined across domains. Leaders are expected to deliver integration, but aren’t given the tools to design how teams actually operate together. The result? Misalignment, delayed outcomes, and eroded trust across functions.
Who is the Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design course for?
Business and technology professionals leading or supporting cross-functional initiatives, program managers, operating leads, transformation architects, and senior engineers stepping into broader influence.
Who is the Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design course not for?
This is not for individual contributors focused solely on task execution, or for executives seeking high-level strategy without implementation detail.
What do you take away from the Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design course?
Design an end-to-end operating model that aligns stakeholders across business and technology Implement governance structures that scale with program complexity Map capabilities and accountabilities to eliminate operating gaps Integrate feedback loops for continuous operating-model refinement Apply proven patterns for managing cross-functional change with minimal friction.
How does this map to your situation?
Designing a new cross-functional program Scaling an existing initiative across teams Recovering from misalignment or failure Integrating new technology or business capabilities.
What's included with your purchase?
12 modules with 12 chapters each (144 chapters) Downloadable templates and worked examples for every module Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access 30-day money-back guarantee.
What does the Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design cover on delivery and format?
Format: Text-based modules and chapters in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every chapter, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access. Time investment: Approximately 45, 60 hours of focused learning, designed for completion over 6, 8 weeks with flexible pacing.
Closely related courses: Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design for Senior Leaders, Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design for Compliance, Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design for Regulated, Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design for Acquisitive.
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A tailored course, built for your situation
Enterprise-Class Operating-Model Design for Cross-Functional Programs
Build scalable, resilient operating models that align technology and business teams for enterprise impact
The situation this course is for
Even well-funded initiatives stall when roles, decisions, and workflows aren’t clearly defined across domains. Leaders are expected to deliver integration, but aren’t given the tools to design how teams actually operate together. The result? Misalignment, delayed outcomes, and eroded trust across functions.
Who this is for
Business and technology professionals leading or supporting cross-functional initiatives, program managers, operating leads, transformation architects, and senior engineers stepping into broader influence.
Who this is not for
This is not for individual contributors focused solely on task execution, or for executives seeking high-level strategy without implementation detail.
What you walk away with
- Design an end-to-end operating model that aligns stakeholders across business and technology
- Implement governance structures that scale with program complexity
- Map capabilities and accountabilities to eliminate operating gaps
- Integrate feedback loops for continuous operating-model refinement
- Apply proven patterns for managing cross-functional change with minimal friction
The 12 modules (with all 144 chapters)
- Defining the operating model lifecycle
- Core components: structure, process, people, technology
- Differentiating strategy from operations
- Operating-model maturity frameworks
- Enterprise vs. program-level models
- Common failure patterns and root causes
- Designing for adaptability
- Stakeholder alignment fundamentals
- Operating-model success metrics
- The role of leadership in model sustainability
- Integration with enterprise architecture
- Balancing standardization and autonomy
- Governance vs. management: clarifying roles
- Designing decision rights matrices
- Cadence design: reviews, checkpoints, syncs
- Escalation pathways and resolution protocols
- Role clarity for PMOs and leads
- Balancing central oversight and team autonomy
- Governance tooling and tracking
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Conflict resolution frameworks
- Performance feedback integration
- Adapting governance as programs scale
- Auditing governance effectiveness
- Identifying core program capabilities
- Capability mapping techniques
- RACI and beyond: modern accountability models
- Role definition for hybrid functions
- Skills gap analysis across teams
- Cross-training and knowledge sharing
- Defining handoff protocols
- Managing role ambiguity
- Aligning incentives across functions
- Capability maturity assessment
- Scaling roles with program growth
- Documentation standards for role clarity
- Workflow modeling fundamentals
- Identifying integration points
- Process standardization vs. customization
- Designing for asynchronous collaboration
- Toolchain alignment across teams
- Managing dependencies across functions
- Integrating agile and waterfall approaches
- Change request workflows
- Status reporting integration
- Automating handoffs and approvals
- Monitoring workflow health
- Optimizing for flow efficiency
- Defining outcome-based KPIs
- Leading vs. lagging indicators
- Balancing speed, quality, and risk metrics
- Cross-functional scorecard design
- Feedback loop architecture
- Real-time vs. periodic reporting
- Data sourcing and integrity
- Visualizing program health
- Using metrics for course correction
- Avoiding metric gaming
- Benchmarking against industry standards
- Iterating on measurement frameworks
- Anticipating sources of change
- Change impact assessment frameworks
- Operating-model stress testing
- Designing for modularity
- Change communication protocols
- Managing team reorientation
- Maintaining alignment during pivots
- Versioning operating models
- Change control integration
- Feedback from change events
- Recovery protocols for operating breakdowns
- Building organizational memory
- Stakeholder identification and segmentation
- Communication strategy design
- Tailoring messages by audience
- Engagement cadence planning
- Managing conflicting priorities
- Transparency vs. information overload
- Executive communication frameworks
- Feedback collection from stakeholders
- Managing expectations proactively
- Crisis communication planning
- Documenting alignment decisions
- Sustaining momentum through communication
- Understanding enterprise architecture domains
- Mapping operating model to EA layers
- Integration with TOGAF and Zachman
- Data architecture alignment
- Application portfolio coordination
- Technology standards enforcement
- Security and compliance integration
- Cloud operating model considerations
- Vendor and third-party integration
- Architecture review board alignment
- Change management coordination
- Lifecycle synchronization
- Risk identification in cross-functional programs
- Control framework integration
- Compliance requirement mapping
- Audit readiness by design
- Regulatory change adaptation
- Risk ownership assignment
- Control testing and validation
- Incident response integration
- Data privacy and governance
- Third-party risk management
- Reporting to risk and audit functions
- Continuous compliance monitoring
- Identifying reusable operating components
- Creating operating model blueprints
- Customization vs. standardization trade-offs
- Knowledge transfer frameworks
- Operating model version control
- Scaling governance structures
- Centralized vs. decentralized operating models
- Managing program portfolio alignment
- Resource sharing across programs
- Cross-program dependency management
- Scaling through automation
- Measuring operating model reuse
- Implementation planning fundamentals
- Phased rollout strategies
- Pilot design and evaluation
- Stakeholder onboarding
- Training and enablement design
- Tooling setup and integration
- Documentation rollout
- Feedback collection during launch
- Addressing early resistance
- Performance baseline establishment
- Sustaining adoption post-launch
- Post-implementation review
- Assessing operating model maturity
- Identifying evolution opportunities
- Feedback-driven refinement
- Benchmarking against best practices
- Incorporating lessons learned
- Adapting to strategic shifts
- Technology-driven operating changes
- Organizational learning integration
- Leadership development for model stewards
- Scaling operating model innovation
- Managing technical and process debt
- Planning for next-generation models
How this maps to your situation
- Designing a new cross-functional program
- Scaling an existing initiative across teams
- Recovering from misalignment or failure
- Integrating new technology or business capabilities
Before vs. after
What's included with your purchase
- 12 modules with 12 chapters each (144 chapters)
- Downloadable templates and worked examples for every module
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Delivery and format
- Course and learning environment access provisioned within 24 hours of purchase
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
Format: Text-based modules and chapters in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every chapter, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.
Time investment: Approximately 45, 60 hours of focused learning, designed for completion over 6, 8 weeks with flexible pacing.
How this compares to the alternatives
Unlike generic project management courses or high-level strategy frameworks, this course delivers implementation-grade operating-model design tools specifically for cross-functional, enterprise-scale programs.
Frequently asked
Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.