01 · DIAGNOSE
Measure the conditions
Identify the human, leadership, collective and structural conditions supporting or constraining sustainable performance.
Vitality by Design · TDCI
Measure the conditions behind sustainable performance.
The Organisational Vitality Index (OVI) is a developmental organisational diagnostic that measures the human, leadership, collective and organisational conditions that enable people and organisations to flourish, adapt and perform sustainably.
The Organisational Vitality Index
Beyond engagement. Into the architecture that makes performance possible.
The OVI assesses vitality as a multilevel organisational phenomenon. It examines whether people have the personal capacity to engage and adapt, whether leaders create enabling conditions, whether teams function through healthy relational patterns, and whether organisational systems sustain performance over time.
02 · INTERPRET
Understand the architecture
Read the overall OVI alongside domain balance, Architecture Alignment, priority dimensions and vitality patterns.
03 · STRENGTHEN
Act on what matters
Translate diagnostic intelligence into focused leadership, work-design and organisational development priorities.
OVI Reporting
See how OVI reporting works.
OVI reporting turns a four-domain vitality profile into focused organisational intelligence. It explains what is supporting sustainable performance, where constraints sit and where leadership attention may create the greatest benefit.
The public view explains the reporting architecture. Proprietary scoring formulas, reverse-keying and thresholds remain protected.
Overall OVI
A high-level indication of organisational vitality.
Four Domain Scores
Shows vitality across the human, leadership, collective and organisational architecture.
Architecture Alignment
Shows whether vitality is balanced or whether weakness in one foundation is being compensated for elsewhere.
Twenty-Dimension Heatmap
Identifies the specific conditions requiring protection, strengthening or intervention.
Vitality State
Provides an integrated developmental interpretation.
Leadership Intelligence
Highlights the strongest foundation, primary constraint and priority dimensions.
Architecture Patterns
Identifies significant combinations and imbalances across the model.
Executive Interpretation
Converts the profile into an understandable leadership narrative and a focused next step.
Signature framework
The Vitality Architecture
Four interdependent domains that enable people and organisations to flourish and perform sustainably. The approved V6 architecture below is preserved as the master visual framework.
IntrapersonalCapacity to show up, adapt and act
LeadershipConditions for people to perform and flourish
CollectiveCapacity to flourish and perform together
OrganisationalSystems that make sustainable performance possible
Architecture Alignment
An overall average is not enough.
A healthy overall score can conceal a significant weakness in one part of an interdependent system. OVI therefore reports both overall vitality and the coherence or balance across the four foundations.
Architecture Alignment helps leaders see whether vitality is broadly distributed or whether one domain is compensating for another. Proprietary scoring calculations remain behind the diagnostic interface.
Illustrative architecture profile
Illustrative only. The live diagnostic calculates the actual organisational profile from assessment responses.
Vitality States
From strong vitality to systemic depletion risk.
The OVI uses developmental organisational interpretations to help leadership understand the overall pattern and urgency of response. These are not medical or clinical classifications.
Thriving
Vitality is strong and broadly distributed across the architecture.
Stable but Cautious
Current functioning is adequate, with emerging caution signals requiring attention.
Exhausted Drive
Performance may be maintained through depletion rather than sustainable capacity.
Stable but Stagnating
Current functioning is relatively stable, but learning, adaptability or renewal is constrained.
Toxic Depletion Risk
Multiple parts of the vitality architecture are under strain and require coordinated attention.
How the OVI works
From context to diagnostic intelligence to action.
01DEFINEEstablish organisational context, scope and assessment population.
02DIAGNOSEMeasure four domains and twenty dimensions.
03SCORECalculate OVI, domain and dimension results.
04ALIGNAssess Architecture Alignment across the four foundations.
05INTERPRETIdentify strengths, constraints, vitality state and patterns.
06ACTTranslate findings into leadership and organisational priorities.
07RE-MEASURETrack architecture change across assessment waves.
OVI solutions
Choose the level of diagnostic depth and partnership your organisation needs.
OVI CORE DIAGNOSTIC
Full organisational diagnostic
- 100 diagnostic statements
- 4 domains and 20 dimensions
- Overall OVI and Architecture Alignment
- Vitality State
- Dimension heatmap
- Strengths, constraints and executive report
OVI EXECUTIVE DIAGNOSTIC
Leadership and board-level intelligence
- Everything in Core
- Executive interpretation
- Leadership briefing
- Architecture risk analysis
- Business-unit comparison where appropriate
- Board-ready output
OVI TRANSFORMATION PARTNERSHIP
Diagnostic to sustained organisational change
- OVI diagnostic
- Executive interpretation
- Leadership workshops
- Targeted interventions
- Follow-up assessment
- Longitudinal tracking and advisory support
Responsible organisational diagnosis
Developmental intelligence, not individual diagnosis.
The Organisational Vitality Index is a developmental organisational diagnostic designed to support organisational development and leadership decision-making.
It is not a clinical or medical diagnostic and should not be used to diagnose individual employees. Results should be interpreted at an appropriately aggregated organisational or group level and subject to agreed confidentiality and minimum reporting thresholds.
Measure the conditions. Understand the architecture. Strengthen sustainable performance.
Explore the demonstration, complete an invited assessment, or start a conversation about deploying the OVI in your organisation.
Deploy the OVI
Start with your organisational context.
Use this enquiry to discuss a pilot, executive diagnostic, organisational deployment or transformation partnership.
Vitality by Design is part of the TDCI family of specialist organisational development offerings.