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Operational capability

# Task Force {#task-force}

Overview

Strategy, formal alignment and institutional intent do not guarantee execution. A Task Force enters at that gap and leaves only when the capability remains inside the institution.

01

## Diagnose {#diagnose}

Start with the function, not the organigram. Locate where responsibility, capability and execution separate; establish the target state; define the evidence that will show whether the gap is actually closing.

02

## Build {#build}

Translate the diagnosis into an operating programme. Design the intervention, assemble the necessary expertise, run delivery with institutional counterparts and test the system under actual constraints. Not recommendations. Working capability.

03

## Transfer {#transfer}

Move procedures, tools, data, competencies and operating routines into the institution itself. External support recedes as internal capability expands. The objective is not permanent support. It is independent execution.

04

## Capability remains {#capability-remains}

Success is reached when the function no longer needs the Task Force. Capability remains. The Task Force leaves.

In depth

What a partner keeps when the Task Force leaves, and how to tell whether the capability has stayed.

[What stays with you](https://docs.esfi.eu/our-approach/what-stays-with-you/)

ESFI — civilization infrastructure · https://esfi.eu