24 September 2026 15:45 - 16:15
From delivery org to value engine: What it actually takes to scale without scaling headcount
Most delivery organisations grow the same way: more customers means more headcount, more project managers, more manual touchpoints. Eventually that model breaks.
In this session, Ramya Sugumar will share how she rebuilt a traditional delivery function into a scalable customer value engine. Drawing on experience scaling enterprise SaaS organisations through IPOs and M&A, she'll unpack the levers that made it possible: cutting time-to-value nearly in half, doubling customer activation in the first 90 days, and shifting her team's highest-impact people onto the work that actually drives retention and expansion.
Key learnings:
- How to turn delivery from a cost centre CCOs defend into a revenue engine they get credit for
- The exact levers that cut time-to-value nearly in half, and how to apply them without adding headcount
- How to double activation in the first 90 days by fixing the handoff between sales, delivery and success
- Where to deploy your highest-impact people once automation takes manual work off their plate