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  <title><![CDATA[Furl Meshcore]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Furl Meshcore is an independent management consultancy offering operational reviews, strategy development, and change programme design. Based in London.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five Principles for Designing a Change Programme That Holds]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Change programmes fail for many reasons, but the most common failure point is the design phase, specifically the things that were not decided before implementation began. Governance left ambiguous. Milestones set without agreement on what they actually measure. No agreed criteria for stopping. This article covers five design principles that address the most common gaps.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Scope a Consulting Engagement Before You Sign]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most consulting engagements go wrong at the scoping stage, not the delivery stage. The scope document is signed quickly, often under time pressure, and the assumptions embedded in it are not examined until they become problems. This article covers the questions worth asking before any contract is agreed.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Prepare Your Board for a Facilitated Strategy Day]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A facilitated board away-day is an expensive day. The room, the travel, the time of the people in it. The preparation that precedes it determines whether that investment produces decisions or produces a list of action points that nobody acts on. Most away-days underdeliver because the preparation is treated as logistics rather than as analytical work.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What to Expect From an Operational Review]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[An operational review is one of the most commonly commissioned consulting engagements and one of the most variably executed. The term covers everything from a two-day workshop to a ten-week structured audit. This article describes what a rigorous operational review actually involves and what it should produce.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When Does Hiring a Management Consultant Actually Make Sense?]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The decision to hire a management consultant is often made for the wrong reasons: because a problem has become politically difficult to address internally, because a board wants external validation for a decision already made, or because it is what organisations of a certain size are expected to do. None of these are good reasons. This article describes the conditions under which external consulting genuinely adds value.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Most Common Mistakes in Organisational Strategy Development]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most strategy documents describe where an organisation already is, dressed up in language about where it is going. This is not a cynical observation. It is a structural problem that arises from the way most strategy processes are designed. The people who commission the strategy are also the people whose decisions the strategy will evaluate. The incentive to confirm existing direction is strong.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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