ConsultiQ Insights

Business Series

Six practical ways to look at the same business.

The Business Series is where ConsultiQ writes about how growing businesses actually work. It starts with the 6P Framework — our way of looking at the whole business, because a business isn't a collection of separate departments and everything affects something else.

The six dimensions

The six Ps give us six different ways to understand the same business.

  1. Principles

    What do we stand for?

    The beliefs and behaviours that shape decisions, culture, governance and the lines you're not prepared to cross.

  2. Purpose

    What are we trying to achieve, and why?

    Where the business is heading, who it creates value for and what its owners actually want from it.

  3. People

    Have we got the right people doing the right things?

    Capability, accountability, leadership and whether the organisation can work without depending on a handful of heroes.

  4. Process

    Does the business work reliably without constant heroics?

    How work moves, where it slows down, what depends on memory and whether your systems make good work easier.

  5. Performance

    Do we know what's working, what isn't and why?

    The financial and operational signals that tell you what's happening and help you decide what to do about it.

  6. Perspective

    Are we looking far enough ahead?

    Opportunity, risk and the changes that could affect what the business needs to become next.

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