RAPID RESULTS | FIXED TEAM | FIXED TIMELINEHOW WE DO ITBaseline & Prioritisation
The evidence before the investment.
Who this is for
Leadership teams about to commit - to technology, hires or a new operating structure - who want the decision grounded in evidence rather than instinct or internal politics. Also the right starting point when transformation has stalled and nobody agrees on why.
What happens
Two workstreams run in parallel:
Discovery is qualitative: structured interviews with managers and practitioners, deep-dives into the areas of friction, and the expert judgement of people who do the work every day.
This is where root causes surface - the manual workarounds, the undocumented decisions, the places the operating model hasn't kept pace with the business.
Every interview, survey response and document is analysed together, surfacing patterns no single conversation would reveal - with each finding traceable back to who said it, where, and when.
That traceability matters when findings are heading to your executive committee. Fleming, the AI platform we built for regulated work, is what makes this possible in weeks rather than months.
The interpretation stays with senior practitioners throughout: evidence doesn’t replace judgement, it improves it.
The engagement ends with a two-day leadership workshop.
Day one plays back the evidence - what we found and what it means - and puts a cost on inaction.
Day two is where decisions get made: which opportunities to pursue, in what sequence, and who inside the business owns each one.
Data is quantitative: a structured survey across the relevant roles - lightweight for respondents, rich for analysis - compared against your top-down data such as timesheets, org charts and system metrics.
This quantifies the opportunities at scale while capturing task-level friction.
What you walk away with
A research summary shared ahead of the workshop, so the conversation in the room starts at insight, not information gathering
Prioritised change areas with quantified opportunity cost - the document that goes in front of a board
A sequenced action plan separating immediate impactful wins from the medium-term target state
An executive decision pack built to travel - carrying the evidence and rationale through leadership layers, board conversations and the business cases that follow
What it leads to
Most clients take the top priorities into Experiments - proving value before any big build commitment - or into the GenAI Strategy Programme where the opportunity calls for redesign rather than repair. Neither is assumed. The baseline is designed to stand on its own.