The Operating Model Advantage™
Translating Strategy into the Structures, Capabilities and Ways of Working Required to Deliver
Download Course BrochureFlexible delivery options to suit your leadership team and organisational needs.
Duration
5 Days
Certificate
Executive Certificate
Level
Executive / Senior
Format
In-Person
Delivery Mode
The course combines expert facilitation, operating-model frameworks, organisational diagnostics, design scenarios, case analysis and practical application. Participants examine operating models as interconnected organisational systems rather than organisational charts. Through current-state analysis, design exercises and future-state modelling, participants develop practical approaches for aligning organisational components and creating operating models capable of delivering strategy effectively.
Online
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 30th – 4th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
In Person
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 30th – 4th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: Madrid
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: Paris
Fee: £4,495
Online
Date: 14th – 18th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 21st – 25th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 28th – 1st Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Introduction
This LOCEPX Training course equips leaders to design and strengthen operating models that translate organisational strategy into effective execution. This LOCEPX Training course develops the capability to connect strategy with the practical architecture of the organisation, ensuring that structures, processes, people, capabilities, technology, data, governance and decision-making work together to deliver intended outcomes.
A strong strategy can fail when the organisation is not designed to deliver it. Responsibilities may be unclear, processes fragmented, decisions slow, capabilities misaligned and technology disconnected from the way work actually happens. The Operating Model Advantage™ provides leaders with a structured approach for understanding how the organisation currently operates, identifying where the model constrains performance and designing a future operating model aligned with strategic priorities. Participants will examine the interconnected components of an operating model, make deliberate design choices, define decision rights and accountabilities, and determine the capabilities required for successful execution. The programme moves beyond organisational structure alone to create an integrated model for how value is delivered across the enterprise.
Strategy and transformation leaders
Operating model and organisational design leaders
Business and functional leaders
Programme and change leaders
Digital, technology and operations leaders
Executives & Senior Leaders
Strategy & Transformation Leaders
Operating Model & Organisational Design Leaders
Business & Functional Leaders
Participants will leave the Programme with stronger strategic capability and practical approaches that can be immediately applied within their organisations.
The Operating Model Advantage™ framework
Current-state operating-model diagnostic
Strategic design principles
Target operating-model blueprint
Roles and decision-rights framework
Capability and process alignment model
Operating-model gap assessment
A target operating-model transition roadmap
Translating organisational strategy into operating-model requirements
Diagnosing weaknesses within the current operating model
Aligning people, processes, technology, data and governance
Designing structures, accountabilities and decision rights
Building a practical transition from current to target operating model
Translate strategy into operating-model requirements
Diagnose current operating-model strengths and gaps
Design integrated future operating models
Align structures, capabilities and decision rights
Develop a practical operating-model transition roadmap
Strategy-to-Operating
Model
Operating Model Diagnosis
Target Operating Model Design
Governance & Decision Rights
Implementation & Transition
Core Areas
Understanding what an operating model is and why it matters
Distinguishing strategy, business model and operating model
Translating strategic ambition into operating requirements
Understanding how organisations create and deliver value
Identifying critical organisational capabilities
Examining strategic choices that influence operating-model design
Establishing operating-model design principles
Defining the required outcomes of the future model
Building an evidence-based current-state view
Examining organisational structures and responsibilities
Mapping critical end-to-end processes
Assessing capabilities and workforce requirements
Understanding technology and data enablement
Evaluating governance and decision-making
Identifying fragmentation, duplication and bottlenecks
Defining critical operating-model gaps
Translating strategic requirements into future-state design
Defining the target organisational structure
Designing end-to-end processes and ways of working
Establishing roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
Defining organisational capability requirements
Designing interfaces across functions and business units
Aligning the model around value delivery
Building the target operating-model blueprint
Designing effective governance arrangements
Establishing clear decision rights
Determining where authority should sit
Designing effective escalation pathways
Aligning technology with operating-model requirements
Understanding data requirements and ownership
Integrating performance information into decision-making
Creating an interconnected organisational model
Assessing the gap between current and target models
Prioritising operating-model interventions
Understanding organisational dependencies
Sequencing structural, process and capability changes
Assessing organisational readiness
Establishing ownership for implementation
Measuring operating-model effectiveness
Developing The Operating Model Advantage™ transition roadmap
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