Services · 6 to 8 weeks

Planning and structure

A plan the whole leadership team can hold: clear owners, a sensible structure, and the few numbers that tell you it is working.

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A growing business often keeps the structure it had at a third of its size. Planning and structure gives it one that fits, and a plan the whole leadership team can hold.

What changes

Each part of the business gets one clear owner. Meetings get fewer and shorter. The owner stops being the only person who can make a decision.

The scorecard

We agree on the few numbers that tell each leader whether things are on track, and set up the weekly routine to look at them. Most scorecards have five to eight numbers. If it needs more, it is a report, not a scorecard.

What you keep

The plan, the role outlines and the scorecard are yours, in plain documents your team can edit. Nothing depends on our software or on us.

Planning and structure

How it runs

Where you are now
Weeks 1 to 2
Interviews with the leadership team and a look at how the business is organized today, on paper and in practice.
Options for the structure
Weeks 3 to 4
Two or three ways to organize, each with its trade-offs written down plainly.
The operating plan
Weeks 5 to 6
Twelve months of priorities, each with one owner, a budget and a date.
The scorecard
Weeks 7 to 8
The handful of numbers each leader looks at every week, and where they come from.

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Questions

Will you tell us who to hire or let go?

We design roles, not people. We will tell you which roles the plan needs and how they relate. Who fills them is your decision, and we will help you think it through if you ask.