Consulting sells the method once.Intian runs it continuously.
Intian is activity-based management. It connects the work your people do to the strategy it serves and the capability behind it, and keeps that current so decisions are made on how the organisation actually runs.
Twelve months, two ways
DiscoveryDesignAgeingNew scope sold
Two months of discovery and design, a report that ages, then a proposal for the next piece of work. The model stays accurate throughout.
Activity-based management
Three things, read together.
Most organisations track one of these well and guess at the other two. The value comes from connecting them, because each one only makes sense in light of the others.
Activity
What people actually spend their time on, and what each activity costs, described by the people doing it rather than assumed from a job title.
Strategy
Why each activity exists, tied to the priorities and initiatives it’s meant to deliver, so you can see which work moves the organisation forward.
Capability
The skills, qualifications and accreditations your people hold, matched against what each activity actually requires.
When one is missing
Two out of three isn’t enough.
Every organisation has some view of these, usually in separate places. Each gap below is common, and each one is invisible until the three are read side by side.
Right work, wrong people
The priority work lands on whoever is closest, so it gets done slowly, done twice, or done by someone without the accreditation it needs.
Busy and going nowhere
Everyone is capable and flat out, and very little of it is pointed at where the organisation is meant to be heading.
A plan with no line of sight
A strategy and a skills register that never connect to what people actually spend their week doing.
Why it matters
Most decisions run on assumption.
Restructures, hires and budget cuts get made every year on a picture of the organisation that nobody has actually measured.
Your biggest cost is the least visible
Salaries are usually the largest line in the budget, and almost nobody can say what they buy activity by activity.
Decisions run on opinion
Change gets designed around how people describe their work rather than how the time is actually spent.
Strategy stops short of the work
A strategy that isn’t tied to activities stays on the slide, because nobody can see which work delivers it.
Risk hides in one person
Critical capability often sits with a single person, and it only becomes visible when they leave.
What makes it different
Most tools see one side of it.
HR systems hold capability, strategy tools hold priorities and timesheets hold hours. A consulting review connects them once. Intian is built to read all three together and keep them current.
Your people describe their work
Activity comes from the people doing it through a short survey, rather than timesheets or a handful of interviews.
Accreditations, not self-assessment
Capability is matched to the formal qualifications each activity requires, so a gap is a fact rather than an opinion.
Change is modelled first
A restructure, a new role or a vacancy can be tested against cost and capability before anyone is affected by it.
What’s included
In scope, and what’s extra.
Most of what you’ll need is part of the subscription. The bigger pieces are there when you want them, and nothing billable starts without you asking for it.
Part of the subscription
- The platform, with every employee in the model
- 2 licences to see the analysis and recommendations
- Onboarding, run with you rather than sent as a link
- Fortnightly updates that keep the model current
- A read of the results with you each quarter
- Calls to soundboard a decision or check a number
Quoted before it starts
- Strategy development and review
- Leadership and executive facilitation
- Organisational redesign and restructuring
- Operating model and service delivery design
- Change implementation and support
- Workforce and capability planning advice
- Culture and ways of working
Priced well under market rate, and only ever at your request.
Where it lands
See it in your own context.
The method is the same in each case. What changes is the question it answers first.
Worth 20 minutes?
I’ll show you activity, strategy and capability running together on an organisation about your size, and you’ll know quickly whether it’s any use.
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