three-horizons

Manages growth and innovation across the Three Horizons (McKinsey): Horizon 1 (the mature core), Horizon 2 (emerging businesses being built into the next core), and Horizon 3 (nascent options on the future). Catches the failure where the core starves the future; places initiatives into horizons, checks whether the portfolio funds all three at once, and prescribes how each should be managed.

The three horizons, the balance and pipeline logic, and the pitfalls live in references/three-horizons.md. Load that file before analyzing. The horizons are stages of maturity, not calendar periods; keep that distinction.

When to use

The user wants to see whether an organization is investing in its future as well as its present, to plan an innovation or growth portfolio, or to diagnose why the future pipeline is thin. The unit is an organization or business and its set of initiatives.

Language

Conduct the session and write the report in the language the user is writing in. The reference file is English; keep the framework keyed to it regardless of output language.

Inputs

• ORGANIZATION (required): the organization or business in scope.
• INITIATIVES (optional but valuable): the current and proposed businesses, products, and bets. If not given, work with the user to list them, since the model places real initiatives, not abstractions.
• CONTEXT (optional): the growth ambition, the pace of the industry (which compresses or stretches the horizons), and the investment available.