Strategy & Management · Strategy Implementation

The COO Operating Cadence — Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Executive masterclass for sitting and incoming COOs.

3 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

Executive masterclass for sitting and incoming COOs.

As Rodrigo Ureña-Vargas, the new COO of Petrolia Group (integrated energy, four asymmetric geographies, USD 11.4 bn revenue, 2.95× leverage), audit an inherited twelve-meeting calendar, design a four-layer operating cadence (weekly / monthly / quarterly / annual) with an explicit variance budget across regions, and defend the design under fire from the Brazil and Spain GMs, the CFO, and the sponsoring CEO.

Surfaces the operating-system-as-strategy thesis through Cook, Tomé, Cote, Hewson and TPS-trained references.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Verb the Inherited Inventory.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Weekly cadence — true ops layer
  • Pre-read discipline (Bezos / Tomé style)
  • Monthly Business Review format
  • Quarterly off-site purpose (Hewson alternation)
  • Annual integration with Board & AOP

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Strategy Implementation.

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