Business Opportunity Scorecard — LT Strategy Partners

01 How much of your team's week goes into repetitive, rule-based manual work — re-keying data, formatting the same reports, answering the same questions, moving information between tools?
Barely any I could point to Some, but it's scattered across different people A clear chunk — a few hours per person, every week A lot — it's a real cost, and people are partly hired to do it
02 Is there a specific, named problem you're hoping to solve?
Not really — we're looking because it feels like we should be doing something A vague sense that something could be better Yes — we can name the bottleneck, but not the fix Yes — we can name it and roughly what it costs us
03 When your team needs the information to do this work, where does it actually live?
Mostly in people's heads and email threads In documents and spreadsheets, scattered around In proper systems, but messy or spread across too many tools In systems, reasonably clean and easy to get at
04 Think of the last significant software or tool you rolled out. How did it go?
We bought it and almost nobody uses it We've never really done a proper rollout Mixed — some adoption, a lot of resistance Well — people actually adopted it and it's part of how we work now
05 Is anything outside the company pushing this?
Nothing we can point to — it's internal curiosity We sense competitors starting to move Customers or partners are asking for it A specific deal, contract, or requirement depends on it
06 If the right opportunity were clear, what could you realistically put behind it in the next 6–12 months?
Nothing set aside — we'd have to go find it A small budget for an experiment only A real but modest budget for one focused project Funded and ready to move on the right bet
07 If you started something, who would own it inside the company?
No one obvious — we'd all be part-time on it Someone could, on top of their day job We have someone who could own it with some support A clear owner, with the time and the authority to see it through
08 How do decisions like this usually get made here?
Slowly — many stakeholders, hard to reach a yes It depends — some things move, some stall Leadership can decide and commit fairly quickly
09 How often does the thing you'd want to improve actually happen?
Rarely — it's occasional A handful of times a week Many times a day, across the team Constantly — it's core to how the business runs
10 If a tool got something wrong now and then, what would happen?
It could be dangerous, or legally or financially serious — there's no room for error It would matter — someone would have to catch it A person reviews the output anyway before it's used Small mistakes are easy to spot and low-stakes

There's no wrong answer here — high-stakes work isn't off-limits, it just has to be built far more carefully. This question shapes the advice, not the verdict.

Where is your business losing time and money — and is anything worth building?

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