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Build-maintain-launch responsibility map
A practical matrix / portfolio addressing this question: Who owns building, maintaining, and bringing each capability to market?
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Build-maintain-launch responsibility map vs Commercial role-to-jobs map
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Commercial role-to-jobs map
A practical matrix / portfolio addressing this question: Which jobs must each commercial role perform across discovery, selection, commitment, launch, and growth?
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Who owns building, maintaining, and bringing each capability to market?
Which jobs must each commercial role perform across discovery, selection, commitment, launch, and growth?
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Build-maintain-launch responsibility map
- Anchor both axes in the build maintain launch responsibility map with observable evidence before placing any item. The value comes from assigning differentiated responses to positions, not from producing a visually tidy grid.
- Name the live case. Write the specific situation to which the build maintain launch responsibility map is being applied and the decision, output, or behavior that may change.
- Anchor the axes. Define evidence based low and high anchors for capability rows and lifecycle columns before placing any item.
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- Do not read boundaries in the build maintain launch responsibility map as objective facts. Weak axis definitions or forced placements create false precision and can conceal meaningful differences within a quadrant.
Commercial role-to-jobs map
- Anchor both axes in the commercial role to jobs map with observable evidence before placing any item. The value comes from assigning differentiated responses to positions, not from producing a visually tidy grid.
- Name the live case. Write the specific situation to which the commercial role to jobs map is being applied and the decision, output, or behavior that may change.
- Anchor the axes. Define evidence based low and high anchors for journey stages and jobs before placing any item.
Watch for
- Do not read boundaries in the commercial role to jobs map as objective facts. Weak axis definitions or forced placements create false precision and can conceal meaningful differences within a quadrant.
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