Zoom Riddle is an independent business consultant for growing organisations: advice on governance, organisational design and growth with no software, outsourcing or delivery team to sell. Independence means the only thing the advice has to serve is the question the leadership team is asking.
An independent business consultant for leadership teams: advice with no software, outsourcing or delivery team to sell. Governance, structure and growth.
Many leadership teams have already had advice from a supplier, a software vendor or a large firm with a delivery team. The advice was often sound, and it also happened to point towards what the adviser could provide. That is the reason people look for an independent business consultant.
Independence is not a claim to be neutral about everything. It is a structural fact: the firm earns its fee from the advice, not from what follows it. That lets it say when a problem is a design problem, when it is a people problem and when no outside help is needed.
Zoom Riddle is an independent consultancy that works with leadership teams on diagnosis, design and advice, and leaves delivery to the people who own the change.
Zoom Riddle’s advisory is offered worldwide. Our in-house methodology is designed to be applied to any organisation, wherever it is based, and engagements are run online.
Four areas where leadership teams most often ask for an independent business consultant.
Who decides what, how quickly, and where decisions stall.
Whether structure, roles and management layers still fit the size and stage of the organisation.
Whether the business can grow without adding more complexity than it removes.
Whether the leadership team shares one view of priorities and acts on it consistently.
Reflections from real work on organisations growing beyond their founding design.
EXPERIENCE vs EVIDENCE
Introducing measurement into a professional-services firm that had grown for decades…
SELF-GOVERNANCE
A decade of building and abandoning independent ventures shows that governance is not…
THE DISCIPLINE OF NOT KNOWING YET
Testing whether a professional-development business could enter a new corporate market…
Evidence-led reading for leadership teams.
A consultant or firm whose income comes from the advice itself, not from selling software, outsourcing or a delivery team. That lets the advice follow the problem rather than the adviser’s own offer.
A large consultancy usually brings a delivery team and a range of services to sell. An independent business consultant advises on the question and leaves delivery to the organisation, which keeps the scope smaller and the advice more direct.
Zoom Riddle is an independent advisory consultancy. Management consulting is one way of describing the work, which centres on governance, decision rights, organisational design and strategy execution.
When the same problems keep returning despite good people, when you want advice that is not shaped by a product or delivery offer, or when the leadership team needs an outside view of how the organisation actually works.
Zoom Riddle scopes work to the question, so cost depends on what has to be answered and there is no standard price. A first conversation is the way to define the question and the scope.
Yes. Zoom Riddle’s advisory is offered worldwide, and our in-house methodology is designed to be applied to any organisation, wherever it is based. Engagements are run online, based on documents, data and structured conversations with the leadership team. London, Zurich, Dubai and Singapore are the four markets where Zoom Riddle expects to establish offices in future; they are not limits on who we work with. Any company is welcome to get in touch.
A clear description of the question, what has been tried and what evidence exists. The aim is to agree whether independent advice would help and, if so, what a first piece of work would deliver. Services can be delivered remotely, and we accept requests from organisations wherever they are located.
The emphasis is on diagnosis, design and advice for the leadership team that owns the change, rather than on supplying a delivery team. Implementation stays with the people who will live with the result.
Related advisory: All advisory services · International business consultant · Business advisory services · Business growth consultant. Perspectives: What changes as organisations grow · Strategy execution.
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