2.0Operating Model · How you run it
The four models

How the work gets done — with one owner on each part.

"Who owns this?" gets answered in seconds, not in a meeting. The bottleneck stops being you.

Your value chain — tap a step

Owner

Marketing

Decision right

Owns the message and the budget for reach.

First 90 days

Stand up one channel that brings 20 qualified leads/month.

Tap any step to see who owns it and the first 90-day move.

2.2How the business runs

The same work, seen four ways — where it flows, where the chaos clears, who decides, and what depends on what.

Swimlane — how the work moves

From lead to renewal — every handoff has an owner

SalesDeliveryFinanceLeadDeliverBillRenewQualifyKick offShipInvoiceRe-sell

Illustrative. Your real lanes are mapped from your own value chain.

Before → after

From tangled and unowned — to clean, one owner each

Today — who owns this?

After — one owner each

  • Lead comes inSales
  • Quote & closeSales
  • Deliver the workDelivery
  • Send the invoiceFinance
  • Follow up & renewSuccess

Illustrative. The four-model build does this to your real process.

Decision rights — RACI

Who decides, who does, who's consulted

DecisionFounderSalesDeliveryFinance
Price & discount
A
R
·
C
Hire / no-hire
A
C
C
I
Delivery standard
I
·
A
·
Refund a customer
I
·
A
C
Spend under 5k
I
R
R
A
AAccountableRResponsibleCConsultedIInformed

Illustrative. A = Accountable (the one owner). R = Responsible · C = Consulted · I = Informed.

Systems map — what depends on what

Process feeds system, system makes the output

ProcessSystemOutputTake ordersDo the workCRMOps boardInvoice sentCash in
data flowtriggersproduces

Illustrative. Your real map shows where one broken link stalls the chain.

2.1Who decides what

Who decides what

Decision rights, written down — so people stop waiting on you for small calls.

DecisionDecidesInput
Price & discountFounderSales proposes
Hire / no-hireFounderLead recommends
Refund a customerService lead
Spend under SAR 5kTeam leadno sign-off

The 90-day path

Not a binder. A short, ordered run from today to a business that holds without you.

  1. Days 0–30

    Stop the bleed

    Fix the one process that loses money or time today.

  2. Days 31–60

    Set the owners

    Every core step gets a name. Decisions stop pooling at the top.

  3. Days 61–90

    Make it repeat

    Write the playbook so the result holds without you in the room.

The bottleneck stops being you.

With the work mapped and owners named, the next question is who fills those roles — that's the People Model.