Strategy designed for the real world, to be implemented by real people.
SynapticNRG helps leadership teams turn ambition into operating reality: practical strategy, transformation that lands, and operating models built to run.
Most strategies aren't wrong. They're just unbuildable.
Plans get written, decks get approved, and nothing changes. We work the seam between the boardroom and the front line, where decisions either become results or evaporate.
Four ways we work with you
Practical Strategy
Sharp choices about where to play and how to win, sized to what your organisation can actually execute.
Learn more →Transformation
Large-scale change designed around adoption, not milestones. Value tracked from case to P&L.
Learn more →Operating Model
Structure, decision rights, capabilities and governance redesigned so the strategy has somewhere to live.
Learn more →Operational Excellence
Cost, throughput, reliability and quality, improved at the process level and sustained by capability.
Learn more →A short path from insight to impact.
We keep teams small, expert and embedded. No pyramid, no theatre. The people who scope the work are the people who do it.
Frame
Get to the real question fast. Two weeks of evidence beats two months of interviews.
Decide
Options with trade-offs made explicit, so leadership can commit with confidence.
Build
Design and pilot in the live environment, with your people holding the pen.
Embed
Capability, cadence and metrics handed over so the gains outlast the engagement.
Recent thinking
DPO peer analysis: a five-year read on US utility discipline
We benchmarked Days Payable Outstanding across eight large-cap US utilities from FY2020 to FY2024, translating the gap into $2.9B of supplier financing on the table.
Read the study →
The capacity ceiling: why good strategies stall in year two
Almost every plan we review is affordable in cash and unaffordable in attention. Here’s how to size ambition against the scarcer constraint.
Green until it isn’t: reading a transformation dashboard honestly
Status reporting optimises for comfort. Four questions that surface what the RAG rating is hiding.
You don’t have a structure problem, you have a decision-rights problem
Most reorgs move boxes and leave the friction untouched. Start with who decides what instead.
Let's talk about what's actually stuck.
A 30-minute conversation with a partner. No pitch deck, no pre-work.