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Every organization wants to move faster on what matters most: faster time to market, better customer experience, smarter use of new technology. The ambition is rarely the problem. What holds it back is that this kind of impact never lives inside one department. It runs across sales, operations and IT, and each of them shows up with a different budget, a different mandate and a different idea of what should happen first.

And resolving those differences requires someone to make choices across departmental boundaries. Who can move funding, change a priority or accept a delay elsewhere? If teams are expected to deliver a shared outcome but continue to be funded and assessed against separate targets, the same disagreements can survive every reorganisation. Changing the model means deciding whose authority, incentives and responsibilities must change with it.

That’s where the operating model becomes tangible. What is working well today, and what needs to evolve as business demands change? How should business and technology teams share ownership, funding and decision-making? How do we organise people, processes and technology so that work moves across departments without getting stuck between them? And how do we know whether a new model has improved delivery or simply moved the same disagreements into different meetings?