Measure, do not guess
Two weeks of observation and data before a single recommendation.
Studio Workflow Audit
A six-week look at where a fifteen-person studio was losing its time, and a smaller set of habits to replace it.
Client
Meridian Studio
Year
2024
Our role
Consulting, process design
Deliverables
6-week audit, workflow redesign, templates
The brief
Projects were landing late without anyone able to say where the time went. The studio suspected the tools. It was not the tools.
The approach
We measured before recommending. Two weeks of shadowing and timesheet analysis found that most of the loss sat in three handovers, not in anyone working slowly.
Fix the handovers
Three named handover points with a checklist each. The most common rework cause disappeared.
Change five things, not fifty
A short list people would actually adopt, reviewed after a month.
Selected frames
The result
Revision rounds per project fell by roughly a third within two months. The studio kept four of the five changes.
6 weeksAudit to handover
3Handovers redesigned
~33%Fewer revision rounds
We expected to be told to buy software. We were told to write three checklists.
Managing partner, Meridian Studio
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