Operations

The quiet economics of process redesign

Why incremental process work compounds faster than headline transformation programs.

Daniel Okafor

Daniel Okafor

April 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Boards love transformation programs with bold names and bold numbers. But the most enduring margin improvements we see come from quieter, compounding work: process redesign tied to durable management routines.

Each percentage point of cycle time recovered is reinvested into the next improvement. Over three years, that compounding routinely outperforms big-bang programs.

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