The all-encompassing ICR cycle: targeted focus on your true ambition
The all-encompassing ICR cycle

The all-encompassing ICR cycle

Discover how ICR can significantly enhance your life as an entrepreneur and contribute to your success. Transform your ambitions into results within a single online platform. The comprehensive ICR cycle provides clear insights into your current standing in the overall process, providing you with visible and demonstrable control over every step.

Targeted focus on your true ambition

The core of the ICR approach is a crystal-clear entrepreneurial ambition as the ultimate goal. You then determine which promising business model will turn this ambition into tangible results. Next, you follow the rhythm of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, embedded within the five ICR growth circles. This ensures that you focus on achieving all the necessary milestones to reach your ultimate goal within the set deadlines.

The central theme of this process is continuously developing a highly intuitive team. This is essential because it guarantees a culture of continuous improvement within your company. This approach ensures a positive impact on your life as an entrepreneur and contributes to your overall success.

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The ICR (= InControlRating)

The ICR predicts the success of your management approach and the resulting performance. Through the dashboard, you can monitor your ICR score and the underlying report grades. This way, you always have an overview and insight into your company's current standing, as well as what needs improvement to achieve the desired level of performance. You can manage and track open actions through the Action Plan.

The ICR cycle, as shown at the top of this page, consists of 5 main steps:


  • Entrepreneurial ambition
  • Business model
  • ICR growthcompass
  • Execution dynamic ICR business plan
  • Improvement process through ICR objectives


In the development and execution of these five components, we rely on five ICR growth principles.

Several important pillars in the implementation of the ICR step-by-step plan

Pillars in the ICR approach

The ICR approach is essentially a comprehensive step-by-step plan to turn ambition into results. The ICR cycle provides a structured framework with recurring actions to achieve and maintain success.

When we look at the implementation of the ICR approach from the perspective of a new user, we can identify the following 10 key pillars:


  • AmbitionBusiness model
  • Baseline measurement
  • Long-term planning
  • Daily business
  • Reporting
  • Compliance
  • Care
  • Continuous improvement
  • Success


Ensure that you complete the company settings as thoroughly as possible. This information partially serves as input for the elements of the business model and for specific ICR objectives.

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Professionalism for sustainable success in organizations and companies

Company professionalism through 8 statements

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Expression of sustainable success

Conditions for winning team present/not present

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Manageable and controlled growth for sustainable success

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Every organization should apply ICR as a critical success factor

Why every organization should apply ICR as a critical success factor

  • the ICR growth compass is also a communication tool, sharing the organization's strategy, progress, and performance with stakeholders
  • the ICR growth compass is also a communication tool, sharing the organization's strategy, progress, and performance with stakeholders
  • it assists in defining long-term strategy by setting goals and priorities at all levels of the organization
  • using measurable indicators, the ICR growth compass monitors performance and predicts goal achievement
  • provides feedback to assess performance and identify any deviations from the set course
  • encourages a culture of continuous learning and improvement through data-driven best practices and enhancements