From Governance to Growth: Executive Value in Deploying a Digital Value Management System® DVMS
Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute
Introduction
Enterprises today operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment where digital disruptions, regulatory demands, and evolving threats place tremendous pressure on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) systems.
Traditional GRC models—siloed, checklist-driven, and reactive—fail to enable resilience and digital trust. The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) offers a transformative overlay that unifies governance, assurance, resilience, and compliance into an adaptive whole-of-enterprise capability.
This essay explores who, across an organization, would find the DVMS valuable for turning static and fragmented GRC into an integrated and adaptive system capable of driving cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, and trust.
Boards of Directors and Senior Executives
The boardroom is where governance responsibility ultimately resides. Board directors and senior executives are increasingly held accountable for organizational resilience and regulatory adherence. The DVMS provides a strategy-risk lens for them, ensuring that value creation and protection are treated as inseparable business imperatives. By using the DVMS, boards gain:
- Clearer oversight of digital risk aligned with enterprise strategy.
- Confidence that compliance is embedded continuously, not periodically.
- Assurance that resilience is not a separate IT problem but an enterprise capability.
DVMS equips leaders to demonstrate due diligence, satisfy regulators, and strengthen investor and stakeholder trust.
Chief Risk Officers and Risk Committees
Chief Risk Officers (CROs) and enterprise risk committees are tasked with balancing risk appetite, performance objectives, and regulatory demands. Fragmented GRC systems often obscure the systemic risks that cut across functions. The DVMS resolves this by embedding risk as an intrinsic part of strategy—strategy-risk—and enabling systemic visibility through the CPD (Create, Protect, Deliver) and 3D Knowledge Models.
For CROs, DVMS provides:
- A coherent framework to assess interdependencies across risks.
- Tools to continuously align governance with operational realities.
- A dynamic approach to risk oversight that reduces blind spots.
This integration supports shifting from reactive, silo-based risk management to a proactive, enterprise-wide risk governance model.
Chief Information Security Officers and Cybersecurity Leaders
CISOs and cybersecurity teams often inherit the burden of compliance checklists and fragmented frameworks. They struggle to balance regulatory requirements, operational security, and resilience. The DVMS transforms this environment by integrating cybersecurity into the broader value management system rather than isolating it as a technical silo.
For CISOs, DVMS enables:
- Embedding cybersecurity practices into organizational governance and culture.
- Using models like MVC Z-X to align security capabilities with enterprise strategy.
- Achieving cyber operational resilience as a business outcome, not just a technical goal.
This shifts cybersecurity from being perceived as a cost center to becoming a trusted enabler of digital value creation.
Compliance Officers and Legal Teams
Compliance leaders and legal departments ensure that the enterprise meets regulatory requirements. In static systems, compliance becomes reactive and costly, often producing “compliance theater” where organizations prepare only for audits. The DVMS eliminates this inefficiency by embedding compliance into the governance and assurance functions of the system.
For compliance officers, DVMS offers:
- Continuous compliance aligned with enterprise operations.
- Streamlined mapping of regulatory standards to DVMS minimum viable capabilities.
- Reduced cost and complexity of demonstrating audit readiness.
This positions compliance not as an external burden but as a built-in, auditable business function that supports trust.
Business Unit Leaders and Line Managers
Beyond risk, security, and compliance leaders, business unit executives, and line managers benefit from the DVMS because it reframes resilience and compliance as part of delivering value. In fragmented systems, these leaders often feel disconnected from GRC initiatives, perceiving them as obstacles rather than enablers. DVMS changes that dynamic by:
- Aligning governance with operational execution through the CPD Model.
- Enabling unit leaders to create and deliver value that is appropriately protected.
- Encouraging participation in cross-functional collaboration via the 3D Knowledge Model.
Business leaders thus gain a system where operational goals and resilience outcomes are mutually reinforcing.
Digital Transformation Leaders and Innovation Teams
Innovation leaders, including Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) and heads of transformation, often face resistance when GRC structures are static. The DVMS integrates innovation as a core capability within its MVC Z-X Model, making adaptability and improvement continual organizational processes.
For innovation teams, DVMS provides:
- A governance model that supports experimentation within managed risk tolerances.
- Assurance that digital initiatives align with enterprise resilience and compliance goals.
- An adaptive framework that accelerates safe, sustainable innovation.
This allows organizations to innovate boldly while maintaining stakeholder trust.
Operations and IT Service Management Teams
Operations and IT leaders are critical in executing enterprise processes that must remain stable under disruption. Traditional GRC often neglects operational perspectives, focusing on controls rather than outcomes. The DVMS incorporates operational teams into its FastTrack™ adaptation model, ensuring they are integral to resilience.
For these teams, DVMS ensures:
- Early stabilization through “Basic Hygiene” phases.
- Iterative optimization of processes for resilience and efficiency.
- Alignment of IT service delivery with enterprise governance and strategy.
This equips operations to deliver both efficiency and resilience simultaneously.
Human Resources and Organizational Development Leaders
Culture is often described as “the weakest link” in resilience and compliance. HR and organizational development leaders play a key role in shaping that culture. The DVMS 3D Knowledge Model and cultural integration principles provide them with tools to foster cross-functional collaboration, continuous learning, and accountability.
For HR leaders, DVMS creates:
- Mechanisms to embed resilience and trust into organizational culture.
- Opportunities to build workforce awareness of systemic risks.
- Structures that align leadership behaviors with resilience and compliance goals.
This way, HR is elevated from a supporting role to a central actor in embedding digital trust.
External Stakeholders: Regulators, Partners, and Customers
The value of the DVMS extends beyond the enterprise to its ecosystem of regulators, partners, and customers. Regulators benefit from more unmistakable evidence of continuous compliance; partners gain confidence in shared digital ecosystems; and customers experience consistent delivery of trustworthy digital value.
For external stakeholders, DVMS demonstrates:
- Transparency in governance and accountability structures.
- Reliability in delivering protected digital services.
- A sustainable commitment to trust and resilience as competitive advantages.
This ecosystem-wide assurance reinforces the organization’s reputation and market position.
Conclusion
The DVMS is not merely a governance tool; it is an enterprise-wide capability that redefines how organizations manage value, risk, and resilience. It provides strategic assurance for boards and executives, systemic integration and clarity for CROs, CISOs, and compliance officers, resilience embedding into value delivery for business leaders, IT operators, and innovators, and culture transformation into a driver of trust for HR. And for external stakeholders, it provides confidence that the enterprise is resilient and trustworthy.
By turning static and fragmented GRC into an integrated and adaptive system, the DVMS ensures that every role in the enterprise—from the boardroom to the front line—contributes to, and benefits from, digital resilience, regulatory compliance, and digital trust.
About the Author
Rick Lemieux
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute
Rick has 40+ years of passion and experience creating solutions to give organizations a competitive edge in their service markets. In 2015, Rick was identified as one of the top five IT Entrepreneurs in the State of Rhode Island by the TECH 10 awards for developing innovative training and mentoring solutions for boards, senior executives, and operational stakeholders.
In today’s digitally driven economy, cyber disruptions are no longer an “if” but a “when.”
The DVMS Institute’s Certified Training Programs teach organizations the skills to turn static and fragmented digital Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) into an Integrated, Adaptive and Culture-Aligned Digital Value Management System® that strengthens Cyber Operational Resilience, ensures Regulatory Compliance, and fosters client Digital Trust.
Through the DVMS MVC, CPD, and 3D Knowledge Models, the DVMS transforms existing control-based systems (NIST, ISO, ITSM, GRC, etc.) into an integrated, adaptive, and culture-aligned management system.
Enabling an integrated, adaptive, and culture-aligned GRC system demands more than frameworks—it requires the seamless connection of Strategy, Governance, and Operations, supported by active participation from every member of the digital ecosystem. Together, they anticipate and mitigate the systemic risks that threaten the digital enterprise’s resilience, compliance, and trust.
By adopting this forward-looking, integrated, and culture-aligned approach to governance, risk, and compliance, businesses 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 Explainer Videos
- Architecture Video: David Moskowitz explains the DVMS System
- Case Study Video: Dr. Joseph Baugh Shares His DVMS Story.
- Overlay Model – What is an Overlay Model
- MVC ZX Model – The MVC’s that power operational resilience
- CPD Model – Adaptable governance and assurance
- 3D Knowledge Model – Enabling holistic organizational learning
- FastTrack Model – A phased approach to cyber resilience
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