In Practice

Consulting

Delivering Sharper Insights to Clients, Faster

QInsights gave a consulting firm a faster path from open-ended survey responses to client-ready diagnosis, without sacrificing cross-departmental nuance.

Marcus Dahl, Managing Partner — Align OD Consulting

We used to dread the analysis phase. Now it is the part we look forward to.

Marcus Dahl, Managing Partner, Align OD Consulting

The Challenge

Align OD Consulting works with mid-sized companies on culture change, leadership transitions, and post-merger integration. Their diagnostics often include 300 or more open-ended responses from multiple departments.

Manual coding slowed every engagement down. It took days just to organize and interpret the material, and the effort introduced inconsistency across analysts while making department-by-department comparison cumbersome.

By the time themes were ready, the team had already spent significant energy just preparing the data rather than thinking strategically with it.

We were spending two to three days just getting the data ready to think about.

Marcus Dahl, Align OD Consulting

The Solution

The firm adopted QInsights as its standard diagnostic engine. Consultants upload the full response set and ask focused questions by function, such as how production differs from sales or where HR and frontline teams fundamentally disagree.

Because QInsights generates descriptive themes across the whole dataset quickly, the team can move straight from data collection into interpretation without a manual coding step.

Within an hour of closing the survey, we already know where the fault lines are. That changes how we walk into every client conversation.

Marcus Dahl, Align OD Consulting

The Impact

QInsights cut the time to client-ready insight by 80%, but the more valuable gain was better use of consultant attention. Analysts now spend their time interpreting findings in context, challenging assumptions, and shaping change interventions.

Cross-departmental comparison has become a central part of client presentations, making the firm faster and sharper in how it frames organizational fault lines.

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