Welcome to the Optimised Operating Model Learning Programme

OOM Academy 2

Business Evolution with OOM

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Join us in the Optimised Operating Model (OOM) journey. A toolkit, born out of a lifetime of operating companies in Africa and overseas, designed to make your business more efficient, more resilient, and more sustainable. 

Whether you are a seasoned leader or a new manager, OOM frames a series of questions, through a set of tools, to transform the way you think about business.
 
Context

Navigate the Complex Landscape of Entrepreneurship

Virtually every company has unnecessary costs and wastage. Too many have a negative
impact on our planet and communities. They fail to inspire. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Companies can become more streamlined.

They can remove the frictions that burden them.
They can invest in long term growth.
They can balance profit with purpose.
 
Learning Pathways

Key Tools:

 

Generate a shared purpose and values

  • To engage your workforce.
 

Use collective incentive schemes

  • To encourage an ownership mindset.
 

Give workers autonomy

  • To empower them to reduce efficiencies and drive increased profitability.
 

Allocate free cash flow strategically

  • To ensure long-term value creation as well as preservation of the holistic balance sheet.
 

Equip employees with the right information

  • To identify and reduce frictional costs and to
    enable strategic decision-making.
  • Elevate Your Operations

 

Why Join the OOM Learning Programme?

  • Enhance Operational Efficiency: Identify and eliminate frictional costs that are holding your business back
  • Empower Your Workforce: Increase autonomy within your team, making your employees feel valued and part of the business's success.
  • Re-underwrite your business practises: Align your day-to-day operations with a longer-term purpose, that has a positive impact on society and the environment.
  • Design team-based incentives: Shift from individual rewards to team-based incentives that foster collaboration and drive collective success.

Interactive
Content

Engaging content featuring Jonathan Oppenheimer, African business leaders & global academics.

Learn new ways of thinking. OOM is a toolkit designed to make businesses more efficient, resilient, and sustainable by reducing unnecessary costs, investing in long-term growth, and balancing profit with purpose, while engaging teams to think like owners, innovate, and make strategic decisions for the long term.

 

Real-World Application

 

Hands-on exercises and real-world case studies to apply what you learn directly to your business. 

 
Establish a clear, guiding purpose for your organisation and align it with your core values.
 
Voices of Impact

Leaders Shaping the Future of South Africa

 
"Imagine your business thriving, standing resilient, while also enriching the very fabric of the economy and its societies. Imagine creating not just wealth, but a positive, lasting imprint on our earth. OOM isn’t about prescribing you the answers; it’s about igniting the questions that lead you to find your own solutions."
- Jonathan Oppenheimer