Amplify your world.
We help companies improve how they operate. That means working with everyone from the front line to the CEO, and making sure the strategy in the boardroom actually shows up in the work.
Who we are
Crescendeo is a small consultancy that helps organizations of all sizes improve. We may help a CTO change their approach to product development; a CIO improve how systems are maintained; or a COO ensure processes are improved in step with technology. We can work with Finance and Compliance to track outcomes while also ensuring the organization is adhering to regulations. Crescendeo has helped manufacturing plants and the supply chain make improvement truly continuous.
Crescendeo was founded in 2017 by Josh Kite, an industrial and systems engineer with an MBA and over 25 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies. Josh has spent his career bridging business needs, technology management, and process improvement. He brings knowledge from a wide range of sources and has applied that knowledge to everything from changing potato chip drums to high school theatre. Despite the fact that he can't get code to compile in any language he's a named inventor on three software patents.
As a microbusiness Crescendeo partners with other boutique consultancies which means you may have worked with us without ever hearing our name. At the same time, we do work with clients directly and can partner with other microbusinesses and boutiques we know and trust when we need additional people or skills beyond our core. With Crescendeo you get the right team working in the right way without the overhead of a big-brand consulting company.
How we help
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Operational improvement
Find where work gets stuck, make it visible and fix it with the people who actually do it. We don't chase efficiency for its own sake; we optimize for what matters to your business.
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Strategy to execution
A strategy only matters if it shows up in the work. We help executives turn strategy into funded, prioritized work, then track whether that work delivered what it promised.
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Ways of working and tools
Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or a mix of all of them: we help you choose what fits, then set up tools that serve the people doing the work first and management second.
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Training and coaching
Change is hard. We coach leaders and teams through it, and we teach workshops and certification classes, including Scaled Agile Framework® courses.
Notes from the work
Choosing a work-tracking tool
About 60 tools screened against a multi-level portfolio and team operating model, with a shortlist matrix, cost by team size and product risk.
- Work Hard in SilenceNovember 2, 2026Why this site is rarely updated, and why I'm OK with that
- Efficiency Doesn't MatterJune 1, 2018Why an industrial engineer stopped optimizing for efficiency alone, by way of a theme park queue.
- SAFe® in Azure DevOpsJune 13, 2022Series overview: one proven approach to setting up Azure DevOps Boards for ARTs and teams.
Contact us
Something not working the way it should? Change is hard. We can help. Send a note or give us a call and we'll set up a time to talk.
- josh@crescendeo.com
- Phone
- 678.888.5522
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia area
