“Convert to the most succinct and actionable views... the basis of future monthly Enterprise Reviews.”
Harsh Kachhy, January 3, 2025
This is the disciplined form of the scoreboard Harsh asked for in January 2025.
Reporting was never the outcome. Better decisions are.
Every quarter, this group decides eight things about the sustaining portfolio, on evidence instead of anecdote.
If you would say it differently, write your version on the line below. We build from your sentence.
We start here Monday, August 17, 10 am ET
Page 2 carries all eight, with the line where each one gets settled today.
A measure earns a place only if it would change one of the eight, and can be produced from data that exists today.
A monthly dashboard leaders read on their own time. A quarterly hour spent only on what needs a decision.
The decisions Harsh’s 2025 “Big Questions” were driving at, made explicit.
The list is the yardstick for every candidate measure: one that would not change any of these gets documented and retired. The three that no one owns today are marked.
| The decision | The question it settles | Where it gets settled today |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Continue, pause, or kill No owner |
Which sustaining projects stop consuming resources? | No forum. Savings are still claimed against canceled projects. |
| 02 Resource shifts across business units | Where does constrained engineering and regulatory capacity move next quarter, and at whose expense? | Settled business unit to business unit, case by case. |
| 03 Escalation of absorbed impact No owner |
What should no longer be absorbed quietly across business units? | Absorbed, not decided. Real impact, and no measure caught it. |
| 04 Backfill and capacity commitments | Does workload evidence justify filling open roles, or shifting scope instead? | Argued role by role, without workload evidence. |
| 05 Cost-improvement target commitment No owner |
What is the annual target, and what closes the gap when the pipeline underruns it? | This year’s target was still unagreed in July. |
| 06 Obsolescence and supplier-risk posture | Which known time-bombs get funded proactively, and which are accepted as reactive risk? | Decided when a supplier forces the timing. |
| 07 Standard-setting | Does a practice proven in one business unit become the RemainCo standard, and on what schedule? | Spreads by example, or does not spread. |
| 08 Prior-commitment accountability | What did the room decide last quarter, and did it happen? | Revisited informally, when someone remembers to ask. |
| Your additions | ||
Not owned here: individual project management, which business-unit leads own; monthly status absorption, which the dashboards own; and build and tooling choices, which the build owner and IT own.
Cross out what your room does not own, write in what is missing, and mark any “today” line that reads wrong. It is our reading, not yours.
We work from your version Monday, August 17, 10 am ET
Two in direction and delivery, two in risk. Enough to run a credible first quarterly this year. Of the other eight, four need one defined step and four wait on a linkage never traced end to end.
| Candidate measure | Decision # | Data | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| A · Direction and delivery · are we getting better? | |||
| M1 Portfolio completion velocity “Improve ratio of completed to active projects, 6% to 10%.” |
01 · 02 | Now | Harsh 2025 |
| M2 Aging and backlog trend | 01 · 04 | Now | Harsh 2025 |
| M3 Cycle time by project class “Improve on-time completion, 40% to 60%, on A/B/C projects.” |
04 · 07 | Step | Harsh 2025 |
| M4 Recurrence rate after close | 03 · 06 | Step | New |
| B · Risk and anticipation · what is coming? | |||
| M5 At-risk project exposure, risk-weighted | 01 · 02 | Step | Harsh 2025 |
| M6 Supplier and obsolescence exposure | 06 | Now | Harsh 2025 |
| M7 Compliance and CAPA-linked strain | 03 · 06 | Now | Harsh 2025 |
| M8 Absorbed-impact watch | 03 | Build | |
| C · Capacity and value · can we take on more? | |||
| M9 Reactive versus proactive load split | 02 · 04 | Step | Harsh 2025 |
| M10 Margin-improvement pipeline | 05 | Build | Harsh 2025 |
| M11 Realized margin improvement | 05 · 08 | Build | Harsh 2025 |
| D · Financial · where this lands | |||
| M12 Cost of sustaining, and impacted-SKU revenue at risk | 01 · 05 · 06 | Build | Harsh 2025 |
| Your measures | |||
Write your KPIs into the open rows, on our two tests: it changes one of the eight, and it comes from data that exists today. Cross out any you would retire.
We work from your version Monday, August 17, 10 am ET
Twenty projects traced by hand from record to impacted SKU to the financial system. Whatever traces cleanly is stated as a number, with its range.
Once the linkage proves out in the closest business unit, cost of sustaining and revenue at risk join the headline set.