The Firm

The firm is its own proof.

Mesa Group operates the Command Mapping discipline on itself. The methodology the firm sells is the methodology the firm runs on. That is the structural fact that separates Mesa Group from firms prescribing disciplines they have not adopted.

How the firm runs

We run on the standard we install.

Routine work runs autonomously inside defined boundaries. Every decision keeps a person's name on it. Sentinels watch the seams, so problems surface before they become incidents. The firm compresses traditional consulting timelines materially because the work is systematized to the same standard a client receives — not because anything is left unsupervised. Principals are directly engaged on every engagement.

Principals

Direct engagement, by design.

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Dan Dollins

The Architect

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Jay Shurling

Business Development

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Where we say no

The discipline includes declining the work.

A map that approves automating a decision which should keep a human owner is a failed map. Mesa Group will recommend against automation — and against an engagement — when the honest read says the authority is not ready to be delegated. Saying no is not lost revenue; it is the product working.

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The on-ramp

A first read in days. A full map in weeks. A system you own outright.

Engagement is scoped in a briefing, never quoted from a rate card. Tell us where you are on the route and we will tell you where you fit.

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