The first week
Five days from access to decision.
Most reviews of this kind take half a year. Not because the thinking is hard, but because the asking is slow. We ask everyone at once.
01 · Monday
We read what you already wrote down.
Strategy papers, board minutes, budgets, project lists. Nothing new to prepare. What exists is enough.
Your partYou give us access. That's it.
02 · Tuesday
We start talking to people.
Hundreds of conversations at once, in their language, at a time that suits them. Fifteen minutes each.
Your partYou send one short note to your teams.
03 · Wednesday
We lay the two on top of each other.
Where documents and people agree, we move on. Where they disagree, we look closer. That gap is usually the finding.
Your partNothing.
04 · Thursday
You see the first findings.
Each one in plain words, with the evidence behind it and the questions we can't answer for you.
Your partNinety minutes with your leadership team.
05 · Friday
You decide what to do first.
Every finding turns into a concrete move with an owner and a first step. Then we keep listening.
Your partYou choose. HEWEN never decides.
The honest comparison
What this usually looks like.
We're not saying consultants are wrong. We're saying asking forty people over four months is a sample, and asking everyone in four days is a picture.
And then it doesn't stop.
A report is right on the day it's printed. A company isn't. So HEWEN keeps listening: short conversations every quarter, documents re-read when they change.
You should be able to see, on any Tuesday, what your company knows about itself.