Digital Value Management System® (DVMS)

Governing and Assuring Operational Resilience in Living Digital Systems

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Governing and Assuring Resilience in Living Digital Systems

Despite abundant frameworks and dashboards, leaders still struggle to see how digital value streams actually perform under real-world stress.

Intent, structure, and day-to-day behavior are examined in isolation, creating flat views that hide how decisions and human responses interact in a living digital system.

The result is governance that looks sound on paper but fails in practice—leaving leaders managing disconnected controls instead of assuring the resilience and performance of the whole system.

From Activity-Based Compliance to Governing by Assurance

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 GRC artifacts offer reassurance, not proof, and challenges boards to demand evidence that value can be created, protected, and delivered under stress.

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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.

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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.

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The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS)

The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) training programs teach leadership, practitioners, and employees how to integrate fragmented frameworks and systems such as NISTCSF, GRC, ITSM, and AI into a unified, culture-driven governance and assurance system that enables organizations to manage the resilience of their living digital system by :

  • Enabling Adaptive Governance through risk-informed decision-making
  • Sustaining Operational Resilience through a proactive and adaptive culture
  • Measuring Performance Assurance through evidence-based outcomes
  • Ensuring Visible Accountability by making intent, execution, and evidence inseparable
 
At its core, the DVMS is a simple but powerful integration of:
  • Governance Intentshared expectations and accountabilities
  • Operational Capabilities – how the digital business actually performs
  • Assurance Evidenceproof that outcomes are achieved and accountable
  • Cultural Outcomesthat align people, decisions, and behaviors

 

Through its MVC, CPD, 3D Knowledge, and FastTrack Models, a DVMS turns this integration into three distinctive capabilities:

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.

 

DVMS Organizational Benefits

Instead of replacing existing operational frameworks, the DVMS elevates them—connecting and contextualizing their data into actionable intelligence that validates performance and exposes the reasons behind unmet outcomes.

By adopting a DVMS, organizations are positioned to:

  • Maintain Operational Stability Amidst Constant Digital Disruption
  • Deliver Digital Value and Trust Across A Digital Ecosystem
  • Satisfy Critical Regulatory and Certification Requirements
  • Leverage Cyber Resilience as a Competitive Advantage
 

DVMS Leadership Benefits

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.

 

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The DVMS Training Pathway to Operational Resilience

The DVMS Institute’s certification training programs and publications equip leaders, practitioners, and organizations to govern operational cyber-resilience through an evidence-based system that assures and accounts for digital value outcomes.

Grounded in real-world governance challenges and aligned to NIST CSF 2.0, DVMS Institute offerings go beyond frameworks and compliance checklists to build measurable capability, clear accountability, and defensible confidence in decision-making.

Through structured learning, applied certification, and authoritative publications, the Institute advances a disciplined, outcome-driven approach to managing digital risk, performance, and resilience as an integrated system.

DVMS Cyber Resilience Awareness Training

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.

This investment fosters a culture that is prepared to operate within a system capable of transforming systemic cyber risks into operational resilience.

DVMS NISTCSF Foundation Certification Training

The DVMS NISTCSF 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.

This investment fosters IT, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business professionals with the skills to operate within a system capable of transforming systemic cyber risks into operational resilience.

DVMS Cyber Resilience Practitioner Certification Training

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.

This investment fosters IT, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business practitioners with the skills to assess, design, implement, operationalize, and continually innovate a Digital Value Management System® program that operationalizes a shared model of governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability for creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.

 

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A FastTrack Approach to Launching A DVMS Program

The DVMS FastTrack Model is a phased, iterative approach that helps organizations adopt and mature their Digital Value Management System over time, rather than trying to do everything simultaneously. This approach breaks the DVMS journey into manageable phases of success.

 
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An Integrated Intelligence System that Governs, Assures, and Sustains Digital Business Performance, Resilience, and Trust

Building a digital Value Management system®

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.

Aligning digital business strategy, governance, operations, and culture

DVMS Overlay System

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.

operationalizes the Digital Value Management System® across Your Business

DVMS-CPD Model

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.

Powers the DVMS-CPD using Universal Digital Business design Capabilities

DVMS-MVC z-x™ Model

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.

Establishes the Culture to Support the Digital Value management System®

DVMS 3D Knowledge Model

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.

Establishes the Pace for Digital Value management System® adoption

DVMS FastTrack Model

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.

Assesses your Organization’s cultural Risk

DVMS-CAT

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.

Adapting the GRC Digital Value management System to the Energy Sector

Dr. Joseph Baugh shares his DVMS NIST Cybersecurity Framework Success Story

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 

Introduction to the nIST Cybersecurity Framework and the Digital Value management System® (DVMS)

NIST-CSF and the DVMS

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.

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