Engagements
We work alongside
your team.
We start where you are. A clear question, or just a hunch. Either is fine.
APHIONE structures the inquiry, helps interpret the evidence, challenges assumptions, and supports the next decision. Your people bring the business context, gather the evidence, develop the options, and carry the work into the organization.
Start a conversation
Agree what the work must resolve
Before an engagement begins, we define the question, the evidence it needs, and the decision the work should support.
We also agree who does what, what you receive, the timing, the measures the work will be judged against, and the stages APHIONE supports. Your sponsor and your team should know exactly what they are committing to.
Build the evidence together
Depending on the question, the work can include leadership conversations, customer visits, market inquiry, scenario development, concept testing, or portfolio assessment.
We help your team separate what it knows from what it assumes.
We can work on our own, or alongside the advisors and implementation partners you already use.
When outside experience would help, we bring in practitioners who have done this work inside companies, and specialists with deeper knowledge of a subject.
Turn findings into a decision and a next step
We make the alternatives and the tradeoffs explicit. The next step may be to test an option, advance it, revise it, or stop.
Work that advances gets owners, measures and review points. The evidence and the reasoning stay with your organization, so the decision can be revisited later.
Examples of our work
We describe engagements by sector, to protect our clients' confidentiality.
A global water treatment company
Cross-functional teams each took a real growth project through the full methodology, in working sessions across several locations. Alongside that work, the Six Keys reached more than 750 employees. The Six Keys are six behaviors that let honest information reach the people deciding.
A regional health system
A cross-functional team studied a key stakeholder group and turned what it learned into a concept. The team sharpened the concept in validation sessions before moving to a pilot.
A medical device manufacturer
Sales, commercial and engineering people visited major customers together and came back with ranked actions to remove friction and strengthen the sales pipeline. Friction means anything that makes it harder for a customer to do business with the company.
An electric utility
Leaders across many functions are building growth strategies and portfolios connected to the annual planning cycle.
A Fortune 200 utility
More than 900 people went through the Six Keys, and we ran a pre and post study alongside the program that showed statistically significant improvement. The Six Keys are six behaviors that let honest information reach the people deciding.
The wine, beer and spirits industry
Our team brought together leaders, experts and regulators from across the industry for a candid conversation about the trends changing it.
An advantage that compounds
Every engagement leaves two things that compound: a record of why, so decisions can be revisited by reopening the assumptions rather than starting over, and a discipline your organization has applied to real work and can use again.
The relationship evolves the same way. We co-lead first, your team takes on more of the discipline, and the practice becomes yours.
Partners outgrow the problem, not the partnership. The challenges get bigger, and the room grows with them.
Start with the decision in front of you
Tell us what your organization is weighing, and we will suggest where to begin.
Start a conversationInvest with clarity. Build what’s next.
