Using EOS with Next 12: A More Flexible Way to Run the System

We spent almost ten years on the client side of EOS and other planning sessions. A lot of the discipline is useful: decide where you're going, put owners on the work and look at the numbers every week.

What did not work for us was having to run every part of the business a prescribed way. We built Next 12 so teams could keep the habits that help and set up the rest around how they already work.

Keep the rhythm if it works

If your team has a yearly plan, quarterly priorities and a weekly meeting, keep them. You can put that plan into Next 12 and use the names your team already knows. There is no reason to rename a working process to satisfy software.

Set up the meetings your team needs

Your leadership meeting and your operations meeting probably should not have identical agendas. In Next 12, you can build each one around the numbers, topics and people that belong in it. Everyone can follow along live, and the meeting ends with to-dos assigned in the same place.

Give the right people access

Different teams handle ownership differently. Some functions have one clear lead. Others are run together. The accountability chart should show how your company actually works. The same goes for the numbers: track what matters to your business, on a schedule that makes sense for the team.

Use EOS, Next 12 or both

If EOS is working well for you, there is no reason to stop using it. Next 12 can hold the plan and run the meetings alongside it. If you want the planning discipline without adopting every rule of a method, you can use Next 12 on its own.

We built it while running Moto Transportation, then kept changing it as the business changed. Book a walkthrough and bring your current agenda. We can show you what it would look like inside the software.