Operational assessment
Map current workflows, clarify the problem, and establish a baseline for quality, capacity, cost, and service performance.
Organizational & Executive Advisory
Fractional COO & Operational Excellence
Add experienced operating leadership when margin pressure, service complexity, or a leadership gap demands executive attention.
Discuss Your PrioritiesOur Focus
Make improvement part of how the organization operates.
We help owners and leadership teams strengthen organizational performance by aligning operating priorities, resources, and accountability. Our focus includes service quality, workforce capacity, cost discipline, and coordination across business functions.
Process improvement
Apply Lean Six Sigma thinking to reduce unnecessary steps, improve handoffs, and address sources of variation.
Operating-model alignment
Clarify roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and the coordination required across functions.
Performance management
Define useful measures, accountable owners, and a review rhythm that helps teams sustain improvements.
Operating experience that informs the engagement
Jason W. Foster brings enterprise operating experience spanning a $491.7 million revenue-site P&L environment, with results across prior leadership roles that include generating $6 million in incremental on-contract revenue within four months and contributing to millions in annual savings. That experience shapes Seven Hundred Consulting’s approach to fractional COO leadership: translating strategy into operating priorities, aligning resources and cross-functional accountability, and strengthening revenue performance and cost discipline. Engagements connect executive decisions with measurable operating results.
Review the Leadership ExperienceEngagement Outputs
A practical operating agenda.
Depending on the agreed mandate, the engagement may include the following executive tools and ongoing leadership routines.
- An operating assessment identifying capacity constraints, cost pressures, and the highest-priority decisions.
- A performance scorecard with baseline measures, accountable leaders, and a regular executive review.
- An operating agenda linking improvement priorities to resource decisions and cross-functional responsibilities.
- A decision and escalation framework for material risks, service issues, and changes in performance.
Your engagement
Define the leadership your business needs.
The initial conversation establishes fit, priorities, and the operating responsibilities the engagement will cover. Scope and availability are confirmed before work begins.
Leadership mandate
Agree on the business priorities, reporting relationship, decision authority, and executive meetings where operating leadership will contribute.
Initial operating agenda
Review performance, organizational capacity, and material constraints. Establish an initial set of priorities with accountable leaders and measures of progress.
Performance and decisions
Set a review cadence appropriate to the engagement. Use operating results, risks, and resource trade-offs to guide executive decisions and adjust priorities.
Delivery responsibilities
Define engagement responsibilities, leadership capacity, client team participation, and any specialist support needed. When additional financial expertise is needed, we coordinate external CFO support from professionals holding CPA or CFA credentials.
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