Transformation Readiness
Know what needs to change before the transformation starts.
Latent Variables runs adaptive one-to-one conversations across the people affected by the transformation and tests the assumptions in the plan against the conditions they will encounter. Leadership receives a detailed readiness diagnosis, the specific risks and dependencies that matter to execution, and the changes to make before rollout.
The readiness assessment at a glance
The complete readout arrives within 6 days of fieldwork start.
15 minutes per person, scheduled around their work.
Conversations run in parallel rather than in sequence. A coordinated population completes fieldwork in 48 hours.
About 2 hours in total: the objective, the population, and the context of the planned transformation.
Up to 2,000 participants in a single wave.
Each conversation adapts to the participant, and synthesis begins as evidence accumulates. Leadership does not need to dedicate a cross-functional team to running the research.
What leadership gets from the readiness diagnostic
Every conversation contributes to the same campaign context, so a dependency raised by one team is examined with the people responsible for the related work. The assessment evaluates the categories below and reports the ones the evidence supports.
Readiness by team and population
Where readiness differs across teams, roles, locations, and stakeholder groups, instead of one aggregate number for the organization.
Material execution conditions
The capacity, capability, ownership, incentives, leadership support, process conditions, and dependencies material to the planned change.
Assumptions that need to change
Where the transformation plan assumes conditions that the evidence does not support.
Dependencies across teams
Where one team's ability to execute depends on another team's process, decision, expertise, timing, or resources.
Competing-change exposure
Where the same populations are absorbing other initiatives or operating requirements that could affect the planned change.
Local exceptions
Conditions that require a different implementation approach for a specific group rather than a company-wide response.
How findings become changes to the transformation plan
Where the evidence supports it, the diagnosis converts into materials leadership can use directly:
The assessment stands on its own. If leadership makes changes before rollout, a later read returns to the same teams with the earlier evidence preserved and shows whether the conditions changed, on the same 6-day turnaround.
What makes Latent Variables different
Tests the plan before rollout
Latent Variables tests the assumptions in the transformation plan with the people who will carry it out. This shows where the plan expects capacity, capability, ownership, or support that may not exist yet.
Finds risks hidden by an overall readiness score
The diagnostic shows how readiness differs across teams, roles, locations, and stakeholder groups. It surfaces cross-team dependencies, competing initiatives, and local exceptions that an organization-wide score can obscure.
Changes the plan before execution begins
Each finding is connected to the part of the transformation it affects. Leadership receives specific changes to sequencing, ownership, workstreams, and team-level interventions before those conditions become execution problems.
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