Core membership
Free
Connect, contribute and explore.
- Exchange ideas and experience with peers
- Join communities and build your professional record
- Give and receive attestations
- Get started with a monthly allowance of Ask Doshin
Where experience works both ways.
Share on your terms
Compare notes with peers, offer a little mentoring or find paid work that draws on your experience. Share as much or as little as you feel comfortable with. You choose who to help, how much time to give and, for paid work, the terms you agree.
Find the experience you need
Find people who have walked in your shoes, learn from their experiences and succeed with their help. Sometimes a short conversation is enough; other times, a specialist or team when you need more.
Share your experience, exchange ideas and learn from people who understand your work. Find useful support, help others move forward and discover opportunities when they’re right for you.
Core membership is free. Paid tools are optional.
Communities of Excellence
Find your communities.
Our first fourteen communities connect people around real business challenges. Find familiar expertise, explore something new and meet people who understand your work. You can belong in more than one. On joining we’ll make suggestions on the ones we think will appeal. Challenges often cross communities. doshin helps you connect with the mix of experience you need.
Business design
Shape how the business creates value and works to deliver it.
- Strategic analysis & options
- Business-model design
- Enterprise architecture
- Business architecture
- Operating-model design
- End-to-end service design
- Process design & improvement
- Business analysis & requirements
More about this community
Draws on: BIZBOK, BABOK, TOGAF, SFIA and government service-design guidance; Shingo informs sustained improvement.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaProduct & User Experience
Shape physical products, digital products and services that people value and can use.
- Product strategy & leadership
- Product management & lifecycle
- Product discovery & research
- Digital product & interaction design
- Physical product & industrial design
- Content design
- Accessibility & inclusive design
- Design systems
More about this community
Draws on: SFIA, Government Digital and Data roles, the GOV.UK Design System, and IDSA guidance for industrial design.
These sources inform the scope and prototype review guidance; detailed criteria need practitioner review. They do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaBusiness technology
Make technology serve the business.
- Technology strategy & advisory
- Solution & technical architecture
- Software engineering
- Business applications & functional consulting
- Systems integration
- Cloud & infrastructure
- Networks & connectivity
- Platform engineering & DevOps
- IT service management & operations
- Testing & quality assurance
- Cybersecurity engineering & operations
- Operational technology & control systems
More about this community
Draws on: SFIA 9, Government Digital and Data role guidance.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaDelivery management
Turn priorities into progress.
- Project management
- Programme management
- Portfolio management
- Governance & sponsorship
- PMO & TMO
- Planning & scheduling
- Project controls & reporting
- Risk, issues & dependencies
- Agility & flow
- Benefits & value realisation
- Delivery assurance
- Delivery recovery
- Transition & handover
More about this community
Draws on: the APM Competence Framework, government delivery-role guidance.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaPeople & leadership
Help people make change work.
- People strategy
- People leadership & teams
- Learning & development
- Workforce planning
- Recruitment & resourcing
- Talent & succession
- Employee relations
- Reward & benefits
- Employee experience
- Equality, diversity & inclusion
- Workplace wellbeing
- People analytics & insight
- HR services & transformation
More about this community
Draws on: the CIPD Profession Map, the IoIC Profession Map.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaOperations
Make everyday performance better.
- Operational planning & control
- Process management & control
- Service & shared-service operations
- Customer service operations
- Manufacturing & production operations
- Field service operations
- Workforce & capacity planning
- Maintenance & asset reliability
- Facilities & workplace operations
- Quality management
- Continuous improvement
- Performance & productivity
- Operational continuity & recovery
More about this community
Draws on: operational practice; the Shingo Model for sustained improvement.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaSupply chain
Keep goods flowing through uncertainty.
- Supply chain strategy & performance
- Supply network design
- Demand planning & forecasting
- Supply & production planning
- Sales & operations planning / IBP
- Inventory & replenishment
- Procurement & category management
- Supplier & contract management
- Warehousing & order fulfilment
- Transport & logistics
- Returns & circular supply flows
- Supply chain risk & resilience
- Responsible & sustainable supply chains
More about this community
Draws on: ASCM's SCOR reference model.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaGovernance, risk & compliance
Make sound decisions with risks in view.
- Governance design
- Board & committee governance
- Risk management
- Internal controls
- Compliance & regulatory management
- Regulatory engagement
- Ethics & conduct
- Privacy & data protection
- Third-party risk
- Cyber & technology risk
- Resilience & crisis oversight
- Audit & assurance
More about this community
Draws on: IRM and IIA frameworks, the Orange Book, GovS 007.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaFinance & commercial
Make the investment and the deal work.
- Finance strategy & business partnering
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Financial analysis & modelling
- Cost & profitability management
- Investment & business cases
- Funding & corporate transactions
- Treasury & cash management
- Finance operations
- Accounting & reporting
- Tax
- Pricing & commercial models
- Contract strategy & negotiation
- Contract & commercial management
More about this community
Draws on: the Treasury Green Book, CIPS, GovS 008.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaSales & BD
Build relationships. Create sustainable growth.
- Sales & growth strategy
- Prospecting & qualification
- Customer discovery
- Solution selling & pre-sales
- Opportunity & capture management
- Bids & proposals
- Negotiation & closing
- Account management & growth
- Customer success & renewals
- Partnerships & channels
- Sales enablement & coaching
- Sales operations & forecasting
More about this community
Draws on: the ISP Sales Capability Framework, sales occupational standards.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaMarketing
Find, win and keep the right customers.
- Marketing strategy & planning
- Market & customer insight
- Brand & positioning
- Product marketing
- Campaigns & demand generation
- Content & creative
- Search marketing
- Media planning & performance
- Social & community marketing
- PR & reputation
- Customer lifecycle & retention
- Marketing operations & technology
- Marketing measurement & effectiveness
More about this community
Draws on: CIM qualification material, the OASIS campaign approach.
These frameworks inform the capability descriptions and review guidance; they do not imply accreditation or endorsement.
Explore the community criteriaData & AI
Turn data into insight and apply AI responsibly in real work.
- Data & AI strategy
- Data governance & stewardship
- Data architecture & modelling
- Data engineering
- Data quality & master data
- Analytics & business intelligence
- Data science & machine learning
- AI solution engineering
- AI & ML operations
- AI adoption & enablement
- Responsible AI & data ethics
More about this community
Explore the capabilities and the examples that support them.
Explore the community criteriaOrganisation & change
Shape how organisations work and help people make change happen.
- Organisation strategy
- Organisation design
- Organisation development
- Culture & behaviour change
- Change strategy & planning
- Change implementation & adoption
- Internal communication & engagement
More about this community
Explore the capabilities and the examples that support them.
Explore the community criteriaLegal
Apply legal analysis, advice and representation to business decisions, agreements and disputes.
- Commercial contracts
- Corporate & transactions
- Employment law
- Property & construction law
- Intellectual property
- Data & technology law
- Competition & consumer law
- Regulatory & public law
- Banking & finance law
- Tax law
- Restructuring & insolvency law
- Disputes & resolution
More about this community
Explore the capabilities and the examples that support them.
Explore the community criteriaCommunities are shaped by members. We will add others where there is a clear need and people committed to making them useful.
What supports your experience
A living record, strengthened by evidence.
Start with your CV or LinkedIn profile, then build on it as you learn, contribute and deliver. Check your record, add peer reviews and evidence from real work, and choose what to share.
- Core record
- Your living CV: the experience, skills and qualifications you build on as your career develops.
- Checked by you
- You have checked the description of your work and your contribution, and corrected or added to it where needed.
- Peer reviewed
- An experienced practitioner reviews the evidence and confirms what it supports.
- Delivery evidenced
- Evidence from particular work supports your contribution and its outcomes.
Our approach to reviews
Reviews will focus on specific experience and the evidence supporting it. Relevant practitioners will assess what that evidence supports, with relationships and conflicts declared.
Capability level is separate from review status: Foundation, Practitioner, Expert or Mastery. Any level, including Mastery, may be self-assessed. Independent review and full closed-loop delivery evidence are separate, and apply only to the capability and work reviewed. Confirmation from someone involved in the work will be distinguished from independent review. Where evidence is limited, that will be made clear. Members will be able to request corrections and submit additional evidence.
Start simply. Keep your record current as your experience grows. Add evidence alongside the work and skills it supports, and choose what to share.
An example living record.
Delivery managementSupporting evidence from a programme recovery
Delivery evidenced
Business technologyA practitioner’s review of a technology recommendation
Peer reviewed
Organisation & changeThe member has checked their contribution to a change initiative
Checked by you
Business designThe member’s own account of an operating model redesign
Core record
Each label applies to the experience described. You choose what each audience sees.
Illustrative example. Review and evidence apply to the particular work described.
The shape of your experience
Different strengths.
A clearer picture.
Your experience may span several communities. A radar brings that breadth into view, helping people see where you could contribute.
A specialist’s shape may look very different from a generalist’s. What matters is the experience a piece of work needs.
The detail behind each area shows what you have done and the evidence supporting it.
- Business design
- Product & experience
- Business technology
- Delivery management
- People & leadership
- Operations
- Supply chain
- Risk & governance
- Finance & commercial
- Sales & business development
- Marketing
Membership and costs
Start free. Add what helps you work.
For individuals, teams and organisations.
Membership connects you with people and experience. Optional paid tools give you more capacity for your own work or a shared workspace for your team.
Proposed Professional pricing: £25 per month.
Professional
Proposed pricing
£25 / month
More room to think through your work.
- Everything in Core membership
- More Ask Doshin usage for questions and follow-up conversations
- Second-model checks to examine assumptions and gaps
- Save and export useful outputs from your work
Proposed launch features.
Teams and organisations
Proposed pricing
From £150 / month
Bring your team’s context and thinking together.
- Individual access for each team member
- Shared workspaces for questions, documents and useful outputs
- Answers informed by the context your team chooses to share
- Clear controls over private and shared work
Proposed starting price for up to five people. Final pricing depends on team size and support agreed. Shared workspace features are planned for launch.Larger team or organisation? Talk to us.
Paid tools do not buy better standing or priority in recommendations. Paid prices, AI allowances and included tools will be confirmed before paid membership opens. You will see the price and what is included before choosing anything paid.
Getting started
Bring a challenge. Or something to offer.
You might want a useful conversation, help with a problem or a chance to develop your experience. You can begin there.
Membership opens in stages. Register your interest and we will let you know when an invitation is available.
No payment or commitment. Registering your interest does not create a member account.
Before you join
Do I have to be looking for work?
No. Join to seek perspectives, contribute experience or both. Employed, independent, early in your career and between roles all belong.
Can I also find or commission paid work?
Yes. Find opportunities through your experience and evidence, or connect with someone who can help. If you decide to work together, agree scope, rates and terms directly, with no doshin placement fee or rate markup. Explore the ways to work together.
Do I need a CV or an assessment?
No. Start with your role, context and what you want to do. Add supporting evidence when it is useful to you.
Who controls what others see?
Your questions and conversations remain private unless you choose to share them. You choose who can see your professional record. You review assessment findings before sharing them. You can correct facts and respond to findings; reviewers remain responsible for the judgement they sign.
Am I expected to take on work or help others?
No. You decide which requests to consider. Scope, time and any payment are agreed before you accept.
What happens after I register?
We will confirm your interest and contact you as invitations become available. You can decide whether to join then. There is no payment to register.