Transformation with the shortest line from decision to outcome.
We help enterprise leaders adopt AI, redesign operating models, and manage the workforce transitions that follow — in months, not fiscal years, and without the political drag that stalls most programs.
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Four disciplines, one engagement.
Most firms sell one of these and hope the others follow. We sequence them together, because in the real economy of an enterprise they are the same program under different names.
01 AI Adoption Roadmap
Use-case triage, model & vendor selection, data readiness, and governance for enterprises moving past pilots into production-grade AI systems.
02 Operating Model Redesign
Process, spans-and-layers, decision rights and shared-service architecture — resequenced around what AI now does well and what it does not.
03 Role Rationalization
Function-by-function role mapping, task-level automation exposure, and a defensible target-state org — with the modeling to back it up to the board.
04 Talent Transition & Relocation
Sequencing, communications, statutory compliance and outplacement partnership for workforce changes — designed to protect the retained organization.
Method
The Straight Arrow Method.
A four-phase approach we run as a single sprint. It is opinionated on purpose: the firms that succeed with AI-led transformation are the ones that stop trying to hedge every decision.
Diagnose
Six-week discovery: function economics, task-level workflow capture, and where AI-usable data already exists inside your walls. We end with a target operating model, a value case, and a program shape leadership can defend.
Design
Target org, role dispositions, workflow rewrites, and the platform choices that hold them up. We build the artifacts you would need to move — before anyone is asked to.
Sequence
Communications, statutory timing, retained-org protection, technology cutovers and cost recognition — sequenced against your fiscal calendar. This is the phase most programs skip and later regret.
Deliver
Program-managed execution: the platform work, the org change, the transitions. We stay on the ground until run-rate savings are auditable and the retained organization has stabilized.
"Straight Arrow was the only firm in the process willing to write the plan we actually needed. They then delivered it, on the sequence they promised." — SVP, Global Operations · Fortune 500 industrial group
People
Senior operators, on the engagement.
Our partners have run large functions themselves — operations, technology, HR, finance — before they advised on them. Every engagement is led by one of them, on site, from kickoff through delivery.
Elena Reyes
Mark Halloran
Priya Ramachandran
Johanna Weller
Contact
Start with a conversation.
265 Franklin Street, Suite 1710
Boston, MA 02110
United States
Phone +1 (617) 555-0192
Email hello@straightarrow-consulting.com
Client engagements engagements@straightarrow-consulting.com
We take a small number of new engagements each quarter. If you are considering an AI-led transformation of a function, a business unit or the enterprise, a partner will respond within one business day.
Straight Arrow Consulting is an independent advisory firm. We do not resell software, receive vendor incentives, or accept contingent-fee arrangements tied to workforce actions.