A site for people who make organisational change stay
On either side of the table, you are judged on what still stands a year after go-live.
Here you will find what that work takes, set out in the 6 domains of the Transformation Capability Management standard. You will find a guide to use on a live engagement this week. And every Monday, the Capability Brief says what AI changed in the work.
Transformation Capability Management is a proposed standard, custodied by BusinessGPS, which wrote its first draft. BusinessGPS publishes capability.ai, and sells only on businessgps.ai.
On this site
A test to run on a live engagement: whose hours a change needs, on one page for the person who decides.
The Capability Brief, every Monday: what moved in the work, and what AI can now take off it.
Every piece published here, by date and by domain.
Who publishes this site, and why.
Someone else chose the date, and you are the one who has to make the change stay
The system, the date and the budget were fixed by other people. Making it hold falls to you. If you work inside the organisation, you do it in the gaps of a day job. If you were brought in, you do it before the statement of work ends.
The question is the same on both sides of the table. Will it still be working when the project team has gone?
That does not come down to luck or effort. It comes down to the standard’s six domains, and they are named below.
The first guide: find whose hours a change needs, and put one decision on one page
The first guide is a paper test of the hours a change needs from the people who will keep it running. It takes about 2 hours of your own time, and 3 short questions to the people who do the work and their managers.
You need the programme plan, the resource plan and the end date of each supplier’s contract.
On one illustrative programme, the plan put 46 hours a week on 4 people’s desks, plus 8 on a line of work nobody holds yet. That makes 54 hours needed. Their managers could account for 12 hours of usual work coming off, so the programme is 42 hours a week short. Nobody there lacked the skill, and nobody had done anything wrong. The hours were not there.
The test ends in one page with one decision on it. If you work inside the organisation, take it to your sponsor. If you were brought in, give it to your client. Either way you hand someone a number, and not an opinion.
What the work takes: the six domains of the standard
The Transformation Capability Management standard names what the work of making change stay takes, in six domains. They are below, in the standard’s order and in its words.
The standard is published for anyone to read.
Under each domain you can see what this site has on it. Where it has nothing yet, the line says so.
Change absorption and capacity
How much change the organisation can absorb, how that limit is measured, and how it sets the pace.
This site has a guide on it: Show where your programme is short of hours.
Transformation governance and decision rights
Who may decide what changes, in what order and at what pace, and who may slow or stop it.
This week’s Brief is on this one.
Work and operating-model redesign
Describing how work is really done, and redesigning it, before technology is applied to it.
Capability sovereignty and ownership
‘Capability sovereignty’ is an organisation’s ability to understand, specify, judge and run again the things it depends on. The domain covers which capabilities it owns and which it hires. It is not about where data is stored or whose law applies to it.
Value conversion and evidence
How spending on change becomes lasting strength, shown on 2 measures: the value created and the independence gained.
Social licence and absorption trust
‘Social licence’ is the continuing consent of the workforce and of others affected. The domain covers the trust without which a change is not absorbed.
Nothing here yet.
This week: what AI agents can take off the work, and what stays with you
Each Monday’s Brief tracks what AI agents can now take off this work, and what stays with the practitioner. This is where it stands in the Brief of 2 November 2026.
An AI agent is software set up to do one defined task, such as comparing 2 versions of a document. As things stand in that Brief, agents can take the repetitive work: comparing documents, preparing evidence packs and writing first drafts. The judgement calls stay with you, such as whether a failed test can wait until after go-live. Keep a record of each decision like that and its reason, because that record is the part of the work that stays when the agents change.
Get the Capability Brief by email, every Monday
One weekly email: what moved in the work of making change stay, and what AI can now take off it. Nothing is sold in it, and every weekly email has a link to unsubscribe.
One email asks you to confirm your address. No note is sent until you do. You can stop the email at any time. Your address is used for this email only. What is kept, and for how long, is in the privacy notice.
The record
The Capability Brief is this site’s weekly piece. The other series are kept here as they were published.
- SAP says 4 AI assistants, open to early adopters, are already supporting live ERP migrations. Sort their decisions before they start. Transformation governance and decision rights
- Accenture names 3 uses for its AI efficiencies, one of them for clients, and gives no figure for the clients' share Value conversion and evidence
- Strategically Ready, Operationally Unsure Change absorption and capacity
From the publisher
The publisher’s tools and services for putting this into practice on a live programme are at businessgps.ai.