Leadership agenda
- First: Partner programme launch.
- The order is sensitive to: Needs executive involvement (counted half as much).
Executive Intelligence · Enterprise Health and CEO Command Center
Executive Priority Engine
Ranks what needs executive attention across modules by stated, inspectable rules (overdue, severity, deadline, owner).
Demonstration: Brightwater Software (fictional) · Software. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Brightwater Software (fictional)
- Who is asking
- Chief of staff to the CEO
- Industry
- Software
- What happened
- Twelve initiatives compete for the executive team's attention this quarter, and the leadership meeting has time for four.
The question asked
Which initiatives should the executive team spend its time on this quarter?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Initiative register registerInitiatives with owner, value and status.
- Strategic objectives documentWhat the board has asked for this year.
- Reads
- The initiative register and the objectives.
- Does not read
- Detailed project plans or personal performance data.
- Permission
- Chief of staff read access to the register.
- Who sees it
- The CEO and the executive committee.
Try it
Change how much each criterion matters. The ranking is recomputed, and the page tells you whether the leader would survive a different judgement.
- 1Partner programme launchSlipping; two owners.Value to the objectives: 4Urgency (a date is close): 3Needs executive involvement: 5Risk of drift without attention: 54.23
- 2Enterprise customer onboarding redesignLarge accounts waiting.Value to the objectives: 5Urgency (a date is close): 4Needs executive involvement: 3Risk of drift without attention: 44.05
- 3Pricing change for the mid-marketCross-functional; contested.Value to the objectives: 4Urgency (a date is close): 3Needs executive involvement: 5Risk of drift without attention: 33.86
- 4Security assessment preparationDate set by a customer.Value to the objectives: 3Urgency (a date is close): 5Needs executive involvement: 2Risk of drift without attention: 53.55
- 5Finance system upgradeVendor-led.Value to the objectives: 3Urgency (a date is close): 4Needs executive involvement: 2Risk of drift without attention: 32.95
- 6Office relocationOn track, owner trusted.Value to the objectives: 2Urgency (a date is close): 2Needs executive involvement: 1Risk of drift without attention: 11.55
The leader would change if Needs executive involvement (counted half as much). Treat the order as sensitive to that judgement.
Leader's margin over the next option: 0.18. The leader can change under another weighting.
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
With these weights the top priority for executive time is: Partner programme launch (score 4.23).
Each initiative is scored on what the executive team uniquely adds, not just on importance [S1][S2]. The order is could change under the weightings tested; it would change if Needs executive involvement (counted half as much).
An initiative that is important but running well needs less of the team's time than one that is merely worthwhile but drifting. The weight on 'needs executive involvement' is what separates the two.
Relies on: S1 · Initiative register, 12 itemsS2 · Board objectives for the year
Review and approval
The CEO decides. Approving sets the agenda of the leadership meeting. It does not stop or start any initiative.
Ready for the reviewer.
In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- Scores are the chief of staff's judgement.
- The ranking says where attention helps most, not which work matters least.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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