The practice · the whole operating loop · three to four weeks
Operations Redesign
For firms of fifty staff and up, where the pain spans several processes and nobody can see the whole loop. The same four moves run wider, plus an intake week and the cross-process synthesis a single-process sprint cannot do.
How the engagement runs
Five stages, sixty to eighty senior hours
The shape is the sprint's, widened. What the wider engagement adds is the part no single-process piece of work can reach: where frictions compound across processes, and what sequence of fixes avoids re-work.
Intake
A systems and data inventory covering what tools exist, what flows between them, and where the spreadsheets are hiding. Volume and cost data gets pulled once for every process in scope.
12 hoursMap and measure
Sprint stages one and two run across each process in scope, at roughly seven or eight hours each now that the intake is shared. Same artifacts, one set per process.
24–32 hoursCross-process redesign
The synthesis the sprint cannot do. Where frictions compound, where one fix clears three ledgers, and what sequence avoids re-work. Options costed against catalogue prices.
12–16 hoursExec verdict workshop
Half a day with the leadership team. Walk the roadmap, contest it, land the decisions and the ninety-day plan.
8 hoursBuffer
Overruns, follow-up questions and write-up polish.
4–8 hoursOperations Redesign
- Three to five processes in scope, agreed at the exec fit call along with who owns each one.
- Sixty to eighty senior hours, capped in the engagement letter the same way the sprint is.
- Everything the sprint produces, once per process: as-run maps, friction ledgers, verdict sheets.
- An operating loop map showing how the processes actually connect.
- A sequenced and costed redesign roadmap that says which fix goes first and why.
- A decision pack and a ninety-day plan, landed in a half-day workshop with the leadership team.
- Scoped build briefs for any build verdicts, written so anyone could quote them.
Who it suits
Firms of fifty staff and up, where several processes are each costing something, the interactions between them are where the real money goes, and no single person can see the whole loop.
Start smaller if you can
If one process is obviously the problem, the Redesign Sprint answers it for $7,500 and takes half the time. We will say so at the fit call.
What is out of scope, in writing
Implementation, ongoing advisory, org design, and anything that resembles a headcount review. The exclusion is in the engagement letter.
What lands on the table
The artifacts, and who they are for
Operating loop map
One page showing how the processes in scope actually hand work to each other, including the handoffs nobody owns. This is usually the first time anybody has seen it drawn.
Friction ledgers
One per process, ranked by dollars per year, built from your wage rates and volumes rather than from benchmarks. The ranking is what stops the loudest problem winning.
Sequenced roadmap
Each fix costed, with a payback figure and a place in the order. The sequencing logic is written down, so you can argue with it rather than take it on faith.