Ledger imbalance
Which ledgers have standing, which ledgers are suppressed, and which forms of value are being treated as invisible until they become expensive.
Structural Diagnostic
Find the ledger imbalance behind the operating problem.
The Structural Diagnostic examines one significant organizational issue across the five ledgers: Financial, Operational, Capacity, Learning and Innovation, and Externalities and Equity. The goal is to identify where value is being delayed, duplicated, hidden, protected, or lost, and what structure keeps producing the problem.
Starting at $12,000 · Standard Illinois range: $15,000 to $24,500 · quoted by scope
What the Diagnostic examines.
IVA reviews the issue through existing documents, decision paths, evidence flows, operating routines, reporting obligations, and leadership context. The Diagnostic is scoped to reveal the structure and preserve the work already done rather than forcing a new discovery burden.
Evidence gaps
Where financial, operational, capacity, learning, external, and equity evidence is incomplete, fragmented, duplicated, or rebuilt by hand.
Decision rights
Where authority, accountability, information, and consequences are split across roles or functions in ways that keep the issue alive.
Reporting distortion
Where reports show activity or financial movement while hiding capacity loss, learning decay, external burden, or operational friction.
Capacity loss
Where hidden labor, rework, escalation, correction loops, or leadership bottlenecks are preserving delivery while weakening the system.
Implementation readiness
What structure, evidence, decision authority, leadership rhythm, or support would be needed to move from diagnosis to implementation.
What the work produces.
The Diagnostic produces a clear explanation of the operating problem, the five-ledger pattern behind it, the evidence supporting the finding, and the practical implementation path if the organization chooses to move forward.
Complex, public-sector, statewide, multi-function, board-facing, or multi-stakeholder scopes are quoted by proposal.
Request a scoped proposal.
Start with the issue, the affected functions, the timeline, and the documents already available. IVA will confirm whether a Diagnostic is the right level of work or whether a smaller Snapshot is enough.