we’re here to get your business’s engine room humming

The business mechanic you didn’t know you needed, we are here to take a good look under the hood to ensure your business is operating as efficiently and effectively as possible, that all the moving parts have a purpose, and that those in the drivers seat can put the pedal to the metal.

When we’re done? Reduced waste, higher engagement, and better business outcomes.

Our process improvement consulting services help you uncover your business’s Operational Efficiency Sweet Spot

We can help you to:

  • Optimise your systems and processes

  • Improve your efficiency & maximise your resources

  • Implement technological transformation

  • Enhance financial and operational reporting processes & outcomes

  • Integrate apps, systems, and processes for efficiency gains

  • Develop forecasts and budgets to underpin business performance management

  • Drive positive business outcomes.

Operational efficiency in practice

  • Now/Where/How Review

    This complimentary review is designed identify opportunities to turbocharge your operational efficiency, reduce waste, increase engagement, and achieve better business outcomes.

    Find out more about our Now/Where/How Review

  • Xero Health Check

    Our Xero health check is designed to challenge the status quo with how you use Xero, reviewing the technology you use in line with the processes and people involved.

    Find out more about our Xero Health Check

  • 8 Wastes of Lean Workshops

    Our half- and full-day onsite workshops introduce a framework to get everyone at all levels in your business empowered to identify improvements and eliminate waste.

    Find out more about our 8 Wastes of Lean workshops

there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to unlocking operational efficiency

Here are just a handful of the problems we’ve solved for clients

Losing time with data entry and double handling, we helped a client shift from paper to electronic record keeping, remove double handling, and document their processes to cut down the time spent on their accounts payable process by 50%.

Understanding a client’s existing paper-based scheduling process, we were able to identify a digital solution and support the implementation of a new way of working, saving the business 3-5 hours per day.

Spending hours each week manually checking job lists and calling clients to remind them of upcoming jobs, we reviewed digital solutions and helped one trade-based client test and implement a text-message based reminder system, giving them back 2 hours per day.

Frustrated with the turn-around time of their monthly financial reports, we helped one client streamline their reporting processes, update their financial report pack, and automate a number of elements that reduced their monthly bookkeeping time but also improved the effectiveness of their management reporting pack.

wondering what it's like to work with acumin.io?

Here's how we work together to unlock your organisation's operational efficiency sweet spot


We apply our signature Now / Where / How framework to all of our projects. Typically, we'll kick things off with a collaborative 360 review of your key operations, picking apart the moving pieces to truly understanding where you are NOW and what might be holding you back. We'll then co-create a picture of WHERE you want to get to, and then give you the roadmap of HOW to take you there with the perfect balance of resources, technology, and processes.

We'll help you to implement or refine technology that does the heavy lifting for you, make sure you have the right person doing the right tasks, and provide best practice process and workflow solutions that will support your business now and in to the future.




check engine light

Is your engine room running as efficienctly as possible? If it's been a while since you reviewed your key business processes, it's time for a tune-up. Take our operational efficiency quiz to stimulate your thoughts and start to identify improvement areas in your business.

look under the hood

We'll join you onsite at your business to take a look under the hood and talk through process pains and frustrations. We'll watch on to see the action in progress to gain a true understanding of how your business runs and we'll unpack your "ideal world" when it comes to your people, processes, and technology.

the action plan

Armed with that insight, we'll make a series of recommendations to help tune-up your engine room to get it running as efficienctly and effectivley as possible. Our project could involve co-designing new processes, implementing new technology, or training your team on new ways of working.

the pit stop

While there is no end point when it comes to operational efficiency, it's important to regularly take stock on how you're travelling. That's why most of our projects come with 3 months of support so we can check in with you and make sure everything is humming along nicely.

when smarter processes, overseen by an engaged team, are supported by intelligent technology

that’s where your business will find its efficiency sweet spot.

We’re here to help you unlock it.

Platforms & providers we work with

Many hands make light work - so we are comfortable and confident working with a range of platforms & providers that help you unlock your operational efficiency sweet spot. Here’s just a few of our friends

 
 
 

Plus many more

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“acumin.io were able to dig into the detail of our business, pinpoint exactly what we needed from our new systems, and implement a raft of efficiencies and automations for both our bookkeeping and management processes along the way!”

— Melissa Sharland, McGrath & Frisby

Ready to get your engine room humming?

Let's take a look under the hood of your business together, to get you working smarter, not harder.