Strategy and direction
Resolve competing priorities, assess important choices and establish a direction your organization can act on.
Strategy, operations and leadership
Clarity at the edge of complexity.
Pacific Edge helps leaders set direction, strengthen operations and lead change. We connect strategic decisions with the people, systems and technology needed to carry them through.
Led by Chris McLeanVancouver, Canada
01 / Advisory
Where we can help
Operations and capability
Strengthen how work gets done, from responsibilities and workflows to information, digital systems and automation.
Advisory and leadership
Bring experienced judgment and leadership into the work through ongoing strategic advice, fractional leadership or implementation support.
We also support First Nations and Indigenous organizations, with planning, organizational capacity and service design shaped around their priorities and governance.
02 / Experience
Selected work
Explore the situations, decisions and practical work behind selected assignments.
Strategy and direction
Designing a fibre delivery operating model
Integrating partner knowledge across the fibre delivery chain so go-to-market needs could inform engineering and construction planning.
Operations and capability
Recovering reporting in a constrained implementation
Recovering vendor data for first-wave participation reporting and workforce forecasting during a constrained software implementation.
03 / Technology
AI and automation
Reduce repeated effort and give people more capacity for work that needs their judgment. We assess where AI or automation can improve the work, then establish the requirements for a reliable pilot or implementation.
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04 / Working with Pacific Edge
Led by Chris McLean
Chris is a business consultant and former Director of Business Optimization with experience across operations, analytics, technology and organizational change.
His approach starts with understanding how the pieces fit: the decisions, workflows and information shaping the problem. Recommendations must work within the organization's actual resources and responsibilities.
About Chris and Pacific EdgeWorking together
Engage Pacific Edge for a focused assignment, implementation support or ongoing advice and fractional leadership. We agree the scope and responsibilities at the outset, with attention to the knowledge and capability your organization will retain.
05 / Research and development
Pacific Edge Labs
Labs explores ideas and develops reusable capability, from research and experiments to practical tools and products. Selected work includes ISEF Support, a forthcoming tool for Indigenous education teams.
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What are you working on?
Start a conversation with Chris about the decision, challenge or initiative in front of you. A short description is enough to begin.
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