Chapter 3: The 5x5 Business Map

A department chart tells you who reports to whom. A tool inventory tells you what you own. Neither gives you a complete picture of how work moves through the business, especially when it crosses several teams.

The Compass 5x5 map brings five business systems together with five operating elements. Their intersections create twenty-five cells. That gives people a shared way to describe the company without needing a separate project for every box. Use the view to discover candidate opportunities; you'll compare those with a different instrument, the scoring rubric in Chapter 5.