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Find the Waste. Free the Resources. Fund What Matters.
SKAL identifies where you’re overspending, underutilizing tools, and leaking efficiency - so you can reinvest with clarity and confidence.
Start the Conversation >An Objective Audit of How Your Digital Business Actually Operates
SKAL is Turner+Forsythe’s comprehensive audit program designed to uncover wasted spend, misaligned systems, inefficient workflows, and unrealized opportunity across digital growth, technology, and operations. We analyze where money, time, and effort are being lost - then help you redirect those resources toward initiatives that actually move the business forward.
What's Inside?
SKAL examines the entire digital and operational ecosystem, typically across both cost and operations together. The end process and all analysis are completely free of sales pressure, vendor or external influence, and platform bias.
- Digital and technology expenses
- Marketing, advertising, and agency spend
- Line-of-business applications and SaaS tools
- Vendor contracts, utilization, and performance
- Redundant, overlapping, or underused platforms
- End-to-end business processes
- Time- and error-prone workflows
- Manual work suitable for automation
- Data handoffs, rework loops, and bottlenecks
- Operational risk and fragility
- Platform alignment with actual needs
- Feature usage vs cost
- Integration gaps and workarounds
- Technical debt and hidden complexity
Key team member interviews
Skills, roles, and responsibility alignment
Tool ownership and accountability
Where work depends on “hero knowledge”
- Access to reporting, analytics, and dashboards
- ROI and effectiveness of digital investments
- Sales, marketing, and operational performance signals
- Business objectives and challenges
- Budget realities and planning cycles
- Funding opportunities (grants, loans, bursaries)
- Growth, transformation, or sustainability goals
Why SKAL Creates Real ROI
Independent audits consistently reveal that organizations:
Overspend 10–30% on underutilized or misaligned digital tools
Carry significant hidden costs in manual and error-prone workflows
Pay recurring agency or vendor fees for work that could be internalized
Lose productivity through fragmented systems and unclear ownership
SKAL doesn't just reduce costs, it funds better decisions and outcomes.
Organizations that act on SKAL's findings often see:
3-6m
Rapid cost recovery, often within the first 3-6 months
266%
Average first-year ROI in 2024 engagements
100%
Of SKAL engagements identify tangible savings and/or net new profit opportunities
Improved ROI from existing tools, without new spend
Faster execution once friction and duplication are removed
Better decision-making due to clearer data and ownership
What SKAL Is (and Isn’t)
SKAL is a deep, objective audit designed to provide clarity, not a sales exercise and not a surface-level review. It delivers independent, vendor-agnostic analysis that focuses on cost, operational efficiency, and real-world performance, grounded in how systems, tools, and workflows are actually used day to day. The intent is to produce actionable insight that leadership can confidently act on, not abstract recommendations or theoretical models.
SKAL is not a pitch for new tools or platforms, a generic benchmarking report, or a one-size-fits-all maturity assessment. It is also not a blame exercise. The purpose is to surface facts, trade-offs, and opportunities with honesty and neutrality so that decisions can be made based on reality, not assumptions or justification.
500+
Experience across hundreds of businesses just like yours.
18+
Years of experience helping businesses grow and improve through technology.
100%
Free of bias and borders - our sole objective is the most impactful guidance specific to you. Period.
Before spending more, make sure what you have is actually working.
SKAL gives you the clarity to reinvest with confidence.
Supported by the same "Pillars"
SKAL is built on Turner+Forsythe’s core pillars, including:
No bias
No vendors, no commissions, no agenda - 100% objective guidance based on your specific business
No borders
We get into the big picture, full-system perspectives, driven by collaboration with you, rooted in trust.
No BS or bloat
Substance over slides. If it doesn't move the needle, it doesn't matter.
Transparency and clarity
Clear trade-offs and implications, accountability, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Flexibility by design
Adapt scope and depth as needed, transition streams or programs - we work with you
SKAL as a Starting Point
For many clients, SKAL is the first and most valuable step. Whether empowering an existing plan, or being used to develop one - SKAL creates momentum instead of churn. By freeing up budget, time, and attention, organizations can:
1
Reinvest into higher-impact initiatives
2
Fund transformation without increasing spend
3
Move from reactive decisions to intentional cycles of improvement
4
Repeat investment cycles with confidence
SKAL Program Variants
Skal is a comprehensive audit and assessment program focused on cost, operations, systems, and performance - delivering clear findings and recommendations.
Turner+Forsythe also offers two program variants that further extend and amplify the program benefits, in specific circumstances.
SKAL plus structured roadmapping and planning.
Plus, we can stay on to manage implementation, ensuring insights turn into clear outcomes.
Start Now- Prioritized initiatives
- Sequenced execution plans
- Ownership, timelines, and success criteria
- Optional implementation management
A performance-based version of our SKAL programs.
Organizations may join the SKALx waiting list for future availability, as currently this service is fully subscribed.
Join the waiting list >- Invite-only program
- Compensation tied to realized savings / net new profits
- Defined measurement periods and guardrails
- Additional supporting options for non-profits
Where SKAL Fits Best
SKAL is ideal for organizations like the following, where trust, neutrality and clarity matter.
Suspect inefficiency but lack visibility / confirmation
Have accumulated tools, vendors, or agencies over time
Are preparing for growth, transformation, funding or significant change
Need objective validation before investing further
Want to do more - without spending more, and with more confidence
Amplified impact for non-profits
SKAL is particularly powerful for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations.
1 - Every dollar saved can be redirected to impact
2 - Reduced operational bloat increases program effectiveness
3 - Improved ROI strengthens funder and board confidence
4 - Nonprofit pricing accelerates time-to-value
In many nonprofit environments, SKAL findings alone can generate
meaningful net gains within months, without new funding or headcount.
Learn more about working with us for your non-profit organization or association >
Experience That Scales With You
We’ve worked at every altitude - from strategy to execution - so we know what actually works.
- 500+ organizations supported globally
- Nearly two decades of experience
- Startups to Fortune 500, nonprofits and national brands
- Deep expertise across manufacturing, logistics, construction, franchises, SaaS, and more
- Thousands of initiatives across growth, systems, automation, and transformation
Before spending more, make sure what you have is actually working.
SKAL gives you the clarity to reinvest with confidence. Get started today.
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