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About Us
Business Engine Partners is founded on the belief that there is a better way for organizations to operate in the 21st century.
Founded by former industry executives with decades of expertise in the areas of strategy, innovation, process, organization, operations, and operating models. Founded because they believe a new and better way exists for organizations to operate in the 21st century and that the science of operating models offers that path forward.
Marcus Durant
Managing Partner
Former Global Operating Model Executive at Schlumberger with 30 years of operations leadership experience and current Executive Director at Streamsolution AS.
John Parolisi
Managing Director
Former Chief Strategy Officer of Balfour Beatty with 30 years of business model design, growth, and innovation experience in various industries and at McKinsey & Company.
Jeff McKay
Managing Partner
Former Katerra Operating Model Lead with 20 years of process design and program management experience across numerous industries and at Stanford University.
Why are we here?
Organizational complexity in response to an increasingly complex world has resulted in fractured and unwieldy organizations unable to deliver and adapt.
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Technology Innovation has accelerated since thedigital revolution.
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New increasingly sophisticated, powerful, and expansive business models have been enabled.
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Incumbent players challenged to quickly evolve or loss competitiveness
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Speed of technology advancement and complexity have made incorporation difficult
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Many other external factors (geopolitics, pandemics, consumer preferences) drive more change.
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Results in increasing complexity which embed inefficiency and constrain growth.
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Traditional approach is to create additional organizational units to spread accountability and responsibilities.
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Employees lose a bigger picture/end to end view of the business and their role within it.
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In this context changes are seldom done while understanding broader impacts.
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Focused responsibilities can create barriers between groups and fragmentation.
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Maintaining an up to date model becamoes impossible
The Traditional Approach to dealing with complexity will fail
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Companies often approach this by trading off two desirable qualities - structure and agility.
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Or businesses can "hard code" every element in the value chain - no room for customization or agility.
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Complexity and accelerating change of current businesses makes this approach far too rigid.
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Focusing on agility can limit flow and limit cohesion
As with these childhood toys this traditional approach can have significant shortcomings in the face of change. Basically, the accelerating pace of change in the world exposes both these approaches as too limiting.
