Explainer Video – Governing By Assurance
Despite an abundance of frameworks, metrics, and dashboards, many leaders still lack a clear line of sight into how their digital value streams perform when conditions deteriorate.
Strategic intent, organizational structures, and day-to-day behaviors are evaluated separately, producing static snapshots that fail to reveal how decisions, dependencies, and human actions interact within a dynamic digital system.
The result is governance that appears comprehensive in documentation yet proves fragile under pressure, leaving leaders to reconcile disconnected controls rather than systematically strengthen resilience.
What is needed is a framework-agnostic operating overlay that enables digital value resilience to be governed, assured, and accounted for coherently across complex, interdependent digital ecosystems.
Explainer Video – From Compliance Rituals to Evidence-Based Resilience
The whitepapers below present a clear progression from compliance-driven thinking to a modern system of Governance, Resilience, Assurance, and Accountability (GRAA). Together, they define an evidence-based approach to building and governing resilient digital enterprises.
The Assurance Mandate Paper explains why traditional compliance artifacts offer reassurance, not proof, and challenges boards to demand evidence that value can be created, protected, and delivered under stress.
The Assurance in Action Paper shows how DVMS turns intent into execution by translating outcomes into Minimum Viable Capabilities, aligning frameworks through the Create–Protect–Deliver model, and producing measurable assurance evidence of real performance.
The Governing by Assurance Paper extends this model to policy and regulation, positioning DVMS as a learning overlay that links governance intent, operational capability, and auditable evidence—enabling outcome-based governance and proof of resilience through measurable performance data.
Explainer Video – What is a Digital Value Management System (DVMS)
The DVMS is an overlay management system that governs, assures, and accounts for digital value resilience in complex digital ecosystems
Create, Protect, and Deliver (CPD) – The CPD Model™ is a systems-based model within the DVMS that links strategy-risk and governance to execution to create, protect, and deliver digital business value as an integrated, continuously adaptive capability.
3D Knowledge (3DK) – The 3D Knowledge Model is a systems-thinking framework that maps team knowledge over time (past, present, future), cross-team collaboration, and alignment to strategic intent to ensure that organizational behavior, learning, and execution remain integrated and adaptive in delivering digital business value.
Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVC) – The Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVCs) model supports the seven essential, system-level organizational capabilities—Govern, Assure, Plan, Design, Change, Execute, and Innovate—required to reliably create, protect, and deliver digital business value in alignment with strategy-risk intent.
A Governance Overlay that replaces fragmentation with unity. The DVMS provides organizations with a structured way to connect strategy with day-to-day execution. Leaders gain a consistent mechanism to direct, measure, and validate performance across every system responsible for digital value.
A Behavioral Engine that drives high-trust, high-velocity decision-making. The DVMS embeds decision models and behavioral patterns that help teams think clearly and act confidently, even in uncertain situations. It is engineered to reduce friction, prevent blame-based cultures, and strengthen organizational reliability.
A Learning System that makes culture measurable, adaptable, and scalable. Culture becomes a managed asset—not an abstract concept. The DVMS provides a repeatable way to observe behavior, collect evidence, learn from outcomes, and evolve faster than threats, disruptions, or market shifts.
Explainer Video – DVMS Organization and Leadership Benefits
Instead of replacing existing operational frameworks and platforms, the DVMS elevates them, connecting and contextualizing their data into actionable intelligence that validates performance and exposes the reasons behind unmet outcomes.
The Digital Value Management System (DVMS) provides leaders with a unified, evidence-based approach to governing and enhancing their digital enterprise, aligning with regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
For the CEO, the DVMS provides a clear line of sight between digital operations, business performance, and strategic outcomes—turning governance and resilience into enablers of growth and innovation rather than cost centers.
For the Board of Directors, the DVMS provides ongoing assurance that the organization’s digital assets, operations, and ecosystem are governed, protected, and resilient—supported by evidence-based reporting that directly links operational integrity to enterprise value and stakeholder trust.
For the CIO, CRO, CISO, and Auditors, an integrated, adaptive, and culture-driven governance and assurance management system that enhances digital business performance, resilience, trust, and accountability.
Explainer Video – The DVMS Training Pathway to Cyber Resilience
The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) training programs teach leadership, practitioners, and employees how to integrate fragmented systems into a unified, culture-driven governance and assurance system that accounts for the resilience of digital value within a living digital ecosystem.
The DVMS Cyber Resilience Awareness course and its accompanying body of knowledge publication educate all employees on the fundamentals of digital business, its associated risks, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and their role within a shared model of governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability for creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.
The DVMS NISTCSF Cyber Resilience Foundation certification training course and its accompanying body of knowledge publications provide ITSM, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business professionals with a detailed understanding of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and its role in a shared model of governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability for creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.
The DVMS Practitioner certification training course and its accompanying body of knowledge publications teach ITSM, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business practitioners how to elevate investments in ITSM, GRC, Cybersecurity, and AI business systems by integrating them into a unified governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability system designed to proactively identify and mitigate the cyber risks that could disrupt operations, erode resilience, or diminish client trust.
Explainer Video – Scaling a DVMS Program
The DVMS FastTrack approach is a phased, iterative approach that helps organizations mature their DVMS over time, rather than trying to do everything simultaneously.
This approach breaks the DVMS journey into manageable phases of success. It all starts with selecting the first digital service you want to make cyber resilient. Once that service becomes resilient, it becomes the blueprint for operationalizing cyber resilience across the enterprise and its supply chain.
DVMS Institute Chief Content Architect David Moskowitz, shares his insights on how the DVMS seamlessly aligns organizational strategy, governance, operations, and culture into an integrated and culture-driven overlay system that drives adaptive governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability across complex digital supply chains.
Guidehouse Security, Dr. Joseph Baugh shares his story on how his DVMS certification training enabled him to help a large energy company become compliant with TSA’s Directive for Pipeline Security
Rick Lemieux, the DVMS Institute’s Chief Product Officer, shares his insights on how the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NISTCSF) integrates with the DVMS to drive resilient digital business operations across a complex digital supply chain.
The DVMS Overlay elevates an organization’s investment in ITSM, GRC, and Cybersecurity by uniting them into a cohesive system that Governs, Assures, and Sustains digital business performance, resilience, and trust.
The DVMS CPD Model seamlessly operationalizes organizational digital Strategy, Governance, Operations, and Culture into an integrated and culture-driven adaptive governance and assurance system that continually innovates the Creation, Protection, and Delivery of digital value.
The DVMS MVC Z-X Model universal design capabilities of Govern, Assure, Plan, Design, Execute, Change, and Innovate provide a standardized approach to optimizing, uniting, and innovating the frameworks and systems that underpin the DVMS. Each capability represents a critical dimension of resilience.
The DVMS 3D Knowledge Model provides a multidimensional lens to understand how teams and systems interact. The model maps organizational learning across three axes: X (past, present, and future knowledge), Y (team collaboration), and Z (strategic alignment). This model ensures that knowledge, culture, and strategy remain connected and adaptive.
The DVMS FastTrack Model is a phased, iterative approach that helps organizations adopt and mature their Digital Value Management System over time instead of trying to do everything simultaneously. This approach breaks the DVMS journey into manageable phases of success.
The DVMS Culture Assessment Tool (DVMS-CAT) helps organizations understand employees’ attitudes and perceptions toward cybersecurity risk management. The corresponding report provides insights into the cultural risks that could severely impact an organizational digital business ecosystem.
The DVMS Institutes programs have been adopted by governments and businesses across the globe
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