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Discovery is a timebound, comprehensive business assessment for leaders preparing to improve operations, introduce innovation, or transform an engineering system. Establish how the work runs today and define what should change before committing to delivery.
Discuss DiscoveryName the business outcome, sponsor, assessment boundary, and decisions the work must support.
4–6 weeks · $22,000–$40,000
Bring a business unit, value stream, or operational challenge into focus. We assess the processes, people, systems, information, and physical constraints within an agreed boundary, then build a practical basis for investment and execution.
The engagement runs for 4–6 weeks. The proposal fixes the start and finish, assessment scope, review milestones, and fee within the $22,000–$40,000 range. Breadth, number of sites, stakeholder access, and depth of analysis shape the scope; site visits and travel arrangements are specified in the proposal.
Examine how requests, information, decisions, and approvals move through the business. Identify queues, repeated work, unclear ownership, disconnected systems, and opportunities to improve service, quality, and flow.
Define where process redesign, clearer operating practices, automation, or AI could make a useful contribution.
Assess manufacturing, production, processing, and other engineering operations. Connect material flow, equipment, capacity, quality, reliability, and operating constraints to the business outcome.
Consider the coordination between people, physical assets, controls, maintenance, and supporting information systems when defining the transformation.
Cory Nation brings direct business transformation experience across automotive, oil & gas, aerospace & defense, healthcare, and software. The assessment combines an engineering perspective with commercial priorities and the practical conditions under which teams operate.
The assessment produces the evidence and recommendations leadership needs to decide what to fund. Approval and funding remain with your organization.
Agree the business outcome, assessment boundary, sponsor, stakeholder access, relevant sites, and evidence needed.
Interview the people doing and receiving the work, review available records, and examine process and system behavior. Validate the current operating picture together.
Compare improvement options and shape the future operating model. Connect opportunities to business measures, dependencies, and practical implementation needs.
Review the assessment and roadmap with leadership. Choose the first initiatives, their owners, and the evidence needed for the next investment decision.
Discovery fits organizations that need a comprehensive view before choosing transformation initiatives. An executive sponsor and an operational counterpart help coordinate access to people, relevant records, and sites within the agreed scope.
If the priority is already clear and the question is limited to one workflow, a focused opportunity and decision sprint may be a better starting point.
Discovery delivers an assessment and a roadmap. Implementation, equipment changes, detailed engineering design, technology licenses, and ongoing leadership are scoped as subsequent work. Continue with a focused implementation or fractional executive engagement when that serves the roadmap.
Tell us what needs to work better.
Discuss Discovery