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Fortune 500 enterprise · Anonymised · Strategy · 2025

Scale, made coherent.

A large-scale operational problem spread across multiple business functions — no single owner, no shared picture. Turned into a prioritised transformation roadmap leadership could fund and act on.

Role

Innovation Manager

Scope

Multi-function operations

Output

Transformation roadmap

The premise

Every big problem is really a room full of smaller ones.

Operational pain at enterprise scale rarely has one cause or one owner. Everyone sees a different slice, defends a different fix, and the debate runs by email for months. The job was to get the whole room agreeing on the question first — then to prioritise the moves by value, complexity and risk, so a decision could actually be made.

The work

Discovery, validation, prioritisation.

Map the real problem

Cross-functional discovery to separate symptoms from causes and surface the constraints no single team could see alone.

Validate & prioritise

Test the assumptions, then rank the opportunities on business value against implementation complexity and risk — the honest trade-offs.

Roadmap & recommend

A transformation roadmap and executive recommendation: what to do, in what order, and what to leave alone for now.

A well-run room decides in a day what email debates for a month.
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