Mark Blackwell
The Operating Model Challenge
Is your organisation struggling to consistently implement its strategy? An operating model is the practical system that enables your business to implement strategy and deliver results. It’s the bridge between strategic intent and operational reality—translating “the why and the what we want to achieve” into “how we’ll achieve it” daily.
Effective operating models encompass organisational structures, business processes, governance mechanisms, roles, performance metrics, and supporting technologies. Over time, even the best models can drift out of alignment with evolving strategies and market conditions.
When revitalisations are done properly, they dramatically improve performance and competitiveness. When implemented poorly, they create confusion and resistance.
The "Do It With You" Arkaro Advantage
Arkaro’s distinctive approach combines technical expertise with collaborative implementation methods that build lasting capabilities. Unlike consultants who deliver recommendations and leave, we work alongside your team using our four-stage methodology:
1. Understand We assess why change is needed from both cultural and technical perspectives by understanding business objectives, identifying bottlenecks, conducting stakeholder interviews, and gauging organisational readiness.
2. Co-create We collaboratively build roadmaps, establish decision structures, and facilitate design sessions that leverage both our expertise and your organisational knowledge to create tailored solutions.
3. Enable Our consultants work alongside your team, providing coaching during implementation challenges. We support the transition through pilot programs and feedback loops while helping design clear roles and reporting lines.
4. Sustain Our engagement includes periodic revisits to address weaknesses that might limit potential gains, ensuring changes become permanently embedded in your operations.
Key Operating Model Components
Our approach addresses several critical elements:
Strategy Validation: Ensuring alignment between your operating model and strategy framework, creating coherence between objectives and day-to-day operations.
Customer & Market Alignment: Addressing disconnections between internal processes and evolving customer needs through clear product positioning, customer segmentation, and value propositions.
Operational Excellence: Identifying and resolving inefficiencies that undermine supply chain effectiveness and erode margins. Our analysis often uncovers unofficial workarounds that manifest as excessive inventories and unnecessary complexity.
Integrated Processes: Breaking down silos through frameworks like Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) that connect strategy with day-to-day execution.
The Outcomes You Can Expect
Our partnership approach ensures:
· Sustainable change: Building your team’s capability to evolve the operating model independently
· Practical solutions: Developing tailored approaches that work within your specific context
· Real ownership: Creating genuine commitment through co-creation
· Faster implementation: Accelerating learning through collaboration
About Arkaro
Arkaro specialises in Innovation Process, Product Management, Commercial Excellence, Supply Chain and Integrated Business Management across Agriculture, Food, and Chemicals sectors. We combine practical business experience with formal consultancy training.
Is your organisation struggling with fragmented processes, siloed functions, or an inability to respond quickly to market changes? Let’s start a conversation about how our methodology could help revitalise your organisation’s effectiveness.
“We don’t just coach – we get on the pitch with you”
