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02 — Practice Area

Operations & Efficiency

Find the cost and time hiding in how work actually happens. We map your real processes — not the ones in the manual — and rebuild them around what your customers and people actually need, cutting cost without cutting corners.

Operations review meeting
What this covers

The gap between the process on paper and the one people actually run

Most cost sits in the workarounds — the manual step nobody documented, the approval chain that grew by accident, the report three people compile by hand. We find it by mapping how work actually happens, not how the manual says it should, and rebuild from there.

  • End-to-end process mapping and bottleneck diagnosis
  • Cost-to-serve and margin improvement programs
  • Supply chain and vendor performance reviews
  • Operating model redesign across functions
How it runs

A typical engagement

Map the real process

Sit with the people doing the work, not just the process owners, to find where time and cost actually leak.

Quantify the gap

Turn workarounds and bottlenecks into a clear cost-to-serve picture leadership can act on.

Redesign around the need

Rebuild the operating model around what customers and staff actually need — not the org chart.

Support the rollout

Stay through implementation so the new process survives contact with the day-to-day.

Get in touch

Know cost is hiding somewhere but not where?

Bring James the process, the cost line, or the supplier relationship you're worried about — a first conversation is free and direct.

hello@brodieconsulting.com