A CHRO or Talent leader with a specific staffing, technology or Talent investment question and a real decision date.
Bring the decision question, existing analysis or business-case draft, up to two structured exports and supporting documents. Agree a sponsor, decision date and booked forum before the proposed delivery clock starts.
We check sources, numbers and assumptions, compare the agreed options, prepare the sponsor-ready business case, consolidate one revision and support the decision meeting and its record.
Your sponsor and decision-makers approve assumptions, consider options and make the investment decision. New data collection, specialist review and implementation are separate work.
Days 1-2: Confirm the decision, input coverage, assumptions and decision-maker availability. Timing is confirmed after inputs and access are accepted.
Sources and assumptions are visible, numbers reconcile, options address the agreed decision and the meeting result has an owner. Funding approval is not the completion criterion.
Only when the decision question, sponsor path or evidence cannot support a bounded decision pack. Do not require a paid diagnostic when existing analysis and a booked decision forum are adequate.
There is no real decision, forum or decision-maker access; the buyer requires a predetermined approval; or the scope is legal advice, external assurance or a new market study.
External assurance, legal advice, new market studies and implementation of the decision are excluded. Readiness or leadership-alignment work is added only when needed and separately scoped.
One decision question and decision date; usable evidence and material gaps; up to three agreed options; reconciled numbers, assumptions and tradeoffs; decision, deferral or next evidence requirement.
Illustrative example of the record we use.
The bundles are new pilots. Related case stories describe earlier Ignite work, not this bundle.
Evidence and Options Review. Accept the decision and usable evidence; Build and check the options comparison; Prepare the sponsor and record the decision.
One decision question, up to three agreed options, up to two structured data exports and existing documents, one concise pack, one consolidated revision and one 60-minute decision forum. State missing evidence rather than inventing it.
Josh: Lead business framing, sponsor preparation and discussion of consequential tradeoffs.
Scot: Lead quantitative checks, evidence limits, options analysis and pack production.
Planning budget: HR/analysis lead 3-5 hours; sponsor about 60-90 minutes. Other decision-makers attend the booked forum. New data collection and specialist review add effort and scope.
Proposed fixed fee per decision cycle, with explicit increments for extra sources, options or forums; reduce the remaining scope when client work is usable.
Additional populations, participants, roles, sources, meetings, workstreams or review periods are agreed as separate scope where relevant.
Proposed pilot scope. We agree the remaining work, usable inputs, responsibilities and fees before starting. Timing depends on accepted inputs and the required people being available. Your team retains approvals and its assigned business actions.
For leaders defending a specific Talent, HR, headcount, budget, or growth investment.
For organizations with assessment findings that need to become org design, role clarity, and investment decisions.
Scope, responsibilities and what happens next.
