Operational Excellence, built for measurable impact
Led by seasoned consultants and industry practitioners, Outsized Teams deliver tangible outcomes across process improvement, change delivery, and business enablement – typically within 6–18 weeks and at a fraction of traditional consulting costs.
Operational Excellence support, designed for real performance
From process improvement to change management, Outsized Teams help you build smarter, leaner operations. Each engagement blends consulting discipline with real-world delivery expertise – ensuring every initiative achieves measurable impact, faster.
Process Improvement
Streamline critical processes to remove friction, reduce cost, and increase agility. Our teams identify and fix inefficiencies fast – delivering measurable performance gains and stronger operational resilience.
Cost Optimisation
Identify inefficiencies without sacrificing capability. Our teams pinpoint cost drivers, streamline processes, and deliver sustainable savings — balancing efficiency with performance so your organisation stays lean, agile, and ready for growth.
Business Enablement
Build the structures, tools, and capabilities that help teams perform better. Whether it’s process governance, workforce enablement, or operating-model redesign, we turn ambition into sustained execution.
Benchmarking
Achieve clarity of performance against peers and best practice. Through data-driven diagnostics and actionable insights, we help you identify improvement priorities and unlock tangible results.
Outsized’s Operational Excellence area is led by a proven consultant turned operator
David Pragasam
Outsized Capability Lead – Operational Excellence
- Led $6M cost optimisation programme for multinational health-tech, delivering significant in-year savings whilst working directly with C-suite (Jan–Mar 2025).
- Led workforce modelling for Australia’s largest telecommunications infrastructure project, securing $40M government funding and achieving 120% revenue increase.
- Defined Data & AI 2025 Strategy at Telstra, leading to establishment of Chief Data and AI Office and joint venture with Quantium.
- Led multi-stream transformation initiatives at Telstra and a complex education sector programme, providing governance across multiple workstreams.
David’s full profile can be seen here.
Operational Excellence consulting in action
Rapid validation of automation and margin enhancement
A professional services firm needed to validate automation and AI opportunities and develop a board-ready business case for margin enhancement over 2-3 years.
Challenge:
Leadership identified optimisation opportunities but needed credible implementation plans with quantified financial impact. They needed rapid validation, rigorous business case, and board-ready plan within 4.5 weeks.
Solution:
Outsized curated a three-person team using DMAIC methodology to validate the quantified target number and identify specific opportunity initiatives. Undertook financial modelling, dependency mapping, and developed a phased roadmap with success metrics. Packaged findings into board materials, including a refined business case and Q&A preparation.
Impact:
Comprehensive board-ready business case with realistic financial projections. Validated opportunity assessment for measurable margin enhancement. Phased roadmap balancing quick wins with longer-term initiatives. Governance structure for effective execution.
This is what we were missing. The Six Sigma approach, and then the plan,
– Head of Operations, Global Professional Services Firm
helped us go back to the board in a credible way.
Outsized Teams is purpose-built for fixed-scope project execution
Outsized Teams is built specifically for the projects that demand speed and agility. While large consulting firms excel at large, enterprise-wide transformations and multi-year strategic programmes, Outsized Teams is engineered for fixed-scope projects in the AUD 200k–2m range – delivering consulting-grade structure, accountability, and senior talent, without the overhead.
When to use Outsized
Teams
• You need a full delivery team built around a defined project scope
• The work requires multi-disciplinary collaboration and leadership
• You want structured governance, reporting, and accountability
• You’re focused on measurable outcomes, not just hours worked
• You prefer turnkey delivery without the overhead of large firms
When to use Outsized Talent on Demand
• You need specialist expertise to plug short-term skill gaps
• You’re building internal capability and managing delivery yourself
• The project is individual-contributor-led, not team-based
• You want maximum flexibility to scale resources up or down
• You’re comfortable owning coordination, delivery, and outcomes
“We used an MBB firm for our 3-year transformation strategy and Outsized Teams for focused execution work where their model makes more sense – like our 12-week credit operations redesign. Different tools for different jobs.”
– CFO, Australian Financial Services Firm
How we deliver your projects through Outsized Teams
Outsized offers two flexible delivery models designed to combine quality, accountability, and speed – tailored to the complexity of your project. Each engagement is set up and quality-assured by Outsized to ensure clear structure, expert execution, and measurable outcomes from start to finish.
Option 1: Curated Teams
Built-for-you project teams of independent experts, hand-picked from our vetted network and led by an Outsized Capability Lead. You retain full project oversight while we handle coordination through a dedicated Delivery Manager.
• Outsized Capability Lead providing senior oversight and structure
• Outsized Delivery Manager coordinating execution and quality
• Hand-picked project team from Outsized’s 60k+ vetted experts
Option 2: Delivery via Boutique Partners
Alternatively, we connect you with specialist consulting firms that bring deep domain expertise. The boutique firm takes full accountability for delivery, while Outsized facilitates the partnership and ensures quality throughout.
• Delivery via vetted boutique consulting firms
• End-to-end accountability with proven methodologies
• Partnership management and quality assurance from Outsized
How does it work?
A proven consulting delivery model – designed by practitioners with real implementation experience, combining speed, control, and measurable business outcomes.
Discovery
Together, we translate objectives into a clear, outcome-based delivery plan. You get defined milestones, ownership lines, and measurable deliverables — removing ambiguity before mobilisation.
Team assembly (ca. 1 week)
Within days, your team is handpicked from our vetted independent experts or specialist boutiques. Each consultant or partner is selected for precise capability fit, chemistry, and execution track record.
Delivery & handover
We manage structured delivery with weekly governance, milestone reviews, and transparent reporting. On completion, we ensure full knowledge transfer to your internal team – so the impact continues.
In addition to project teams, we can support your overall talent-on-demand and staff augmentation needs
Talent-on-Demand
Quickly close capability and capacity gaps for your core functions and project teams. Onboard talent in days, not weeks or months. Access our platform of top independent consultants, skilled contractors, and seasoned experts with deep execution experience.
Bench by Outsized
Bench gives always-on access to curated and continuously updated and maintained talent pools of top-tier independents across high-priority skill areas. Outsized guarantees quality, depth and availability of talent, so you can immediate deploy skills as and when you need them.
Contract-to-Hire
Speed up and de-risk hiring for both you and the talent. With our Contract-to-Hire model, employers and talent get to know each other during a ‘try before you buy’ period – ensuring a great match for both sides. Escape lengthy, broken recruitment processes and confirm suitability through on-the-job performance.
Contracting-as-a-Service
An end-to-end solution to contract, pay, and manage your independent talent. We reduce the complexity, time, and risk of onboarding people who aren’t on your payroll. Most importantly, we ensure they have a great experience while you stay focused on results. Our suite of added-value services protects your brand and keeps your reputation in safe hands.
Get in touch to discuss how Outsized Teams can help transform your next initiative
Please let us know any questions you have, or if you would like to set up a discussion on how we can support you.