Every framework that promises transformation must eventually answer a plain question: what came of it? GVIA answers that question in the terms GIDAF itself uses. It does not ask whether you understand the framework or admire it. It asks what value you generated, what value you multiplied, and what value you conveyed — and it asks you to show it.
Most composite measures average their parts, which lets one strong part conceal a broken one. GVIA composes geometrically instead, so the score collapses toward the weakest link — which is exactly how value behaves.
GVIA Index = ∛ ( Generate × Multiply × Convey )
Value generated but never multiplied is capped at your own capacity. Value multiplied but never conveyed accumulates without arriving. Value conveyed but never generated is borrowed. Value that never arrives is not a lesser value; it is not value.
This is not new to GIDAF. Uncommon Value to the Marketplace states the Valuetainment Equation — Internal × Visible × Shared — which is multiplicative for the same reason. GVIA makes it computable.
Sixteen Vision Lenses across the five sections of the GIDAF Cycle. Forward-looking, about two minutes, and a measure of readiness. Start here if you have not done it — gva.gidaf.co.uk.
Evidence-graded, over a period you declare, and a measure of realisation. It reads what actually happened and what it can be shown by. The three sub-tools below.
All six share one engine. Only the unit of value and the people it reaches change.
Effort that produced nothing scores nothing. A sincere plan that reached no one scores nothing. The severity is the point: an instrument is only useful to the extent that it can return an uncomfortable answer.
Six classes of value are recognised — produced, capability, relational, knowledge, economic and formational. An assessment covering only the economic class is not a GVIA assessment at all.
Scores are read against your own declared unit of value and your own previous period. Reference expectations are published only once real assessment data exists to derive them — not invented to look authoritative.
Every response carries an evidence grade, A to D, and grades are never blended into the score. A result is reported as Indicative, Validated or Assured, and the standing appears wherever the Index does.