SPEED-BASED OPERATING SYSTEM
Increase the Clock Speed of Your Business with a One-Day Workshop
In just one day, we’ll design your new operating system, and then, if needed, we’ll chair the steering committee that leads your transition to this new operating system. Your investment for the workshop is just $3,000 (and $3,000 a month if you’d like our continued involvement).
Cost versus speed
Almost every business is running a cost-based operating system. The reduction of cost—or the improvement of efficiency—is the default optimization rule that underpins almost every management decision. The prevailing logic is that if we maximize the efficiency of every element of the organization, we end up with a hyper-efficient—and therefore, hyper-profitable—organization.
But this logic is wrong. An attempt to maximize the efficiency of each element of the organization leads inexorably to cost-cutting. Relentless cost-cutting causes the organization to shed protective capacity, which makes it chaotic, unproductive, and, ultimately, less profitable than it otherwise could be.
The alternative is to transition to a speed-based operating system.
The Speed-Based Operating System
In an organization running the speed-based operating system, speed is the default optimization parameter
Every department adopts a relay-racer mode of operation (wait until you’re handed the baton and then sprint to hand it off to the next racer). And, all departments subordinate to whatever is the organization’s primary value-generating process.
Although they may not recognize it explicitly, most fast-growth organizations run the speed-based operating system. And, in some hyper-competitive markets, you have to run this operating system just to survive. But outside of these exceptional cases, almost every organization runs the cost-based operating system, and shareholders (and employees) suffer as a consequence.
Transition to the Speed-Based Operating System
At Ballistix, we transition organizations from the cost- to the speed-based operating system.
We help leadership and management develop a deep understanding of how decisions are made in their organization. Why the pursuit of efficiency—while seeming noble—is damaging the organization’s performance.
We sell the idea of optimizing for speed rather than cost and introduce the organization-wide implications of this radical change in focus.
We help the leadership team to design a practical model for the Speed-Based Operating System—as well as a plan to transition to this new mode of operation.
And then, if necessary, we chair a steering committee that assumes responsibility for leading the transition.
It all starts with a one-day workshop for the leadership team. This workshop delivers both a model and a high-level transition plan.
If our ongoing guidance is required, our participation in the steering committee costs just $3,000 a month, with no minimum term and no exit penalty.
If you complete and submit the form below, we’ll happily send you a proposal that explains this service in more detail.
By the way, both the workshop and the steering committee participation are included in our full-service Managed SPE program.
The end state
The result of transitioning to the Speed-Based Operating System is that the organization as a whole is optimized for speed.
That’s the speed at which operating profit is generated and the speed at which growth initiatives are run.
Each department marches to a speed-based metric (just like the standard on-time delivery metric in production environments).
All metrics reference the rate at which operating profit is generated, not just the rate at which work is performed locally. And, every department has a real-time visual display of that metric on a dashboard that can be accessed by any team member, anywhere on the planet!
Request overview
To learn more about the Speed-Based Operating System Workshop, please submit the form and we will send you an overview.
