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Operating Model

Professional Strategy Buzzword General

How the org actually runs: who decides what, who does what, how money and information flow. Redesigned every few years, at consulting rates, into a diagram that resembles the last one.

Heard in the wild

“The new operating model centralizes procurement — again.”

Tone check: Professional

Centralize, decentralize, repeat. The cycle is roughly seven years; veterans have seen the slide before.

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