Simpleris Consultancy helps UK manufacturing, engineering and operations-led SMEs reduce operational risk so growth stays reliable rather than fragile.
Most growing businesses between 5 and 50 employees hit the same wall. The founder becomes the bottleneck. Critical knowledge sits with one or two key people.
Work falls through the cracks between teams. The same problems keep happening because there is no shared standard. Decisions stall because no one knows who owns them. New hires take six months to become useful.
These are not people problems. They are structural ones, and they are predictable. We call them operational risks, and they cluster around six recognisable patterns: founder dependency, key person dependency, flow and handoff risk, process consistency risk, ownership and decision risk, and onboarding and enablement risk.
Simpleris reduces these risks by stabilising how the business actually runs. That means clarifying ownership, strengthening handovers, making delivery consistent regardless of who is doing the work, and removing the dependency on individuals that quietly limits growth.
Engagements start with a free Operational Risk Assessment, a 7-minute quiz that surfaces where the business is most exposed. From there, the optional 12-week Guided Reduction and Managed Reduction programmes work alongside live operations to reduce the highest risks without disrupting output.
The work is grounded in SYSTEMology, a structured 7-step framework for systemising the critical processes that drive most business outcomes. Simpleris is led by Dr Martin Cable, one of only two Certified SYSTEMologists practising in the United Kingdom, backed by a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PRINCE2 Practitioner certification, an Executive MBA and a PhD in Materials Science.
Simpleris works with clients across the United Kingdom. The starting point is always the free Operational Risk Assessment quiz at simpleris.co.uk/ora.
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