For small and growing teams

Nix the friction that slows work down.

Practical, low-tech process fixes for non-IT teams. Clear ownership, cleaner handoffs, fewer dropped balls — and systems people still follow when the week gets busy.

Not software Not Lean / Six Sigma theatre Not a full operating-system rebuild

The work is fine. The handoffs are not.

Most growing teams don’t need another tool or a heavy consulting project. They need fewer dropped balls, clearer ownership, and a way of working that survives a busy Tuesday.

Typical friction

  • Requests live in chat, memory, and one person’s head
  • Handoffs stall because nobody owns the next step
  • Quality depends on who is working that day
  • The same fire gets fought every week
  • A process exists — until the team gets busy, then it disappears

Who this is for

Small and medium teams that are growing and starting to feel messy — operations, service, tourism, e-commerce, admin-heavy work, and similar businesses. Not IT departments looking for software.

If the operation still runs on reminders, shouting, or one person holding everything together, that is usually the place to start.

What gets fixed

The work stays light on purpose. One bottleneck at a time, using the tools the team already has.

Ownership

Who decides, who does the work, and who checks it is done. Named, not assumed.

Handoffs

What has to travel with the work so the next person can start without hunting.

Dropped balls

The requests, follow-ups, and exceptions that quietly vanish between people.

Systems that stick

A process simple enough that it still gets used when nobody has spare time.

How I work

Look at reality first. Change as little as possible. Make the new way easier than the old one.

01

Look at reality

How the work actually happens — not the version on the slide or in the handbook.

02

Find the bottleneck

The one or two points that create most of the delay, errors, or stress.

03

Design a simple fix

A practical change that fits the team, the tools they already use, and daily pressure.

04

Make it stick

If people only follow it on a calm day, it is not finished.

The goal is not a perfect system. The goal is a system people will still follow when they are busy.

What this is not

Clear limits save both sides time.

Not software

No platform to buy, implement, or maintain. If a shared inbox, checklist, or one extra field already solves it, that is the answer.

Not heavy method

No Lean / Six Sigma program, certification language, or workshop theatre. The words stay ordinary so the team can use them.

Not a full rebuild

No company-wide operating system. We fix the friction that is costing you now, then stop while it still works.

About Boy Wilmsen

Practical problem-solver. Twenty years in operations where a dropped ball was not a small thing — payments, banking, and hospital systems.

At SWIFT I monitored the production network, wrote disaster-recovery procedures, and worked on Failure Not An Option: look at how errors actually happen, then make the next one harder. At SNS Reaal and Robeco I did 24/7 monitoring and incident handling — the shift work where a process either holds or it does not.

At Agfa HealthCare I was Global Monitoring Specialist on GRIP. The team had no real workflows, so I built them: procedures, escalations, request paths, and a Confluence knowledge base people could still use under pressure. Same pattern everywhere: make the work visible, name the owner, write it down so it survives a busy night.

I work remotely with English-speaking small and medium teams. Based in the Dominican Republic.

Process design Ownership & handoffs Knowledge bases Incident-ready work Low-tech systems Remote

A first step stays small

You do not need a long project to start. Send a short description of the main problem. I’ll say plainly whether I can help and what a first step would look like.

If I am not the right fit, I’ll say that too.

Describe the friction

A few sentences is enough: what keeps getting dropped, who is stuck holding it, and what “better” would look like on a normal week. I’ll reply with a straight answer.