Companion pack · Free
These tools digitize the Discussion Questions from Buried by Competence. The book stands alone. This pack lets you leave with a named malady, a leakage number, a mandate test, a liberation shortlist, and a first cut of your three-layer architecture.
Advisory and workshops deepen customised implementation. They are optional — not information withheld from the reader.
Absorption, invisibility, the board pack problem, the vendor blind spot, and the talent spiral. Find which is most severe right now.
Run the Diagnostic →Separate operational and strategic finance, then map work into Entity Anchor, Shared Service Core, and Strategic Finance.
Run the Sorter →Rate the six FORGE™ levers, put a conservative leakage number on the table, and test Mandate, Resource, and Accountability.
Run the check →Draft a falsifiable causal chain — finance choice → organisational outcome → financial result — then run the Surprise Test.
Open the canvas →Name the operational burdens that must be removed before elevation can stick. Stop, Automate, Transfer, Reduce, Outsource — and the 40-hour threshold.
Run the Liberation Audit →Is technology creating capacity for strategic finance — or burying the function under software? Eight statements; one verdict.
Run the diagnostic →Eight behavioural statements. Place the function as Scorekeeper, Developing Controller, Advisor, or Value Architect — then go deeper in the Health Check.
Get your stage label →Twenty questions across best practice and qualifying context. A scored readout of where the function is buried — and which support path fits.
Start the Health Check →