The problem
Your strategy changed. Your organisation didn’t. The new plan is running through an operating model built for the old one — and that mismatch is where speed, margin and morale quietly leak away.
Companies pour money into strategy and almost none into the machine that has to deliver it. So decisions stall because nobody knows who holds them, a process nobody redesigned still has forty steps for the seven a customer values, and one unfound bottleneck sets the output of the entire business.
An operating model is a set of deliberate choices about how work gets done. Left to drift, it becomes the reason good strategies fail in execution.
What this book gives you
How to Master Operating Models gives you the 20 frameworks that turn strategy into a working organisation — each a full chapter with the model or map behind it.
- Target Operating Model
- Capability Model
- Decision Rights
- Process Mapping
- Theory of Constraints
- RACI & RAPID
- Value Stream Mapping
- Shared Services
… 20 in all, from operating-model design to the shop-floor bottleneck.
See it move
Map your value stream and separate the time work is actually being done from the time it sits waiting. Most processes are shocking: two weeks of lead time, four hours of real work. Attack the bottleneck the Theory of Constraints identifies and watch total output rise without adding a single person. The map makes the waste impossible to unsee.
Buying more than one category? All 25 books and every one of the 467 models are £29.99 in the Business Framework Omnibus — less than the price of a third book. Prefer to try first? The free Framework Starter Pack gives you five complete chapters and their live Excel models.
20 frameworks. One category. The complete learning path. Every model in Operating Models — explained, applied, and ready to use.
How to Master Operating Models walks you through the complete arc: 20 models, in the order you'd actually learn them, each with a full practitioner chapter and a live Excel companion.
- 20 models across Operating Models, the complete learning path
- Full practitioner chapters plus a live Excel companion for every model
- Written from 30+ years in investment banking, M&A and private equity