CASE STUDY

Operating Model & Leadership Alignment: Professional Services

ENGAGEMENT SNAPSHOT

CLIENT:

Global Enterprise Technology Company

ORGANIZATION::

Professional Services, Delivery Practice

SIZE OF ORGANIZATION IN SCOPE::~200

Growing delivery practice had scaled quickly, but leadership lacked a way to run it as one coherent organization. Its reputation with sales was inconsistent: sales teams at times committed engagements the practice was not staffed or equipped to deliver, and with no feedback loop from delivery to sales, the consultants who best understood the customer's most pressing challenges had no channel to inform the follow-up proposals sales should have been making. Knowledge sharing was similarly underdeveloped, leaving consultants to rebuild deliverables rather than adapt existing templates, which lengthened the time needed to complete customer deliverables. The practice also lacked a value proposition simple enough for sales to convey with confidence, and no cadence connected daily decisions to leadership's strategic priorities. The client needed to design, architect, and implement a redesign of its operating model - from facilitation through activation.

THE CHALLENGE

WHAT THE CLIENT WALKED AWAY WITH

Organizational Design:

Defined 7 specialized delivery capabilities, forming dedicated capability teams each led by a capability lead..

Operating Cadence:

Embedded governance across operational, tactical, and strategic cadences - each tier mapped to specific decisions.

Stakeholder Engagement

Built a single-threaded-owner model connecting each capability to its sales, account, and program stakeholders.

Performance Framework

KPIs and pipeline-contribution targets defined and tracked by region and expertise.

Governance Mechanisms

Defined a portfolio steering committee, functional governance boards, and documented decision rights across business and digital roles.

Activation Roadmap

Phased rollout plan with named owners and milestones across 3-month timeline.

EXPECTED BUSINESS OUTCOMES

2-6x

Pipeline growth achieved across all regions

17%

Reduction in time-to-kick-off for new engagements

26%

Reduction in new-hire onboarding time

Improved

engagement delivery quality