30+ years working with leaders across 25+ countries.
Trusted by leadership teams across commercial organisations, UN agencies and INGOs.
For more than 30 years, I have worked with leaders who could describe their strategy clearly but were not sure their organisation had the capability to deliver it.
I have seen the same challenge in commercial organisations approaching growth or transformation, UN country offices restructuring around new strategic plans, and INGOs navigating localisation and funding constraints.
The context changes. The pattern remains the same. Strategy moves faster than organisational capability.
Jean Blackstock
Founder & CEO
Organisations need a clear view of the capabilities their strategy depends on, where those capabilities are strong, vulnerable or missing, and what critical gaps could mean for delivery.
Without that view, leaders can recruit reactively, restructure around yesterday’s work, or spread development investment too thinly, leaving critical capability gaps unaddressed until they begin to affect strategic results.
That is why I created The Capability Codex™.
The Capability Codex™ is JBC’s methodology and decision dashboard for making capability risk visible, quantifiable and actionable.
It connects strategic priorities with the capabilities required to deliver them, assesses the organisation’s current position and gives leaders a clearer basis for deciding what should change.
The Capability Codex™ is the methodology behind JBC’s work. It powers the Diagnostic Snapshot and informs our Coaching and Advisory and Consulting and Implementation support.
Identify the organisational capabilities your strategy requires now and in the future. See where they sit across the organisation, where they are concentrated and where strength, vulnerability or gaps may affect strategic results.
Assess the significance of each gap against strategic priorities. Use gap analysis and risk assessment to identify where leadership attention and capability investment will make the greatest difference.
Translate evidence into practical choices about workforce, structure, operating model, and development. Decide what to build, buy, borrow, develop, retain, redeploy, redesign or release and create a route from diagnosis to action.
JBC’s methodology is founder developed and delivered through a multidisciplinary team and trusted network of associates with deep experience in workforce analytics and modelling, organisational diagnostics, capability analysis, organisation design, workforce planning, affordability analysis and change management.
Together, we combine a consistent methodology with specialist expertise and the delivery capacity required for complex organisational work.
