Diagnosis before engagement
Diagnosis before engagement is the practice of identifying which constraint binds a business before buying help to fix anything. It is what separates an engagement that installs the right system from one that installs a well-built system in the wrong place.
The cost of skipping it is rarely visible, because a competent provider will deliver competent work against whatever brief they are given. The waste shows up a quarter later as effort that produced no additional output.
It also changes what you should buy. An owner who can name their constraint needs installation. An owner who cannot needs the cheaper diagnostic step first, which a peer group or a coach can often supply.
How Hydra uses it
Hydra runs the four-constraint test before proposing a build, and re-tests each quarter, because fixing one constraint always promotes another.
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