Are we too small — or too big — for you?

Headcount is the wrong measure, and so is turnover.

What actually predicts a good project

One person can say yes. Not a committee, not a quarterly board slot. If a decision needs four people to align, the project will move at the speed of the slowest diary and the cost of that is real.

The problem is worth more than the fix. A process eating a day a week is worth serious money at any company size. A process eating an hour a month is not, whatever your turnover.

Somebody will own it. Not sponsor it — own it. Answer questions, make calls, chase their own colleagues for feedback.

Too small

If you are two people and the process runs for twenty minutes a week, you do not need me. Buy the off-the-shelf tool, or keep the spreadsheet. I will tell you that on the call and it costs me nothing.

Too big

If your procurement process takes six months and requires a supplier with two hundred staff, I am the wrong shape and we would both be frustrated. That is not a criticism of either of us.

The businesses where this works best tend to be the ones where the owner or a director still knows how the work actually gets done, and can get me in front of the people doing it inside a fortnight.