Most portfolio companies try to “hire better people” when the real unlock is installing a simple people operating system that makes average teams perform reliably. The baselayer has three parts—compen...

The age of “advisor OPs” is over. Value is engineered, not advised. The modern Operating Partner owns a platform—budget, bench, playbooks, and proof—capable of landing change across multiple portfolio...

Most CEO onboards start with announcements and slideware. The ones that work start with operating reality—cash, customers, and cadence—and then compound small, verified wins. This is a practical enabl...

“Big-bang ERP” breaks mid-market momentum. The alternative is a sprint-based modernization that swaps monolithic go-lives for compounding wins: stabilize the data, harden the process, instrument the m...

Before you sign an NDA or spin up a full diligence workstream, outside-in signals can reveal growth quality, pricing power, operational friction, and risk hot spots. “Thinking” data rooms start upstre...

Agentic Ops: When to Trust an AI and When to Trap It

Agentic AI can read, decide, and act. That power compounds value only when the system is designed to be reliable, observable, and controllable by ...

Private equity differentiation has shifted from sourcing bravado to operating repeatability at the fund level. FundOps uses shared data, probability cones, and short cadences to see cash earlier, pric...

Working capital is trapped time. The objective is to convert that time back into cash without harming revenue lanes or supplier resilience. This article lays out a precise, 13-week program to release ...

Cash control is an operating system, not a spreadsheet. The goal is a single tile view that the CFO, Controller, and Operating Partner can trust daily. It shows where cash comes from, where it is goin...

Multiple expansion is earned through verified operating systems, not slogans. Buyers test whether revenue is predictable, data is reliable, operations are resilient, security is enforced, and change i...

Most synergy decks read like optimism in slide form. Buyers now want three things: a clean fit story, quantified and probability-weighted synergies that convert to cash, and an integration plan that a...

We need to mange this challenge... or we need to call your Mom!

Objective: preserve time and options by managing to headroom, not just to plan. 

System: a three layer operating model that integra...

Cost to Serve is the part of the P and L that does not talk loudly. It hides in warehouse touches, partial pallets, support tickets, and last mile stops. Two accounts with identical revenue often p...

In every organization, there’s an invisible force silently draining performance — the management tax. It doesn’t show up on financial statements, but it manifests in missed deadlines, poor morale, cus...