Our Current Ventures
The 3E way
Engage - Structure the business around the flow of perfect value to the customer, making problems obvious and the improvement of flow everyones primary job.
Empower - Now engaged, the critical skill becomes problem solving. You must teach them the orgs method of solving and not only permit it, but insist they execute this practice. Our job is to now improve this process we use to serve our customer.
Excel - With the team now engaged in the businesses problem and empowered to improve their part of the process, set and make clear aggressive daily targets around quality of not the final product, but the quality of how the perfect final product is achieved.
Who are we?
... and what problem are we solving
We are operational experts who have first hand experience at rapidly building profitable, growing and sustainable businesses in industry segments from tech to service to manufacturing, and at developmental stages from start up to IPO and beyond. We bring the knowledge, tools, resources and capabilities to solve the customers problems through our native solutions as well as our partnerships with post start up teams, together turning their great ideas into viable and necessary businesses.
Operational Software Solutions
For most businesses, the problem is... they don't know what he problem is. To better manage growth, work is divided into smaller pieces and suddenly, org charts are prioritized over flow charts, dissolving visibility of the original smooth flow of value for the customer. Divisional and now disconnected, non-customer facing metrics are created and pursued by the new groups. The "stay in your lane" culture is born and almost always, the customers experience is diminished. Now, when things go wrong, all anyone can do is assume "someone screwed up". Typically, white boards are again filled with name and roles assuming that the new people will do better. But, excellence is intentional...it is deliberate. It is rarely achieved through luck, guessing, intuition, collaboration, idea sharing or hiring the right person. Yes, sometimes one unique individual, usually the founder, can drive a business to excellence through sheer will or brute force. But, even these orgs are incredibly rare and in most cases, not sustainable as trying to control or align every decision is impossible at scale.
Clarity exists to bring simplicity to complexity, to prioritize the real value that a business creates for its customer, to simply and quickly bring the facts around the businesses shortcomings to the surface in such a way that everyone, everywhere, every day can deploy "value-able creativity", making the right corrections or improvements and eliminating the bureaucracy and waste the business has unknowingly hard coded into its DNA. Only when everyone is engaged in the actual problem, not just the few at the top, can diversity yield its true value. Clarity serves to bring sustainable levels of performance, an order of magnitude better, at an incredible speed. Clarity is the tool that enables true innovation around how we work to better serve our customer.
"It is not enough to do your best; You must know what to do, and then do your best"
Dr W. Edwards Deming
Accelerator partnerships
Magnitudes view of acceleration is different. We believe in creating profitability early and our approach is to provide the real resources needed for the business to be viable and sustainable, standing on their own and growing not only the business, but their people and the culture needed for long term success. Profitability and culture are not something you can "add on" later. A business with a loved product and no ability to sustainably deliver it, is just an expensive experiment. Magnitude delivers stability, balance and a long view path to success with our partners.
Who do we support?
We work with small to mid size businesses from all sectors who are moving past the start up stage. Those who have developed and proven a viable product or service but are struggling to take the next step.
What do we provide?
We provide a formula and support to organizational success that covers everything from
- Long term business and operational strategy and its appropriate deployment
- Proper financial tools and support
- Robust business processes, their related tools and the expertise to design and deploy them
- Tools for consistency, quality, profitability and global visibility to real time targets and status
- Training and deployment of organization wide problem solving capability
- Mentorship for leaders, managers, supervisors and team members
- Hands on daily support for business transform and stabilization
- Long term partnership with MAG and its combined partners
How do we get started?
1. Whats most important is understanding our fit and if we share the same values. Understanding if you are capable of being partners and have the appropriate courage and long view about success.
2. Understanding your product or service. Does it have good product/market fit? How about your go to market plan? What do the economics look like now and as you grow? How scalable are you?
3. Understanding what a partnership would look like. Whats needed to get you there and how long that might take? What would look different about your business in a partnership with MAG and can you and your team work this way?
