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Improving performance across a global festivals business

We partnered with a global entertainment company to design a target operating model that simplified delivery, improved organisational alignment and identified significant efficiency opportunities.

Global festivals business: enterprise operating model
Client Global festivals business
Region UK
Sector Media, Entertainment and Technology
Offering Sustainable Cost Optimisation
Themes
Cost optimisation Operating model

The Challenge

Following a period of rapid acquisition-led growth, a global entertainment business faced increasing operational complexity and fragmentation. This limited its ability to capture scale efficiencies and deploy capabilities consistently across markets.​

They aimed to support continued growth while protecting the distinct audience experience and creative identity that underpin its events.​

Q5 was engaged to work alongside the team to define a target operating model that would simplify how the business operates, enable more effective use of shared capabilities, and ensure critical skills and resources sit in the right places to support future growth.

Our Approach

  • Established a robust data base by consolidating data across markets and conducting ActivityQ analysis to understand how time and effort are deployed​.
  • Defined design principles aligned to strategic priorities through leadership workshops​.
  • Co-created the target operating model with functional leaders and markets, including hypotheses to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Identified and sized efficiency opportunities, and translate these into organisational structures and team sizing aligned to the operating model.
  • Develop a phased implementation plan with clear sequencing to support delivery across the portfolio.

Key Outcomes

  • 15% gross efficiency savings, with a clear view of value drivers
  • Validated baseline of roles across the organisation and how time is allocated today​
  • Clear and aligned organisational structure, supported by a strong change narrative to explain the rationale and build alignment​
  • Created a phased implementation roadmap with defined sequencing, milestones, and ownership​
  • Transferred knowledge and upskilled internal teams to lead and deliver implementation​
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