Business notes

What the problem turned out to be.

Short observations from real engagements. The presenting problem is rarely the real one: a process problem turns out to be about people, a technology problem about management. These notes collect what we learn, one problem at a time.

Published notes

No notes are published yet. Each note will come from an actual business problem; the first are being written now.

In preparation

  • Process → People

    A process problem that turned out to be a people problem

    M07 · M19 · M22

  • Technology → Management

    A technology problem that turned out to be a management problem

    M06 · M26 · M42

  • Operations → Economics

    How changing a supplier changed the economics of an offering

    M04 · M16 · M36

  • People → Institutionalisation

    What employee onboarding revealed about institutionalisation

    M13 · M23 · M62

  • Growth → Founder dependency

    How an owner became the bottleneck in their own business

    M08 · M20 · M21

Know what needs attention.