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Business Improvement

Laconic Partners specialise in defining and simplifying complex organisational problems. We support our business improvement findings with extensive stakeholder engagement and data analysis. This ensures every solution is the right one for your organisation and drives business performance. 

Opportunity Discovery

Early-stage assessment to clarify key issues, pressures and opportunities, and establish where effort should be focused.


We work with stakeholders to quickly build a shared understanding of priorities before significant time, cost or resources are committed.

  • Your day-to-day consists of constantly fighting fires
  • Targets are not being achieved
  • Teams are not engaged 
  • There are capacity constraints that are hard to solve 
  • The business processes seem inefficient
  • You don’t know if business diagnostics are necessary at this stage


  • Deep understanding of the problem
  • Identification of the root cause
  • Capacity and capability assessments
  • People, process, systems, data analysis 
  • Understanding of existing processes and constraints 
  • Analysing the operating model to suit capacity and capability
  • Providing recommendations for continuous business improvement


Business Diagnostic

  

Structured analysis of processes, performance, data and constraints to identify root causes and define targeted improvements.


This provides an evidence-based view of what is driving outcomes and where action will have the greatest impact.

  • Teams that have a problem contained within their boundary 
  • There is a problem within a business function
  • Received a recent audit/review recommendation that needs to be addressed
  • The previous solution did not deliver the expected performance
  • There is inter-organisational problem
  • Need for cross organisational stakeholder engagement for problem definition and solution outcome
  • The problem would be hard to solve using existing organisational resources


  • Validating a problem/recommendation
  • Root cause analysis of the validated problem/recommendation
  • Evaluation of the current state
  • Process mapping where required
  • Assessment of capacity, capability and constraints
  • Prioritised recommendations for business improvement 
  • Independent validation of the problem 
  • Understanding of the problem impact across the organisation
  • Using data to support the problem root cause and solution recommendations
  • Organisational change impact assessment
  • Prioritised recommendations for business improvement
  • Monitoring recommendations to ensure sustainable value creation


Continuous Improvement

Design and support delivery of prioritised improvements in manageable stages aligned to organisational capacity.


This assists maintain momentum while avoiding unnecessary complexity, duplication or change fatigue. 

  • You have received a business diagnostic
  • Have a big problem with a complex multi-part solution 
  • Had an external review that requires several improvements 
  • Limited capacity and budget to execute complex solutions and improvements 
  • Your organisation has change fatigue 


  • Business improvements are planned in bite size chunks 
  • Improvements are released considering organisational capacity for change 
  • Analysis of improvement outcomes on a continuous basis, understanding further efficiencies and scheduling accordingly


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