SHIRPA Ecoystem Elements

SHIRPA ACS™

Assured Capability System

  • The ACS is a fundamental construct that ensure transformation actually happens. At the heart of the Conversion domain of the Catalyst Protocol, ACS workflows bring about the “rubber-meets-the-road” change inspired by the other domains.

  • To reliably ensures that targeted improvement activities produce the outcomes leadership is counting on.

    • Commitments

    • Control

    • Capability

    • Confirmation

    • Conversion

  • To support disciplined change execution without rigidity.

SHIRPA PADL™

Program Asset Development Lifecycle

  • A lifecycle model for governing policies, standards, procedures, and templates.

  • Outdated, conflicting, or decaying governance artifacts.

    • Control

  • To keep program assets current, authoritative, consistent, and aligned as the organization evolves.

SHIRPA TEAMS™

Training, Education, Awareness, Mentoring & Simulation

  • A structured approach to planning and developing human capability and shared understanding.

  • Cybersecurity programs fail not because controls are unclear, but because people do not consistently understand, internalize, practice, or retain what is expected of them.

    • Commitments

    • Control

    • Capability

    • Confirmation

    • Conversion

  • To build confidence, improve judgment, and create a shared understanding of roles, risk, and governance expectations.

SHIRPA PAT™

Performance Assurance Tool

  • A method for documenting, analyzing, designing, and planning processes.

  • Organizations cannot clearly see, explain, or validate how work is actually performed end-to-end—and therefore cannot reliably assure or improve performance.

    • Capability

  • To make workflow visible, identify friction and gaps, and improve integration across teams and systems.

SHIRPA MTMTM™

Multi-Tier Metrics That Mater

  • A structure for planning and organizing metrics across strategic, operational, and execution levels. This element of the ecosystem plays a critical role by ensuring the right people see only the information, when they need it.

  • Unimportant information given to the wrong people at the wrong time.

    • Commitments

    • Capability

  • To improve transparency, support evidence-based decisions, and ensure metrics reflect intent at every level.

SHIRPA Catalyst 5 Protocol™ (C5)

Commitment · Control · Capability · Confirmation · Conversion

  • A structural model that connects organizational intent to execution and outcomes.

  • Drift between what an organization says it will do and what actually happens.

    • Commitments

    • Controls

    • Capability

    • Confirmation

    • Conversion

  • To ensure commitments are governed, capabilities are real, performance is confirmed, and insight is continuously converted into business aligned impact.

SHIRPA CCORE™

Commitment-to-Control-to-Outcome Reference Engine

  • A traceability tool linking commitments, controls, and capabilities.

  • Lack of visibility into where misalignment actually occurs.

    • Commitments

    • Controls

    • Capability

    • Confirmation

    • Conversion

  • To harmonize commitments to a single register of control objectives. To map the normalized control objectives to operational capabilities. This creates a bridge between executive commitments and operational capabilities.

SHIRPA SBAR™

Situation-Background-Assessment-Recomendation

  • A structured and succinct situation reporting tool.

  • Inconsistent and incomplete decision support information being available to the right person at the right level of the organization.

    • Commitments

    • Controls

    • Capability

    • Confirmation

    • Conversion

  • To enable the free flow of risk information throughout the ecosystem.

    Specifically linking operations with Enterprise Risk Management proactively and with Enterprise Crisis Management when under duress.

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