Leadership group standing at a workshop wall during a facilitated session

Flagship programme

Operating Model for Digital Work

This programme is for sponsors who already own an ERP, CRM, or cloud programme and can feel the organisation slipping back into old handoffs. Over twelve weeks a mixed room of operators, finance, and a vendor counterpart redesigns how work is decided, sequenced, and reviewed.

It is not a coding bootcamp and it will not implement your stack. Graduates leave with artefacts their organisation can run: a decision-rights map, a vendor interface card, and a ninety-day cadence calendar.

Informational fee band: A$18,500 per organisation seat (up to eight named participants). Private rooms priced on enquiry. No online checkout.

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Modules

01

Evidence before ambition

Incident samples, contract clauses, and a live shadow of one painful process. Participants practise writing a one-page constraint brief instead of a vision slide.

02

Decision rights that survive contact

Who may halt a release, who owns master data, who speaks to the vendor. We stress-test the map with a simulated outage, not a RACI template copied from a previous job.

03

Vendor interface cards

A compact artefact covering escalation, data duties, and what “done” means for a change request. Teams rewrite an existing statement of work paragraph in class.

04

Weekly operating cadence

Design a 45-minute review that uses four measures and two decisions. Participants run a dry rehearsal; we critique the theatre that creeps back in.

05

Ninety-day mandate

Sequence, non-goals, and the first calendar. Sponsors present to a sceptical guest reviewer drawn from another cohort or an Apptrailgrid principal.

What you should be able to do afterwards

  • Explain, without a consultant in the room, why a given digital initiative is paused or proceeding.
  • Hand a vendor a one-page interface card that legal can attach to a variation, not a 40-page playbook nobody opens.
  • Run the weekly review for a quarter without inventing new slides each time.
  • Name the work you will not fund this year, in writing.
Portrait of Meredith Cho, programme lead

Programme lead

Meredith Cho

Meredith spent a decade inside a Brisbane logistics group, last as the operator accountable for a warehouse-systems programme that overran and then recovered. She now leads the operating-model room at Apptrailgrid. She does not teach product certifications.

Notes from recent rooms

We came in expecting a framework binder. What we got was a rewritten escalation path with our ERP partner, and a weekly meeting that is shorter than the one it replaced. The homework load in weeks three and four was heavier than the brochure implied; two of our eight people quietly dropped the evening readings.

Helen Walsh, Head of Operations, regional health services

8 / 10

Useful on vendor language. Less useful if your bottleneck is actually a missing integration specialist — we still had to hire one afterwards.

Platform review · participant in the May room

Questions we would rather answer in public

Can a single manager attend without the vendor in the room?

You can, and you will leave with drafts. The artefacts only stick when a vendor counterpart attends at least modules 03 and 04. We will say this again on the enrolment call.

Do you guarantee a successful transformation?

No. We guarantee a set of artefacts and a facilitated critique. Outcomes depend on whether your organisation will fund the non-goals as well as the goals.

What is a real limitation of this programme?

It will not rescue a build that is already technically infeasible, and it will not substitute for industrial-relations work if rostering systems are the political problem. We have declined rooms where the stated issue was “agile” and the actual issue was a locked enterprise agreement. That refusal is part of the method, not a sales objection.

How are fees paid?

By invoice after a written proposal. This website does not take payment. See refund terms and fee bands.

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