Start with the problem. Agree the right support.
Whether you're scaling up, getting product investment back on track or building product capability for the first time, understand what's holding the business back and make the changes that matter with One Knight Consulting.
Assess → Recommend → Implement. Each engagement starts with your situation. The first step is to agree what needs to be understood, prioritise what to do next and identify the support needed to put it into practice.
Understand what needs to change
Product Effectiveness Assessment
An independent diagnosis of the opportunities and constraints affecting product performance, with prioritised recommendations you can act on.
When it helps
Product investment isn't producing enough value, growth is exposing gaps, or leadership needs an independent view before deciding what to change.
What the assessment covers
The scope depends on your business: strategy, proposition, commercial opportunities, leadership, team effectiveness, decision-making or the operating model. Organisational maturity may be part of the picture; the assessment goes where the evidence points.
- Review relevant strategic, commercial and product documentation.
- Speak with leadership and the people closest to the work.
- Identify opportunities, constraints and their implications for the business.
- Agree priorities and a practical plan with the leadership team.
What you get: A shared understanding of what's holding performance back, prioritised recommendations and clear next steps. Hands-on implementation support is available after the assessment.
Explore the assessment framework for a view of the areas an assessment can investigate.
Decide where to focus
Product Strategy & Advisory
Independent support for important product decisions: where to invest, what to prioritise and which opportunities are worth pursuing.
When it helps
You're evaluating a new proposition, productising services, reconsidering strategic priorities or working out where AI could create customer and business value.
- Clarify the commercial problem and the customer need.
- Evaluate product, AI and automation opportunities in your business context.
- Make investment choices and trade-offs explicit.
- Align leadership around priorities and what needs to be learned next.
What you get: A clearer direction, practical investment priorities and support to challenge assumptions as decisions develop. Advisory can be a focused engagement or an ongoing relationship.
Put the plan into practice
Fractional Product Leadership
Hands-on senior product leadership to implement change, strengthen capabilities and connect product work to business priorities.
When it helps
You need experienced leadership through a period of change, support bridging a leadership gap or help establishing a product function as the business scales.
- Turn recommendations into priorities and day-to-day decisions.
- Refine strategy, responsibilities and the product operating model.
- Guide teams and align stakeholders around the changes that matter.
- Support hiring, onboarding and transition to permanent leadership.
What you get: Senior leadership embedded in the work, practical implementation support and a deliberate focus on building lasting capability.
Coaching, workshops & team development
Focused support for the people and practices that need to change. These interventions can support a wider engagement or address a specific need on their own.
- Coaching for product leaders, founders and product managers.
- Strategy, prioritisation and leadership alignment workshops.
- Team development, training and product operating model sessions.
- Talks and facilitated team sessions on product leadership, AI and organisational change.
Not sure which support you need?
That's a useful place to start. Book a conversation to explore what's happening in your business and what would help.