Shield Cascade.
Turn the response
into a controlled path.
A sequenced, costed and dependency-tested action plan for a chosen response. Four weeks. From £6,500. Shield Cascade shows what starts now, what is prepared as an option, what waits, and which dependencies govern timing and cost.
HOW EXPORT READY ARE YOU
Take the test. Get the score.
WHY CASCADE EXISTS
After a board chooses a response, execution can fragment quickly. Teams start the work they can see. Long-lead items start late. Dependencies surface after they block progress. Money is committed too early, or held back too long. Shield Cascade imposes sequence.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
The response.
Sequenced. Costed.
A full execution pack: strategic-choice foundation, options-gate roadmap, dependency map, critical path, PERT ranges, provider register and planning model.
The strategic-choice foundation.
The protected position, response boundary, required capabilities and management systems.
The options-gate roadmap.
Actions split into commit now, prepare as an option, hold until evidence moves, or abandon.
The Shield Pathway Model.
Strategic Choice Cascade, Scenario Planning, Three Horizons, Options-Gate Sequencing, CPM and PERT in one model.
The execution pack.
Workstreams, owners, dependencies, provider categories, cost ranges, timing ranges and milestone dates.
THE Model
Anchor, scenarios, gates and path.
Shield Cascade turns an approved response into an executable path. Strategic Choice Cascade anchors the plan. Scenario Planning and Three Horizons define what it must withstand. Real Options and Stage-Gate logic decide when to commit. CPM and PERT make timing visible.
HOW THE WORK RUNS
Five weeks. Three beats.
Scope and the strategic cascade confirmed once you commission. Phasing built, activities decomposed, schedule run, plan pressure-tested. The plan and the model land on your desk in week five.
You confirm the market, the verdict that brought you here, and what trading looks like a year out. The strategic-choice cascade is drafted across the five questions for your review.
We define the scenario set. Immediate actions are named, preparatory options are defined, evidence gates are set and dependencies are mapped.
The model identifies the critical path, milestone confidence dates, long-lead blockers, cost rollups and activities most exposed to delay.
WHO CASCADE IS FOR
When the response has been chosen.
Cascade is the right step once leadership knows the direction and needs order, cost, timing and ownership.
The response crosses functions.
Legal, compliance, operations, sales, finance, logistics or customer communication need sequencing.
Some actions are conditional.
The business needs to prepare options without committing before evidence justifies it.
A deadline is approaching.
Leadership needs to know which dependencies control the timeline.
Providers will be needed.
Outside specialists, testing bodies, brokers, advisers or communications support may affect cost and timing.
Execution needs control.
The plan must be useful to an operations director without becoming a procedure manual.
COMMERCIAL TERMS
Fixed at signing.
No surprise invoices.
Five weeks. From £8,750. Fifty per cent on signing, fifty on delivery. The Cascade Model is yours to keep, and folds into the full sequence if you take Reckoning, Verdict, and Cascade together.
Investment from £6,500
The engagement covers the response roadmap, Shield Pathway Model, options-gate register, cost and timing ranges, provider register and retained planning model. Scope flexes with workstream breadth, dependency complexity and deadline pressure.
Scope locks at signing; the fee locks with it.
Fifty-fifty, fully guaranteed
Fifty per cent is invoiced on signing to secure the project window. The remainder follows on delivery of the roadmap, model and execution pack. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices in between.
If three months after delivery the work has not earned its fee, write to us, name what fell short, and the refund follows in full.
Our work earns its fee, or we refund it.
The roadmap travels with you
The Shield Pathway Model is handed over with the sequence, dependencies, options gates, timing ranges, cost ranges and critical path intact. When evidence moves, the plan can move with it.
If Cascade follows Shield Verdict, the chosen response and tested assumptions become the starting point. The work shifts from decision to execution without restarting the logic.
A plan today, an operating model for the response.
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