MULTIBALL
Clarity and coherence when complexity can no longer be avoided
MULTIBALL works where decision-making slows, fragments, or loses force under structural complexity. When signals conflict, incentives pull apart, and coordination costs rise, the problem is rarely a lack of intelligence. It is structural incoherence: decisions cannot travel cleanly from commitment to delivery. We restore coherence by fixing how decisions are formed, carried, and sustained - clarifying authority, aligning incentives, stabilising meaning, and reducing friction so that direction remains legible as conditions change. This is not strategy consulting. It is decision architecture: the design of structures that allow decisions to hold force across institutional, technical, and political boundaries.
MULTIBALL is engaged when:
- Decisions take too long to settle, or lose force after agreement.
- Initiatives multiply without reinforcing each other.
- Authority becomes ambiguous under pressure.
- Alignment depends on heroic coordination rather than structural capacity.
Clients include public institutions, infrastructure organisations, foundations, and hybrid bodies operating where complexity cannot be outsourced - and where delays, reversals, and ambiguity carry material and political consequences.
MULTIBALL is brought in when the challenge is not what to decide, but how decisions can still move, hold, and scale.
Jan works with leadership teams to translate complexity into decision structures that reduce friction, clarify responsibility, and restore momentum - particularly when problems cross disciplines and institutions, and when existing decision processes no longer scale with reality.
Working together
The work takes place in person and online, often in combination. If you are navigating a situation where complexity is starting to distort decision-making, reach out for a brief, no-cost conversation. email
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