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  <title><![CDATA[Logi Mastery]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Logi Mastery offers decision architecture, process redesign, and strategic clarity consulting. Led by Oliver Mercer. Based in Birmingham, working across the UK.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five mistakes organisations make in autumn planning cycles]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Autumn is when most organisations run their annual planning cycle. It is also when most of them make the same structural mistakes they made the previous year, because the mistakes are embedded in the process rather than in the people. This article covers the five most common ones, based on planning sessions Oliver Mercer has observed and facilitated since 2019.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:20:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Process redesign versus process improvement: knowing which one you need]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Process improvement and process redesign are often used interchangeably. They should not be. Choosing the wrong approach for your situation is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes organisations make when they decide to fix something that is not working.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:43:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What decision architecture actually means in practice]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The term decision architecture gets used in consulting circles often enough that it has started to lose meaning. This article is an attempt to restore some precision to it, based on eight years of doing this work with leadership teams in professional services, logistics, and public-sector adjacent organisations.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:33:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What to expect from a Strategic Clarity Session]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A number of people who enquire about a Strategic Clarity Session ask what it actually involves. The name is clear enough in principle, but the format is specific, and it helps to know what you are walking into before you commit two hours and £480 to it.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:51:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What makes a leadership workshop actually produce useful outputs]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most leadership workshops fail before anyone enters the room. The failure happens in the design phase, when the agenda is built around topics rather than decisions, and when the goal is described as alignment rather than a specific output. By the time the group sits down, the conditions for a productive session have already been undermined.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:22:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why smart people still make poor decisions without structure]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The most common assumption about poor decision-making is that it is caused by a lack of information or a lack of intelligence. In practice, most of the poor decisions Oliver Mercer has seen in eight years of this work were made by intelligent, experienced people with access to adequate information. The problem was structural.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:30:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When to bring in a consultant and when to solve it yourself]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oliver Mercer has turned down engagements. Not many, but enough to have a clear sense of when external consulting adds genuine value and when it does not. This article is an attempt to share that framework honestly, because the answer is not always 'hire a consultant'.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:58:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why your organisation needs a decision log and how to start one]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A decision log is a record of significant decisions made by an organisation: what was decided, who made the decision, what information it was based on, and what the expected outcome was. Most organisations do not keep one. The cost of that absence is higher than most people realise.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:33:12 GMT</pubDate>
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