
Centralizing back-office work across locations: what to centralize first
Which back-office work multi-location operators should centralize first, who to hire for shared services, and how to onboard newly acquired locations.
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Services / Business Performance & Operations
Improve operations
Processes live in people’s heads, approvals stall in inboxes and every company in the family does the same task a little differently. We assess how work really flows, fix where it jams, and stand up shared services so the business runs the same way every day.
Sound familiar?
What we do
A clear read on where time, money and effort leak out, with fixes ranked by payoff.
Redesign the workflows that slow you down, documented so they don’t depend on one person.
Requests, approvals and handoffs that route themselves and leave a clean audit trail.
Shared finance, HR, procurement or admin functions that serve every company in the family.
Goals turned into an operating plan with owners, milestones and the numbers to track it.
Rollouts your people actually adopt, with training for the office and the field.
That’s what the working session is for. 45 minutes, and you leave with a plan whether you hire us or not.
How we work
Map how work really flows across people, entities and systems.
Redesign the process around how your teams actually work.
Automate approvals and handoffs where it clearly pays off.
Train the office and the field, then cut over cleanly.
Track the KPIs that matter and keep tuning.
What changes
FAQ
We talk with the people doing the work, map how your key processes actually run across your companies and locations, and look at the systems and data behind them. You get a ranked list of where time and money leak out, what it’s costing you, and the first fixes with the biggest payoff.
Not always. Many bottlenecks are process and ownership problems, not software problems. We’re technology agnostic, so we fix the process first and only recommend new tools, integrations or automation where they clearly pay off.
Yes. Multi-entity organizations are a core focus. We design shared services and standard processes that work across every company in the family, while respecting what’s genuinely different about each one.
It depends on scope. Every engagement starts with a working session, then a scoped plan with timeline and budget before you commit to anything.
Adoption is built into how we work. We involve the people doing the work from day one, train office and field teams, and manage the cutover so the new way sticks.
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Working sessions
45 minutes with the operators who would actually do the work. We dig into what’s stuck, rough out what it’s costing you, and map the first move. No pitch deck.
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