Executive summary
A diagnostic that tests whether an organization is capable of deciding, and then executing, which products should grow, change, or retire, before it commits to a rationalization program.
What is inside
What the assessment covers
The asset walks an assessment team through eight capability dimensions that determine whether portfolio decisions will be evidence-based and executable, from product economics and usage evidence to dependency knowledge, decision rights, and execution capacity. It supplies the scoring approach, a readiness gate, and the register that turns gaps into a remediation plan, plus a worked example, a failure case, and calibration exercises for communities of practice.
- When to test readiness: after the baseline diagnostic, before the business case
- Eight capability dimensions that decide whether rationalization decisions will hold
- Anchored scoring that two independent assessors can apply consistently
- A readiness index with an explicit proceed, remediate, or defer gate
- A gap register that converts weak scores into owned remediation actions
- Calibration practice for scoring the same case across a team
- A worked synthetic example and a failure case showing what skipping the step costs