Transformation that works* on Mondays
unbelievably good!
Great people are our foundation.
What slows them down is rarely their skill – it is usually the structure around them.
Plenty of people can find the bottleneck. We also fix it – in the organisation, in the workflow or in the IT.
What “works on Mondays” means …
A change that still holds once we are long gone and the first stressful Monday arrives. Three things have to fit together for that: how you are organised, how the work flows and what it rests on technically. Touch only one of them and it holds until the next quarter.
- We start with a measurement, not with a concept.
- Our approach is based on data and facts to make progress measurable.
- It is not the goals that make us successful, but the systems we establish.
- We leave when it runs without us – not when the concept is finished.
Why it adds up here …
In every system exactly one place is holding things up. Improve anywhere else and you are busy, not faster. And that place almost never sits inside a team, it sits between two. Whoever drew that boundary was the org chart. So finding the bottleneck is not enough. You have to be allowed to change the structure that keeps producing it.
- The Theory of Constraints tells you where your bottleneck sits today.
- Conway's Law tells you where it came from – and why it comes back.
- Pull at one corner only and you build one of three ruins: reorg carousel, method theatre or distributed monolith.
- That is why we work in three places at once. Not out of thoroughness, but because otherwise the bottleneck returns.
What comes out of it …
Since 2018 we have been rebuilding organisations, workflows and IT systems – pragmatic, hands-on, and across industries. From a single team to an entire company, from on-premise to the cloud at a hyperscaler.
- In almost 80% of cases, our clients expand the original engagement. Because they value our ability to deliver.
- More than 90% of our clients hire us again for new challenges. Because they know we put in the work.
- We find your bottleneck – and the structure that keeps producing it. For example: 20 days down to 5, SAFe implementation without external help, unified IT within 12 months after a merger.
Three disciplines, one bottleneck
Three doors, one room.
You change a responsibility in a meeting. A workflow in a quarter. An architecture in a year.
Organisation, Process, IT – the same decision at three levels of hardness. That is why we take it together instead of one after another. Come through the door that hurts right now.
- A strong operating model cannot be bought – but there are good templates to start from!
- Anyone can run standard processes – self-designed and genuinely lived processes are the competitive advantage!
- Everyone wants micro-services, but the right software architecture might well be the monolith!