Assemble Workflow

The MITRE Assemble™ workflow, illustrated below, provides team members the tools and methods to quickly iterate through the design, standup, operation, and maturation of a collaborative that is specifically designed to address your challenge.

Assemble workflow steps shown as 8 pentagons surrounding concentric circles, which are labeled trust and collaborative management. Steps include: 1. Assess Fit: Validate need for collaborative approach. Determine that the challenge is Whole of Nation or similar in scope and requires a collaborative effort to realize benefit. 2. Listen & Engage: Engage a broadening set of parties. Gather input, listen deeply, check and correct assumptions, begin to co-create, and prepare to engage relevant parties more broadly. 3. Envision: Co-create unifying vision and value propositions. Co-create an initial, compelling vision and associated value propositions that drive participation, resourcing, and action. Iteratively refine as parties join and the ecosystem changes. 4. Strategize: Co-create initiative strategy. Co-create a strategy to align efforts around parties’ shared vision. Establish initial goals, success criteria, areas of focus, operating norms, and a resourcing approach. 5. Plan: Plan initiative execution. Collaboratively plan how to execute the strategy. Co-create collaborative environment and infrastructure. Define requirements, approaches, goals, and roadmap. Secure resources. 6. Experiment & Deliver: Iteratively work and learn together. Initiate viable and valuable collaboration. Establish shared tools and methods, test and refine the collaborative’s operating model, and build momentum. 7. Measure & Share: Communicate observable impact. Co-design measures of progress and impact. Collect qualitative and quantitative input to measure and monitor performance. Communicate often and openly. 8. Adapt: Iteratively optimize impact. Adapt to emerging needs and conditions. Use learnings to iterate and drive innovation and value. Consider more significant transitions, transfers, or endings as the situation warrants. 

MITRE Assemble™ enables you to achieve collaborative success factors such as:

  • a compelling, shared vision that can only be accomplished via collaboration
  • a transparent, shared decision-making approach to overcome stovepipes and bias
  • collaborative action to generate clear, tangible value to all parties and the public
  • trust and shared accountability based on mutually developed safeguards
  • active parties that bring commitment and competence beyond a contractual relationship
  • a backbone organization that provides ongoing support (as needed)

imageAssess Fit

Validate need for collaborative approach

Determine that the challenge is Whole of Nation or similar in scope and requires a collaborative effort to realize benefit.

imageListen & Engage

Engage a broadening set of parties

Gather input, listen deeply, check and correct assumptions, begin to co-create, and prepare to engage relevant parties more broadly.

imageEnvision

Co-create unifying vision and value propositions

Co-create an initial, compelling vision and associated value propositions that drive participation, resourcing, and action. Iteratively refine as parties join and the ecosystem changes.

imageStrategize

Co-create initiative strategy

Co-create a strategy to align efforts around parties’ shared vision. Establish initial goals, success criteria, areas of focus, operating norms, and a resourcing approach.

imagePlan

Plan initiative execution

Collaboratively plan how to execute the strategy. Co-create collaborative environment and infrastructure. Define requirements, approaches, goals, and roadmap. Secure resources.

imageExperiment & Deliver

Iteratively work and learn together

Initiate viable and valuable collaboration. Establish shared tools and methods, test and refine the collaborative’s operating model, and build momentum.

imageMeasure & Share

Communicate observable impacts

Co-design measures of progress and impact. Collect qualitative and quantitative input to measure and monitor performance. Communicate often and openly.

imageAdapt

Iteratively optimize impact

Adapt to emerging needs and conditions. Use learnings to iterate and drive innovation and value. Consider more significant transitions, transfers, or endings as the situation warrants.