Operating model workshop for leadership teams

Operating model workshop: an organisation that carries your strategy

Our operating model workshop helps your leadership team decide how the company must work so the strategy shows up in daily business: structure, roles, decision rights and steering. In two days you agree a target picture everyone understands and a plan to get there – with owners and OKRs.

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Hamburg-based, on site wherever your team meetsOne or two senior partners, as your team needsLeadership team plus owners of key interfaces

What your team leaves with

Design principlesA few clear rules every future decision is measured against
A target operating modelStructure, roles and interfaces on one page
Clear decision rightsWho decides, who is consulted, who is informed
A 90-day transition planOwners, milestones, OKRs and a steering rhythm

How it works

How the operating model workshop works

Three phases: a short diagnosis, two days in the room and 90 days of guided transition. The plan is a proposal – in the briefing we adapt it to your situation and agree how you will measure success after the operating model workshop.

Phase 1 · Diagnose

Where the organisation slows you down

Interviews and a short survey: where do decisions take too long, where is work duplicated, where is ownership missing?

Phase 2 · Workshop

Two days from bottlenecks to a target picture

The leadership team agrees design principles, compares options and chooses the operating model that fits the strategy.

Phase 3 · Transition

90 days until the new model runs

Owners work through the transition plan. A monthly steering meeting removes blockers; after 90 days we review together what works.

In the room

Two days in the operating model workshop

Day one creates a shared view of bottlenecks and principles. Day two turns them into a target picture and a transition plan.

DAY 1
Strategy, bottlenecks and principlesLeadership team
Strategy in one sentence
What must the organisation deliver in three years? The CEO sets the direction, the team sharpens it.
Today’s organisation
Interview and survey results as a gallery: what works, where it sticks, which interfaces cost the most time?
Design principles
Five to seven principles, such as: decide close to the customer, one owner per result.
Develop options
Mixed groups sketch variants for structure, roles and collaboration.
DAY 2
Target picture, decision rights and planLeadership team decides
Assess the options
Each variant against the principles: impact, risk, effort. The team chooses the target picture.
Decision rights
A clear matrix for the most important decisions: who decides, who is consulted, who is informed.
Steering
Which meetings, metrics and OKRs keep the new model running – and which committees can go?
Agree next steps
Transition plan, owners and one shared message for the organisation.

Is this the right format?

When an operating model workshop pays off

  • The strategy is clear, but the organisation still works the old way.
  • Decisions take too long because nobody is sure who makes them.
  • The company has grown, and the structure no longer fits.
  • After an acquisition or restructuring, roles need to be reset.

Related formats

Post merger integration workshop

After a deal: two leadership teams become one, with a 100-day plan. The post merger integration workshop →

Cost reduction workshop

Savings your teams find, own and deliver. The cost reduction workshop →

Leadership workshop

One day on alignment, decision rights and a steering rhythm. The one-day leadership workshop →

Who you work with

Two senior partners: organisation and execution in one team

Oliver brings corporate development, efficiency and change experience; Joern designs the process that brings leadership and teams into the work. The result is an organisation your team designed itself – which is why it lives it.

Oliver Pasdzior, partner at Stryke Consulting

Oliver Pasdzior

Partner · Strategy, growth and transformation

Over 15 years in corporate development and strategy execution, formerly an executive at major corporations. Leads growth, efficiency and change initiatives with analytical clarity and a pragmatic feel for the people side.

Joern Steinz, partner at Stryke Consulting

Joern Steinz

Partner · Facilitation, execution and OKRs

Facilitating leadership teams since 2014, more than 60 OKR engagements and over 1.000 workshops. Formerly a consultant at Accenture and in corporate development at XING. MBA, EADA Business School Barcelona.

Strategy workshops and offsites for the leadership teams of

Domino’s PizzaESAHarvey NormanHERO SoftwareSagaStevanato GroupTildeZertus Group

Further clients

AllianzBayerBrown-FormanDHLeBayLufthansaMcKinseySiemensVolkswagen

Questions

Questions about the operating model workshop

What is an operating model workshop?

An operating model workshop is a facilitated session in which the leadership team decides how the company must work to deliver its strategy: structure, roles, decision rights and steering. With us it takes two days, with interviews beforehand and a 90-day transition plan afterwards.

What is an operating model?

The operating model describes how a company actually works: who decides what, how functions collaborate, and which processes and metrics steer daily business. It connects the strategy with everyday work.

Is this about a new org chart?

Partly. Boxes and lines are the visible part. Clear decision rights, fewer interfaces and a simple steering rhythm usually have more impact.

Who should take part?

The leadership team, plus people who own key interfaces if needed. The people who will live the new model should be in the room.

What happens after the two days?

Owners start the transition plan right away. On request we support the transition, facilitate the steering meetings and review after 90 days what works.

Where does the workshop take place?

At a venue of your choice. We are based in Hamburg and come to wherever your team meets, in English or German.

Next step

Let’s plan your operating model workshop

Tell us where your organisation slows you down today and what the strategy needs from it. We shape the two days around the decisions your leadership team has to make. We look forward to hearing from you.

Get in touch

hello@stryke-consulting.com · 0049 175 566 4329 · Hamburg · Deutsche Version


Strategy development and execution · Hamburg