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Transformation Design

Design the transformation before you build it.

Problem

The strategy isn't landing yet.

The direction is set. A growth bet. A cost program. A customer experience ambition. An AI pivot. A core system renewal that's going to reshape how the work actually happens. Leadership has decided. But the strategy is still abstract on paper, and the operating model underneath is from the last one. Roles built for the old setup. Decision rights scattered across units that used to matter. Processes designed when the business looked different. The friction shows up everywhere and nobody has the mandate, or the bandwidth, to translate strategy into how the business should actually run.

Solution

I design the business side of the transformation.

We start where the work actually is. Sometimes that's translating an abstract strategy into something the organization can execute against, defining what it means in practice, mapping the path forward. Sometimes it's redesigning one business area: the operating model, the process architecture, the business requirements for a core system renewal, or the business model itself. Sometimes it's the whole picture, multiple domains designed together before the build starts. The output isn't a deck. It's a concrete design leadership can approve, fund, and hand to execution.

How it works

Frame what needs to be designed

We define what this engagement is actually about. Is the strategy concrete enough to design against, or does it need to be translated first? Which area or areas are in scope? What's off-limits because something else is already moving? Ambitious enough to matter, bounded enough to finish.

Design the target

Through interviews and workshops with leadership and operational stakeholders, we design the target. What that covers depends on the scope: a concrete translation of the strategy, an operating model, a process architecture, business requirements for a core system, a business model, or a combination. We test it against the real scenarios the current setup keeps tripping on.

Package the decision

You get a decision-ready recommendation: the target design, transition path, impact, dependencies, and the next step. Ready to be approved, funded, and handed to an implementation lead or the next engagement.