📘 Start Here: Welcome to the SPI 360 Playbook

Your Strategic System for Leading Cybersecurity with Clarity and Precision

Welcome to the SPI 360 Playbook—a living leadership guide designed to help you build clarity, influence, and measurable progress in your cybersecurity program, starting from day one.

Whether you’re launching a new initiative, onboarding into a leadership role, or leading transformation across teams, SPI 360 gives you a strategic operating system built for today’s complexity.

This playbook is not a maturity model, compliance checklist, or static PDF. It’s a living resource designed to evolve with you as you govern, lead, and deliver outcomes that matter.

🔍 What Is SPI 360?

SPI 360 stands for Strategic Performance Intelligence 360—a framework developed to help cybersecurity leaders govern like business executives. It helps you:

Align strategy, governance, people, and technology
Reduce organizational friction and entropy
Operationalize metrics and intelligence, not just reporting
Build systems that drive outcomes, not just activity

📘 What’s Inside This Playbook

This playbook is structured into 3 core phases aligned to your first 90 days of strategic execution:

Phase 1 – Diagnose & Align
Surface the brutal truth. Use SPI 360 and the Entropy Scorecard to uncover friction, drag, and alignment gaps.
Phase 2 – Design & Mobilize
Stand up your governance rhythm, activate metrics, and launch early wins with SPI-aligned initiatives.
Phase 3 – Govern & Accelerate
Embed SPI into QBRs, scale your system, and lead the organization toward continuous value delivery.

You’ll also find:

🔧 Toolkits and templates to use during implementation
📊 Metrics and QBR preparation guidance
🔮 A preview of The Razor’s Edge Workbook to deepen strategic impact

🔗 Getting Started

Head to Phase 1 – Diagnose & Align to begin your journey.
Log into the Identient Portal for access to assessments, scorecards, metrics, stakeholder, and financial management tools.
Share this playbook with your team and collaborators—it’s meant to drive alignment, not sit on a shelf.

📣 This Is a Living System

SPI 360 is a system of leadership, not just a tool. You’re encouraged to revisit this playbook regularly, update it with your lessons learned, and expand it as your needs evolve.

Keep leading what’s next—and govern like the future depends on it.