BECOME® PRACTICE

TURN YOUR ENTERPRISE INTO AN ULTRAPERFORMER.

BECOME® Practice guides organizations through complete BECOME® Programs that change the underlying business thinking, business logic and architecture of the enterprise — structurally resolving, in one integrated move, most of the problems organizations normally try to solve one by one.

Twenty-five years of research by scientist, author and entrepreneur Eric Bartels shows that most of the problems organizations normally treat as separate — strategy execution, alignment, decision-making, culture, innovation, customer value, employee engagement and performance — arise from that same underlying system.

That is why a BECOME® Program does not fix one problem after another. It changes the source from which many of them arise.

Traditional consultancies work by injecting intelligence, knowledge and expertise into an organization from the outside. BECOME® works the other way around. It activates the intelligence, knowledge and expertise the organization already has and enables its people to redesign the enterprise themselves.

The objective is not dependence on consultants, but an organization capable of continuously actualizing its own potential.

Why all the problems in your company may be one and the same →

What ultraperformance is, and the research it is based on.

WHAT A BECOME® PROGRAM IS

A BECOME® Program is one indivisible program: the comprehensive change management and implementation methodology through which the BECOME® Framework becomes the way an enterprise actually thinks and operates. As that underlying business logic and architecture changes, most of the problems companies normally try to solve one by one are resolved together at their source.

It begins with purpose. As Harvard Business School professor Cynthia Montgomery puts it: “Nothing is more important to the survival and success of a firm than why it exists, and what otherwise unmet needs it intends to fill. Purpose is where performance differences start.” Our own research into ultraperformers confirms it: these enterprises do not start with revenue, growth or market share, but with a deeply rooted purpose to create real value for their customers and, through that, for the world.

An authentic purpose is never a separately formulated purpose statement. It emerges from the DNA and therefore from the intrinsic identity of the enterprise. That is what the first phase of the Program finds, establishes and articulates.

Once an enterprise genuinely works from the inside out, familiar concepts such as strategy, business model, tactics and execution take on a fundamentally different meaning and are built from an entirely different logic. Together they form one fully integrated business logic and architecture, in which every layer follows directly from the previous one: strategy from DNA, tactics from strategy, and the operational way of working from tactics. This is precisely what the BECOME® Framework models, and precisely why the Program contains 4 integrated phases.

A BECOME® Practitioner facilitates a representative leadership coalition within the enterprise in building, implementing and actually putting this new business logic and architecture into use. Using the corresponding BECOME® Canvases, the coalition develops every component of the Framework, including the behavioral optimization required to make it work in practice. The Program continues until the new business logic and architecture are visibly at work in the daily thinking, choosing, collaborating and acting of the people in the enterprise.

ONE PROGRAM, FOUR CONSECUTIVE PHASES

01

IDENTITY

Finding, establishing and articulating the intrinsic DNA — and therefore the intrinsic identity and calling — of the enterprise. This is not the end point, but the foundation of the entire Program.

02

STRATEGY

Defining the corresponding strategy: the business model the leadership coalition intends to realize over the next three to five years.

03

TACTICS

Developing the tactics required to implement that strategy, including objectives, targets, approaches, KPIs and initiatives.

04

OPERATIONS

Executing the established plans and embedding the BECOME® Framework in the enterprise’s leadership, behavior and daily operations.

These are phases of one continuous journey, not separate services. Each phase follows directly from the previous one, so the Program is always undertaken as a whole. The first three phases combine intensive workshops, assignments and continuous leadership support for every member of the leadership coalition. The operational phase continues with leadership support and periodic follow-up sessions, during which the BECOME® Practitioner evaluates progress, provides feedback and facilitates the required behavioral change.

The objective is not dependence on external consultants, but an enterprise that can continue actualizing its own potential.

ONE BECOME®. WHEREVER YOUR PROGRAM IS DELIVERED.

BECOME® Practice operates through BECOME Alliance: one fully integrated enterprise built by entrepreneurial BECOME® Practitioners.

BECOME Alliance is not a franchise, a loose network of independent consultants or a collection of separate businesses. It has one DNA-driven identity, one strategy, one tactical and operational architecture, one body of knowledge, one methodology, one quality standard, one brand and one commercial infrastructure.

What is different is the way the people inside that enterprise are organized.

Instead of employment being the binding organizational principle, BECOME Alliance is built around entrepreneurship and partnership. Each Partner develops their own BECOME® Practice within the enterprise, with their own market, client relationships, responsibility and economic participation.

The autonomy belongs to the entrepreneur. The identity, strategy, architecture and enterprise are shared.

We call this organizational infrastructure the Dynamic Neural Network: maximum entrepreneurial autonomy inside one fully aligned enterprise.

For clients, the result is simple. Wherever a BECOME® Program is delivered and whichever Practitioner leads it, they work with one BECOME® — one identity, one methodology, one standard and one company.

HOW TO GET STARTED

01

EXPLORE

A confidential first conversation with a BECOME® Practitioner explores the enterprise’s questions, ambitions and current reality. The Practitioner assesses how far the enterprise is from the ultraperformance way of thinking and working. If the enterprise already thinks and works this way, a BECOME® Program is unnecessary. This currently applies to only 3% of enterprises. If a program is necessary, the BECOME® Practitioner explains why and presents a concrete proposal. The enterprise can then decide whether to proceed.

02

PREPARE

Once the enterprise has commissioned the BECOME® Program, the BECOME® Practitioner conducts a three-hour interview with the executive team to develop a clear understanding of the enterprise and its challenges and to prepare the program thoroughly. The executive team also determines the composition of the representative leadership coalition that will participate in the program, comprising both formal and informal leaders.

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IMPLEMENT

The BECOME® Practitioner provides every member of the leadership coalition with the information and resources required to prepare for the BECOME® Program. The Practitioner subsequently guides the coalition through the complete program until the BECOME® Framework is embedded in the way the enterprise thinks and works.

BECOME® PROGRAM BOOKLET

A complete overview of the BECOME® Program.

The 32-page BECOME® Program Booklet explains the four phases, the pricing structure and the principles behind the Program. Download it to share with colleagues or to prepare for a conversation with a BECOME® Practitioner — or order the printed edition for €4.95, postage included.

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BECOME® Program Booklet
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