The Future-State Distance Model

Measuring the journey between the approved picture and Monday morning.

The model

List the changes required to move from today's process to the intended one. Include data, access, training and the retirement of old arrangements. The distance is expressed through those changes rather than the number of arrows between two diagrams.

The working model
  1. 01Today
  2. 02Required changes
  3. 03Transition
  4. 04Destination

In practice

A target platform appears as one blue box. Reaching it requires migrations, revised controls and a decision about a small country operation that uses neither current system. The distance model brings that work back onto the page.

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