Your organisation spends considerable resources defining strategy, recruiting talent, deploying tools. And yet something resists. Leadership wants innovation, but processes slow things down. Teams want autonomy, but the organisation imposes centralised control. This is not a problem of will, nor of competence — it is a problem of coherence between levels. The IOD Core R6 model is designed to identify precisely where that coherence breaks down, and to restore it in a structured way.
Unlike traditional consulting approaches — often lengthy, abstract, and whose deliverables end up gathering dust — the R6 model is built for immediate action. It focuses on observable behavioural and organisational dimensions, enabling pragmatic adjustments without waiting for lengthy audit cycles.
By eliminating friction between what is asked and what is realistically achievable, it removes wasted resources and unproductive effort. The model prioritises concrete results and the protection of ongoing production — a logic that translates directly into hidden costs avoided.
The market is full of methods for defining strategy or managing talent. Few work across all three levels simultaneously — and that is precisely where misalignment takes hold.
R6 ensures that every strategic decision (S) finds its engine in the organisation (O) and its realisation in the individual (I). What the model calls isomorphism — using the same analytical axes at every level, from the executive committee to the front line — is what prevents the message from getting lost in the layers of the organisation. What is decided at the top is legible at the bottom. What blocks at the bottom is visible at the top.
A decision made in the boardroom only produces results if it finds its relay in the organisation, and then in individual behaviours. That is the link the R6 model secures.
In an increasingly complex environment, intuition alone is no longer enough to guarantee execution. The R6 model provides the indicators needed to steer your organisation's maturity — and to ensure that every individual action feeds into the overall strategic value.