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Frameworks
One way of looking, used every time.
A framework is what we build when something is worth reading more than once. Here’s what ours are, who they’re for, and where they don’t belong.
The plain version
The same questions, asked of everyone, read in the same words.
Most things get decided fresh each time. A new question, a new opinion, a new set of words for the answer. Nothing from last month can be lined up against anything from this month, so nothing adds up.
A framework fixes three things. What gets asked. What we read out of the answers. And the words the answer comes back in. Ask two people the same things, in the same order, and you can compare what comes back honestly.
That’s all it is. Not a rule book, and not a theory about what people are like. A steady way of looking, so the thing being looked at is the only part that changes.
Why bother
A guess can’t be checked. A framework can.
You already do this. Every time you interview somebody, or pick a course, or work out who should run a difficult project, you’re using a framework in your head. It just changes shape between Tuesday and Thursday, and you can’t show it to anyone afterwards.
We build one when a decision matters, when more than one person is involved, and when you’ll have to explain your reasoning later. Hiring somebody. Deciding what to do next with your working life. Choosing who to trust with something that can’t easily be undone.
They’re worth much less on small decisions you can reverse in an hour. We’d rather say that than sell you one for everything.
Anyone can use one. An employer with a shortlist, a college with a room full of first-years, a person on their sofa at eleven at night wondering what to do next. The framework doesn’t change for any of them. That’s the point of it.
How it goes
You answer. We analyse. You get it back in plain words.
Someone answers a set of questions. We analyse the answers and give a reading back, in words, with the range it most likely sits in. If the answers don’t hold together, we widen that range and say so rather than tidying it up.
We’ll always tell you what we ask and what we give back. What happens in between stays ours, and we don’t publish it. Anyone who knew that part could work out how to answer, and then the reading is worth nothing to either of us.
And a framework never decides. It hands a person something better to decide with. That person still decides, and still answers for it.
Our first framework
TIGER: human and workforce intelligence.
People are the hardest data any organisation holds. There’s plenty of it. Almost none of it has ever been analysed. So people are where we started.
TIGER reads five things about how a person tends to work. Trust, Influence, Grit, Execution, Resilience. The same five, in the same words, for everybody.
Underneath it sit the things a person actually sits. TIGER Light, which only you can start, for understanding yourself. TIGER Core, which an organisation starts when it has a real decision to make about somebody. And TIGER Student, for colleges, universities and adult programmes, by invitation.
Start with yourself. Build your Kirnova profile. You’ll set up an account first. It takes a minute, and it’s how your report stays yours.