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WHERE TO START

Start with the problem in front of you.

Choose what changed, how widely it reaches and when the decision must be made. Atlas connects the problem to an Execution Forecast, an Execution Reforecast or the method itself. Nothing is recorded or sent.

01 · What is changing?
02 · How widely does it reach?
03 · When must the decision be made?

Your recommendation

Choose one answer in each row.

The recommendation appears here. Nothing is recorded or sent.

Typical starting points

Six common reasons to begin, with a route for something different.

New strategy

The strategy is approved, but the decisions, roles and trade-offs needed to deliver it are not yet clear.

Recommended entry point

An Execution Forecast for the approved plan.

Start with the plan, not the people. Atlas translates the strategy into changed demands, then reads the organisation against them before milestones begin to move.

New ownership

New owners are asking the existing organisation to carry a plan it did not write.

Recommended entry point

An Execution Forecast for the first hundred days.

Put evidence under the new demands before the first irreversible move. Read each role in its new context rather than assuming past performance will transfer unchanged.

New operating model

The structure changed on paper, but decisions and handovers still follow the old routes.

Recommended entry point

An Execution Forecast for the target operating model.

Read the target model against real ownership, decision routes and working patterns. Assess leaders in the structure they are moving into, not the one they are leaving.

New pressure

A tighter deadline or cost demand is overloading the same roles, teams and decision routes.

Recommended entry point

A Reforecast if a baseline exists. A Forecast if it does not.

Start by finding where organisational capacity is exposed, which roles carry too much decision load, and which change to scope, sequence or ownership would release pressure first.

New dependency

Each team is delivering its own work, but the shared outcome keeps slipping between them.

Recommended entry point

An Execution Forecast focused on the shared outcome.

Map the cross-functional dependencies, define each handoff and identify the end-to-end outcome owner before the next execution bottleneck reaches the milestone.

New evidence

New information challenges an assumption behind the plan or an earlier Atlas judgement.

Recommended entry point

An Execution Reforecast against the recorded baseline.

Preserve the first forecast, test the new signal and update only the ratings, recommendations or review dates the evidence supports changing.

Something else

The decision is material, but none of the six common triggers describes it cleanly.

Recommended entry point

The Atlas method, then a bounded first question.

Start by defining the plan, the decision and the person who owns the consequence. The method explains how Atlas reads the organisation expected to carry it.