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[email protected] 2016, DLMann, all rights reserved ABC-M Landscapes In last October’s ezine (Issue 163), we introduced the idea that, when it comes to the intangible aspects of any innovation attempt, the main success criteria involved making our ABC-M (Autonomy-Belonging-Competence-Meaning) tetrad ‘get better for each stakeholder at each moment of truth’. Really simple to say, much more difficult to achieve in practice. On the other hand, ‘being difficult’ should never be a reason for allowing oneself to fail to try and achieve. This short article concerns the next stage of evolution of the ‘ABC-M gets better’ story: the ABC-M Landscape. The basic idea is very simple: identify the (moment of truth) steps in a process or journey; calculate ABC-M for each stakeholder at each of those stages; plot on a graph.