OPTIC glossary.
The terms the model uses in fixed senses, defined in a sentence or two each.
- Praveg OPTIC Maturity Model (OPTIC MM)
- A practitioner-derived organisational maturity model with five pillars, twenty-five dimensions and a thirty-five-item diagnostic, read against a calibrated target. The first released component of PBAS.
- PBAS
- The Praveg Business Acceleration System: the overarching system within which the OPTIC Maturity Model lives. It has three layers: Assess, Accelerate and Sustain.
- Lens
- The instrument as a whole. OPTIC is one lens for examining an organisation.
- Pillar
- One of the five capability areas the lens examines: Organisation & People, Process, Technology, Improvement and Context.
- Dimension
- One of the twenty-five specific capabilities that get assessed, five per pillar, coded O1 to C5.
- Maturity level
- One of five levels on an absolute, behavioural scale: 1 Reactive, 2 Developing, 3 Defined, 4 Managed, 5 Optimising.
- Behavioural anchor ladder
- Five one-sentence descriptions of what a dimension looks like at each level. The organisation sits at the highest level whose description is true and for which every lower level is also true.
- Target Maturity Profile (TMP)
- The explicit, per-pillar statement of the level an organisation needs, set in the Calibrate step from four drivers. Recorded as a Now profile and a Next-Horizon profile.
- Calibration drivers
- The four readings that move a target from its baseline of three: regulatory exposure, scale band, trajectory and business-model complexity. Targets are capped at five and floored at two.
- Next-Horizon profile
- The target profile for twelve to twenty-four months out, given the organisation's trajectory.
- Limiting dimension
- The lowest-rated dimension in a pillar. It is always reported alongside the pillar's level, because it is where the pillar's real story usually lives.
- Median, not average
- A pillar's level is the median of its dimension levels: the middle value with five, the lower of the two middle values with four. It cannot be dragged up by one flattering dimension.
- Red-flag check
- One of ten yes-or-no checks, two per pillar, used in OPTIC Deep. A flag that fires caps its pillar at level two until it is cleared.
- OPTIC Rapid
- The twenty-five ladders, self-rated without evidence. Produces a provisional radar and a lead-pillar hypothesis. Used for a first encounter and for quarterly pulse-checks.
- OPTIC Deep
- All thirty-five items, evidenced, rated independently by more than one assessor and reconciled in calibration. Takes two to four weeks for a mid-sized organisation.
- Contested-item protocol
- The rule that any rating may be challenged during calibration, but only with evidence, and that the challenge and its resolution are recorded.
- Radar view
- The chart of current maturity against the Target Maturity Profile, drawn as two lines. The finding is the space between them, in either direction.
- Over-maturity
- A pillar above its target: more formality than the organisation needs. It is a real and expensive condition, and a candidate for simplification.
- Interdependency map
- The observed tendency for stress to travel along a chain: Organisation to Process to Technology to Improvement and back to Organisation, with Context sizing every target.
- Priority Lens
- The scoring rule that decides where improvement starts: Priority Score = (Gap x Impact) + Dependency, each rated 0 to 3.
- Lead pillar
- The pillar whose improvement work starts first and receives the largest share of change capacity in the first cycle: the one that, if moved, moves the most.
- Enabling floor
- The minimum level a support pillar must reach for the lead pillar's improvement to hold.
- Stabilise
- The role of a pillar with a gap but a low Priority Score: held at its current level with minimum viable governance until the next cycle.
- Simplify
- The role of a pillar above its target: surplus formality is scheduled for removal, usually in the second cycle.
- OPTIC Cycle
- The six-step working method: Calibrate, Assess, Prioritise, Design, Implement, Sustain.
- Capability Growth Delta
- The change in dimension ratings from one assessment cycle to the next. One of the twenty-five OPTIC KPIs.
- Outcome Model
- A consulting engagement in which the partner stays through implementation until the outcomes are produced, as opposed to a Recommendation Model that ends with the report.
Start with a conversation.
A discovery call to read the four drivers and decide whether OPTIC Rapid or OPTIC Deep is the right first step for your organisation.