A senior operator for one cross-functional operating problem.
You have executives and you have strategy. What is often missing is the capacity to take one specific cross-functional operating problem through to resolution: a workflow failing between functions, a post-acquisition integration that has stalled, cost-to-serve drifting upward quarter after quarter. BMG takes one named problem, diagnoses it from the frontline up, designs the fix, and drives implementation through your teams, with a defined exit when the work is complete.
Discuss a scoped operating problemFor transportation, logistics, and supply chain organizations specifically, see operations improvement for logistics and supply chain teams.
The shape of the engagement
This is not executive placement, interim management, or a substitute for your leadership team. It is also not a study: the engagement is scoped to end in implemented change, with the outcome measured wherever clean measurement is possible. One senior operator, working through your people, inside a defined governance cadence, with a defined exit.
Bounded scope
The work starts with one business unit, workflow, or constraint, not an enterprise-wide transformation program.
Senior accountability
BMG is accountable for design integrity, sequencing, adoption, and measurement.
Through your teams
Your teams execute.
Governance cadence
Inside whatever governance cadence your organization runs.
Defined exit
With a defined exit when the work is complete.
Enterprise Teams. Large organizations, often above $1 billion in annual revenue, where the problem typically sits within a particular business unit, workflow, customer journey, or transformation initiative. BMG works with accountable leadership and the teams closest to the work to diagnose the constraint, align ownership, and carry the approved solution through implementation. Enterprise engagements are scoped and priced around the specific initiative, not as an enterprise-wide transformation program. For established companies below that scale, see Middle-Market Companies.
Scoped diagnostic, then implementation leadership
It starts with an Operations Diagnostic scoped to the named problem: typically four to six weeks across the functions the workflow touches, in the operation itself and in the systems, ending in a quantified findings readout and a sequenced fix design with owners. Where the findings warrant it, BMG then leads implementation: your teams execute, and BMG is accountable for design integrity, sequencing, adoption, and measurement, inside whatever governance cadence your organization runs. Fixed-fee diagnostic; implementation priced per program. The method in full.
Typical problem shapes:
- a cross-functional workflow failing between departments
- customer or partner onboarding
- post-acquisition operational integration
- cost-to-serve drift
- a function left without an owner after a pivot or reorganization
- service delivery that has outgrown its process
- capacity constraints that hiring has not fixed.
Why an experienced outside operator
From Brad Berlin's operating career. Not BMG client outcomes.
- While serving with a larger consulting firm, Brad was part of a team that redesigned an anonymized carrier division of roughly $150M spanning 13 offices that operated as silos, bringing them into one operating model across work ownership, incentives, rules of engagement, training for more than 100 employees, and steering-committee governance. Ten months after implementation, the division was at 100% of its revenue goal and 118% of its gross-profit goal.
- At project44, restored a deprioritized integration layer spanning 350+ carrier API integrations and North America's top 50 carrier relationships, coordinating customers, external partner IT organizations, and internal engineering without direct authority over any of them. 26 new connections shipped in under nine months.
- The same assessment-to-implementation method was reused across successive engagements at some of North America's largest transportation enterprises, and across contexts from new-business builds to multi-site redesigns.
The full record is on the About page. See also what the Diagnostic covers.
How BMG operates inside your controls
Procurement and security review usually arrive before the work does. These are the answers, stated plainly.
Access scope
BMG asks for the least access that lets the work proceed, and asks for it in writing. Read access to the systems the workflow touches is normally enough for a Diagnostic. Where a Fix Sprint requires change access, it is requested for a specific system and a specific window, granted through your normal provisioning process, and revoked when the work is done. BMG does not require administrative rights as a condition of the engagement, and does not move production data into its own tooling unless you have approved where that data goes.
Human approval
Any automation or agent BMG designs runs with a person accountable for its output. Where a step carries financial, contractual, customer, or safety consequence, approval is explicit and recorded rather than implied by silence. Low-confidence outputs are routed to a person by design, not by exception. This is a design rule in the workflow, not a setting that gets switched off once the engagement ends.
Change control
BMG works inside your change process rather than around it. Changes are proposed with a stated scope, a rollback path, and a named owner on your side, and they move through your approval route at whatever cadence your organization runs. If no change process exists for the area in question, the engagement says so and treats establishing a lightweight one as part of the fix.
Operating documentation
Every implemented change leaves a written record: the workflow as designed, the decision rights at each step, the exception paths, the measures and their baselines, and any configuration made to a system involved. It is written for the person who will run the process, and it is handed over in your systems rather than held in BMG's.
Ownership after implementation
The engagement is designed to end. Each change is handed over with a named internal owner, the documentation above, and the measure that tells that owner whether it is still working. The exit is part of the original scope, not a separate negotiation later.
Where responsibility sits
BMG works within the access, approval, security, and change-control requirements the client establishes. Security, legal, compliance, and audit decisions remain with the client's responsible teams, and changes do not move forward without their approval.
Start with the problem.
If you can describe the operating problem in two sentences, that is enough for the first conversation. Thirty minutes, direct.