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.
Innovation Manager
Multi-function operations
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.