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Effective Change Capacity (ECC) is one number per team per day. It expresses how much room a team has to absorb change today, given everything else they are carrying. Capacity alone overstates the answer. Receptivity alone understates it. ECC multiplies them.
ECC = Capacity × Receptivity
Capacity reflects current load: active initiatives, recent reorg events, tenure adjustments. Receptivity reflects behavioral mode and recent pulse data. Both are reported on a 0 to 100 scale, and ECC inherits the same scale.
A team with high capacity and low receptivity looks available on paper and is not. A team with low capacity and high receptivity is willing but already full. ECC catches both states with one number.
ECC is a reference number, not a target. A score of 70 today does not mean a team should be pushed toward 80. It means today's plan should respect today's room.
The two component scores stay visible alongside ECC. A manager reviewing the team detail surface sees both inputs, not only the product. The product is the headline. The components are the explanation.
ECC carries a confidence band tied to data freshness and pulse response density. A team with thin recent data carries a wider band. The headline number stays visible. The band sits in the tooltip on the headline and inline on drilldown.
ECC is computed in the RECEPT-2 lane, reading the CAPACITY-1 load_score and the RECEPT-1 receptivity score. Per-tenant weighting between the two components is configured in tenant_classifier_config.ecc_split from BACKBONE-1. Default weighting is balanced.
The framework on this page powers the daily plan SteadMark sends each manager.
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