Why 90 days of workshops fail, and a 48-hour demo doesn't.

You know the script: first a preliminary study, then a series of workshops, interviews with all stakeholders, a blueprint, a steering group. Months later there is a report, and still nothing that works. We turn that order around.

Why the classic approach gets stuck

First this: if you ever ran such a project, that was not a foolish choice. For years it was the only way, the people who ran it did their best, and sometimes it genuinely delivered. The problem is not the effort and not you. It is the method.

Knowledge that travels through meetings loses a piece of truth at every handover. In a workshop, people describe how the work is supposed to run; on the shop floor it runs just a little differently. By the time the blueprint is finished, it describes an organisation that doesn't quite exist. And because months are spent talking about something abstract, everyone can disagree about it endlessly: there is nothing to point at.

You can debate a concept forever. Not a working demo.

The reverse order

We start with one conversation of an hour, in which we capture how your process really runs. Within 48 hours there is a working version of a completely new, improved process in a simulation environment. Then we go through that demo together, live.

A working demo is communication without loss: nobody has to imagine anything, everyone is looking at the same thing. From that moment, every conversation changes in kind. You are not discussing what might be possible, but what is running in front of you: is this step right, what does it deliver, what should change. That conversation is shorter, more concrete and far easier to have internally. And it can be this fast because we don't start from zero: our framework is standardised, built on more than twenty years of experience in ICT and context modelling. Only your context is new.

The whole journey, in four verifiable steps

A one-hour intake. A working demo of your own process within 48 hours. One hour to go through it together, live. And then your decision, based on numbers, at a fixed project price if you want to continue. Never unexpected costs afterwards.

And perhaps the most important difference with every project you have seen before: you don't have to believe us. In 48 hours, you'll know.

Arjan van Unen — CMO, Model My Context