RoundMap® Stack

RoundMap® Stack

In order to comprehend the comprehensive mapping system of our framework, we have developed the RoundMap® Stack.

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The Integrated Customer Lifecycle™ focuses on horizontal integration at the bottom of the stack, driven by cross-functional collaboration. The stack layers, from the Experience Matrix™ up to the Business Model Matrix™, integrate through vertical alignment. This theory is based on correlating attributes between aspects of each layer that need to be aligned to optimize the operation. It has led to a strategy-execution arrangement known as the RoundMap® Full Stack.
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Case: IBM

Before 1974, IBM had a product-centric business model. Its goal was to grow market share based on a broad portfolio of IT-related products. Big Blue was a household name, and marketing was about brand experience. From 1976 onwards, while facing increased competition, the firm shifted its operations by focusing on higher-value, more profitable markets. Its shift began by being perceived as customer-intimate, followed by a full shift towards a customer-centric business. In 1994, the firm reported the most significant operating loss ever recorded in corporate history: Customer Centricity should never be applied without a companion business model. 

However, the company recovered miraculously by using its in-depth customer insights to shift to a resource-centric operation, utilizing a vast team of multi-vendor system integrators (acquired from PwC’s consultancy branch). Seeing these people in action was all customers needed. Today, IBM is about to make another shift now that system integrators are no longer in high demand: it is shifting (clockwise) towards a network-centric operation, based on Watson and IBM Cloud.

Author

  • edwinkorver

    Edwin Korver is a polymath and systems thinker dedicated to integral philosophy and complex business transformation. Through his company CROSS/SILO and pioneering framework RoundMap®, he has long tackled the organizational silos that fragment businesses from the outside in. Now, with MeshMind, Edwin goes deeper — addressing the mental silos that give rise to organizational ones in the first place. He envisions a future where business harmonizes profit with purpose, common sense, and EQuitability — a vision he brings to life through the power of storytelling and his forthcoming books, Leading from the Whole and Business Regenerated.

    View all posts Vision-forward Systems Thinker · CEO, CROSS/SILO · Creator of RoundMap® and MeshMind · Author of Leading from the Whole
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