Selected work

Operational change with measurable outcomes.

Examples from Devan Akkus's in-house operations and delivery career, before founding Socium Ops. They show the kind of problems the consultancy is built to solve.

01 · AI delivery operations

Reducing structural overhead without weakening delivery.

Challenge

Rapid growth had created a costly leadership structure, blurred accountability and made delivery harder to control.

Intervention

Devan redesigned roles, governance, performance controls and management capacity, then supported a phased implementation.

  • €144k annualised savings
  • Structural overhead reduced from 40%+ to 20%

02 · Large-scale service delivery

Bringing overtime spend under control.

Challenge

Unstructured approvals and uneven coverage were increasing cost without reliably improving operational resilience.

Intervention

Devan introduced a formal approval process, workforce-planning framework, coverage redesign and reporting governance.

  • 30% overtime cost reduction
  • End-to-end workforce controls introduced

03 · Distributed operations

Replacing fragmented support with a controlled service workflow.

Challenge

Support for a workforce of more than 300 distributed contributors relied on fragmented channels, making ownership, consistency and performance difficult to manage.

Intervention

Devan led the move from Slack-based support to Intercom, redesigning workflows, knowledge, automation and performance visibility around the new system.

  • 300+ users transitioned
  • Structured support, knowledge and automation established

These are career case studies, not Socium Ops client claims. They are included to demonstrate the founder's directly relevant operational experience.

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