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Business Operating Assessment
A focused diagnostic to find where time, capacity and execution are being lost, what is causing it, and what is genuinely worth fixing first.
Diagnose → Prioritise → Recommend → Decide
Who it is for
This is useful when the business feels harder to run than it should.
Run Better
- Leadership dependency
- Unclear ownership and decisions
- Recurring operating friction
Simplify & Automate
- Manual work and re-keying
- Tool sprawl or unclear source of truth
- Automation or AI without a clear case
Make EOS Work
- Execution drifts between sessions
- Rocks, Scorecards or actions lose follow-through
- EOS administration is too manual
What happens
A focused diagnostic, not a transformation programme.
01
Prepare
Give concise context before the session.
02
Diagnose
Understand the priority problems and desired outcomes.
03
Review
Map workflow, handoffs and supporting systems.
04
Analyse
Identify root causes and where value appears to sit.
05
Prioritise
Rank interventions by impact, effort and complexity.
06
Decide
Review the report and choose the sensible next step.
What you receive
Clarity, priorities and a practical path forward.
Executive findings
The most important problems and root causes.
Friction + root-cause map
Where work, decisions, information and ownership break down.
Impact x effort priority map
What matters now versus what can wait.
Recommended interventions
What should stop, simplify, systemise, connect or automate.
Now / Next 30 Days / Then
A practical action plan in the right sequence.
Operating Opportunity Report + decision session
The findings documented clearly, then a working session to decide what happens next.
The output
You do not leave with another generic consulting deck.
01Executive findings
The priority problems and root causes.
02Friction + root-cause map
Where work, ownership and information break down.
03Impact x effort map
What matters now versus what can wait.
04Recommended interventions
What should stop, simplify, connect or automate.
05Action plan
Now / Next 30 Days / Then.
06Value view + decision
Defensible commercial or operating impact, then the recommended route.
Results
Execution discipline moved first.
20% → 71%
Quarterly priority completion
First full quarter of execution support.
Execution discipline improved first. Commercial results were unchanged in the first quarter.
Why WAYMAKER
Operator judgement across the whole system.
WAYMAKER is led by Wayne Zwiers, a founder-operator with more than twenty years across business building, commercial leadership, operations and technology. The value is seeing how the parts connect, then fixing the right part.
- 20+ years building and operating businesses
- Founder and CEO experience
- Commercial + operations + technology
- Hands-on implementation and execution
The Assessment stands on its own
Fixed fee. Use the plan your way.
01
No subscription
No obligation to keep WAYMAKER afterwards.
02
No forced technology
No requirement to buy software, automation or an AI project.
03
Yours to implement
Use the report internally. Any implementation is scoped separately against a specific outcome.
Business Operating Assessment · £995
US $1,295 | Europe €1,150 | Fixed fee. No subscription.