Methodology
STELAR: six vital signs of an institution's organizational health.
ISEE applies industrial-engineering discipline to organizations the way medicine applies vital signs to a patient, measuring the cross-cutting conditions that determine whether strategy actually produces outcomes.
The framework
Six dimensions. One connected read.
Most tools score departments in isolation. STELAR measures the connective tissue between them, because the condition driving your symptoms almost never lives inside a single department.
Whether a clear, shared direction exists, and whether it reaches the people who execute it. Strategy that lives only in the cabinet is a symptom generator.
Whether the right people are in the right roles with the authority to act. Turnover is often a talent-condition signal, not a compensation problem.
Whether decisions become action across departments. Most enrollment, budget, and AI failures are execution conditions wearing other names.
Whether leadership and governance share a definition of their roles. Board conflict is a leadership-alignment condition before it is a personality conflict.
Whether decision rights, ownership, and follow-through are clear. Ambiguous accountability quietly produces most repeated failures.
Whether the institution absorbs shocks (funding cuts, leadership change, new mandates) without losing coherence.
How the read is produced
A structured process, not a survey.
ISEE's diagnostic process moves from confidential evidence collection to cross-cutting analysis to a single written diagnosis. The specific scoring methodology — how evidence is weighted and how the root condition is isolated — is proprietary to ISEE and is walked through in detail during scoping, not published publicly.
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