Digital Efficiency Consulting Group – Resources
Small improvements create real change.
Most teams don’t have an execution problem. They have a waiting problem. Work piles up behind one team, one person, or one “special process.” Then approvals show up to finish the job: decisions die in inboxes, and “quick sign-off” becomes a two-week vacation.
“Shared ownership” sounds collaborative. In practice, it often means work ricochets between teams until the deadline shows up and somebody takes an emergency bite out of it. Ownership leaks are expensive because they create invisible delays.
If the phrase “process improvement” makes people brace for a multi-month initiative and a flood of meetings, good. That’s your early warning system. A cleanup sprint is not a renovation.
Most strategies don’t fail in a dramatic explosion. They fail the way a shopping cart fails: one wobbly wheel, a squeaky hinge, and suddenly you’re steering with your whole body. If you’re a department leader, you’ve seen it.
Big plans rarely fail because the strategy is wrong. They fail because everyday work is full of small delays, vague approvals, and rework loops that quietly drain momentum. If 2027 is your launch year, 2026 needs a targeted cleanup sprint to remove the top time leaks in the workflows that matter most. This article breaks down the usual suspects and gives a simple two-week plan to stabilize execution and rebuild trust.