OAIThe OAI Model™Operational Alignment & Integrity

Every business exists to serve its customer.

The OAI Model: connected around Customer ValueCustomer Value is central. Purpose, People, Process and Performance form The Core Four. The Seven surround them. Dependability and Thriving encompass the composition, supporting continued Customer Value. Select any labelled element to explore it. Dependability Thriving PurposePeopleProcessPerformance CustomerValue Our PurposeOur Value ChainOur CommunicationStyleOur NavigatorOur ImprovementPracticeOur Visible LearningOur Rhythm

Operational Alignment and Integrity

A practical business alignment framework

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Look a little closer

The work gets done.
What makes it work?

Tangled paths become clear, aligned connections through a magnifying glass containing three meshing cogs.

Alignment makes Operational Drift visible

People are often remarkably good at keeping work moving when the system around them fails. That resourcefulness is a human superpower, yet it can also hide the weakness that made the intervention necessary.

Operational Drift is the gap that can develop between what a business intends and how its work actually happens. Small adjustments, workarounds and changing conditions can gradually move the work away from its intended direction. Alignment helps make that gap visible, understand it and bring the work back together.

Understand Operational Drift

The Bookshelf

Ideas to spend
some time with.

Workplace experience, questions worth asking, and a practical way to look at the business.

Book 01 · Leigh Grover

Every Business Exists
to Serve Its Customer

How much of your organisation’s success depends on people compensating for what isn’t working?

Drawing on decades of operational and leadership experience, Leigh explores how businesses lose connection between their intentions and the way work actually happens.

Practical workplace examples and The OAI Model™ offer leaders a way to see those connections more clearly.

At proof stage

A place for questions

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Follow your curiosity. Explore the thinking behind The OAI Model™, one question at a time.

OBION. Purpose. Alignment. Integrity.

The thinking behind the work

Experience.
Curiosity.
Never stop asking “why”.

The OAI Model™ is a practical business alignment framework. It grew from Leigh’s experience of leading teams, questioning established practices and learning from what happens in everyday work.

OBION is the home of The OAI Model™, bringing that thinking to business owners, leaders and teams through books, practical guidance and support.

A leader may not own the solution, but they still own what happens next.

An OAI leadership principle
Leigh Grover

Continue your work

Your space
to connect.

Dedicated spaces for clients and OAI Alignment Coaches to access resources and support their work with The OAI Model™.

Success is the reward for
serving the customer well.

Return to Customer Value