The One-Team Growth Engine · Open Model v1.0

Growth is not accidental. It is an architecture.

OTGE is an open maturity model for commercial organizations: 5 pillars × 3 dimensions that show whether your revenue system — people, process, and data across sales, marketing, CS, and operations — is built to grow. Free to use, adapt, and build on.

PILLARS 5 DIMENSIONS 3 CELLS 15 LICENSE CC BY-SA 4.0 AUTHOR JAN BULTINCK

What it is

A model of the organization around the funnel

Most frameworks answer one question well. The bow tie answers "how does revenue flow?". MEDDICC answers "is this deal real?". Playing to Win answers "where do we compete?". OTGE answers a different one: is this organization built to grow? It sits on top of those models — deliberately compatible, never competing.

P1

Vision

Does everyone know where we play, how we win, and why it matters?

P2

Language

Do we mean the same thing when we say "qualified," "committed," "customer"?

P3

Process

Does revenue follow a designed, full-lifecycle journey — or a funnel that ends at signature?

P4

Rhythm

Does execution have a heartbeat — or does the quarter end in a frenzy?

P5

Culture

Do people own outcomes — and does the system make them better?

The maturity grid

Score your organization in 90 minutes

Each pillar is assessed across People, Process, and Data. Click any cell to see what Chaotic (1), Defined (3), and Engineered (5) look like — then score what is demonstrably true today. No mutual mystification: if you can't show the artifact, it doesn't count.

People
Process
Data

The mix

Anyone can own the same tracks — the same CRM, methodology, and talent. What makes the room move is the mix. Your pillar averages appear here as you score; growth leaks at your lowest fader.

Open by design

The model is free. The craft is the business.

OTGE is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0: use it commercially, adapt it, extend it — with attribution, and improvements shared under the same license. What I offer commercially is the application: facilitated diagnostics with benchmarking, transformation workshops, keynotes, and hands-on commercial leadership.

CC BY-SA 4.0

BY — credit Jan Bultinck as the author, on every use and adaptation.
SA — anything you build on the model stays open under the same license.
The "One-Team Growth Engine" name and the 5×3 architecture originate with Jan Bultinck.

Release schedule

One pillar, every two weeks

RELEASE 01
The model + maturity grid
The 5×3 architecture, 15-cell scoring model, self-assessment rules.
RELEASE 02
Vision instruments
Where-to-Play / How-to-Win canvas for commercial teams, North Star template.
RELEASE 03
Language instruments
Definitions dictionary, stage entry/exit criteria, Upfront Contract template, qualification sheet.
RELEASE 04
Process instruments
Full-lifecycle journey map (bow-tie compatible), handoff SLA templates.
RELEASE 05
Rhythm instruments
The complete cadence stack: 1:1s, pipeline, monthly telex, quarterly QBRP.
RELEASE 06
Culture instruments
Coaching toolbox, incremental-wins tracking, burnout early indicators.

The author

Jan Bultinck

25+ years of commercial leadership in enterprise software — SAP ecosystems, ERP, supply chain, and manufacturing across Benelux and Europe. Teams from 10 to 150 FTEs, always in transformation. OTGE distills a decade of published thinking into one open architecture.

OTGE builds gratefully on the open work of Jacco van der Kooij / Winning by Design (bow tie, revenue architecture), Roger Martin (Playing to Win), David Sandler (Upfront Contracts), Dave Gray (The Connected Company), John C. Maxwell, Jocko Willink, and Gartner's "Winning in the Turns". Open models stack — this one adds the organizational floor.

Extend it, translate it, adapt it: share under the same license and tag #OneTeamGrowthEngine. The best contributions get amplified.