MAGOS Consulting

Approach

It starts with two to three weeks on site, and it ends with your team running the review without us.

A Management Operating System is how the work gets run, not a report about it. It is the set of routines, meetings, owners and measures that run your business day to day and week to week.

What a discovery covers

The firm
Three equal partners with over 30 years of cumulative consulting experience.
Starts with
A discovery of 2 to 3 weeks on site.
Programs
7 to 40 weeks, then your team runs it.
Commercial
Guaranteed savings structures available, with fees tied to client realized results.
Coverage
On site anywhere in North America.

How an engagement runs

Three phases, one direction: from us to you.

  1. 01

    Discovery, 2 to 3 weeks

    Discovery, on site

    A leadership survey, an assessment of which parts of the operating system exist and which need upgrading, use of time studies for supervisors and mechanics, a working capital baseline read from your ledger, a first tool built on your biggest recurring export, and a findings brief that says what the numbers mean and what to do first. Some clients stop here and act on the brief themselves.

    More on discovery

  2. 02

    Program, 7 to 40 weeks

    The program

    We install the routines area by area, build the tooling as we go, coach every level of management, and run a weekly review on plan, actual, variance and action. Savings are tracked weekly and validated by your finance team. A business review lands every 4 to 6 weeks.

    The six practices

  3. 03

    Handoff, from week 12

    Handoff and sustain

    Your team runs the review unaided, a sustainability audit scores the health of the system and forces corrective action, and the procedures live in your own document system. We leave the tools, the guides and the standards with you.

    The tools you keep

Ownership

Ownership moves from us to your managers.

Weeks 1 to 6

MAGOS led. We run the meetings and build the first measures while your managers watch and take parts of it.

Weeks 7 to 12

Shared. Your managers run it with us in the room, and we coach in the moment rather than taking it back.

Week 12 onward

Client led. Your people own the rhythm. We audit, refresh the tooling and step back.

Before we close

We do not close on a hope.

Three things have to be true first. The tools, the guides and the standards stay with you.

  1. 01Your team runs the weekly review unaided.
  2. 02A sustainability audit is in place to score the system and force corrective action.
  3. 03The procedures are loaded into your own document system.

Commercial terms

How the work is structured, stated plainly.

Guaranteed savings
Guaranteed savings structures are available, with our fees tied to the results your business actually realizes.
Discovery
A fixed scope of 2 to 3 weeks on site, with a findings brief and a working tool at the end of it.
Program length
7 to 40 weeks, set by the size of the business and how many areas go in at once.
Tooling retainer
A standing build and refresh cadence for the hubs and dashboards after the program closes.

Each shape, on the record

A discovery, a short program, and a guarantee.

Next step

Ask us what a discovery would look at in your numbers.

You do not have to be ready to buy anything. One of the three of us will answer the question ourselves.

Ask the principals a question