The paid executive diagnostic

Organisational Capability Review

Understand where organisational capability is keeping pace with the business, and where it isn't.

As businesses grow, commercial complexity can develop faster than the organisation's ability to carry it. The Organisational Capability Review™ provides leadership teams with an independent view of where capability is strong, where it is under pressure and where dependency may be constraining what comes next.

For CEOs, MDs, founders and leadership teams · Established B2B businesses · Typically £1M–£20M revenue

01Who it is for

Leadership teams whose business has become harder to run as it has grown.

CEOs, MDs, founders and leadership teams of established B2B businesses, typically between £1M and £20M revenue. The Review is usually commissioned when one or more of the following is true:

The business has become harder to run as it has grown
Too many decisions escalate to senior leadership
Execution increasingly depends on particular people
Leadership capacity has not kept pace with headcount
Functions work individually but struggle collectively
The organisation is preparing for another phase of growth
The founder or CEO wants to reduce key-person dependency
Leadership succession is becoming important
Investment, diligence, acquisition or ownership transition is plausible within 24 months
02What the Review examines

Five capabilities. One organisation.

Direction

Can the organisation make clear strategic choices and align behind them?

Execution

Can the organisation reliably deliver as complexity increases?

Leadership

Are leaders building capability through others?

Coordination

Can work move across the organisation without repeatedly returning to the centre?

Institution

Can critical capability survive changes in key people?

Within those five capabilities the Review also examines:

Decision rightsLeadership dependencyKey-person concentrationOperating visibilityCross-functional coordinationKnowledge concentrationOrganisational resilience

The thinking behind the five capabilities →

03What you receive

A board-level view of the organisation behind the numbers.

The deliverable

Executive Capability Report™

A written report for the leadership team and board: capability scores across the five capabilities, a Capability Heat Map™ of the twenty-five underlying drivers, and the observations and recommendations below. Delivered and discussed in an executive debrief.

Included

Capability Heat Map™

Where capability is strong, where it is under pressure and where it is absent, driver by driver.

Included

Priority organisational constraints

The small number of constraints that explain most of the symptoms, ranked by consequence.

Included

Key dependency observations

Where performance, knowledge, relationships and decisions concentrate in particular people.

Included

Decision and leadership observations

How decisions actually move, where authority and responsibility have separated, and what routes back to the centre.

Included

Prioritised recommendations

What to address first, what can wait, and what the leadership team can do without further help.

Next stage, if wanted

Capability Roadmap™

The sequenced twelve-month plan is a separate, subsequent piece of work, built only where the Review indicates a meaningful capability issue and the leadership team chooses to continue.

The Review is a fixed-fee, paid diagnostic. Fees are confirmed on the call once the size and complexity of the organisation are understood. There is no obligation to continue afterwards.

04Process

Typically two to four weeks, and a few hours from each participating leader.

STEP 01

Initial leadership discussion

Where the business is heading, what has changed, and where organisational pressure is being felt. Scope and participants agreed.

STEP 02

Evidence and organisational input

Structured input from the leadership team and relevant roles, alongside the operating information the business already produces.

STEP 03

Capability analysis

Assessment across the five capabilities and twenty-five drivers: scoring, dependency mapping and constraint identification.

STEP 04

Leadership review

Findings tested with the leadership team before they are finalised, so the report reflects the organisation as it actually operates.

STEP 05

Executive Capability Report™

The written report, Capability Heat Map™ and recommendations, presented and discussed in an executive debrief.

STEP 06

Prioritisation and next steps

What to act on first, and a decision about whether any further involvement from ClarityOS is useful.

05What happens next

The Review ends with a decision, not an obligation.

The next step

Discuss an Organisational Capability Review

A focused thirty-minute conversation about where organisational capability may be falling behind the complexity of the business. No pitch deck, and a straight answer in both directions.

Discuss a Capability Review

Not ready for a conversation? Assess Your Capability Gap → takes five minutes and gives an initial indication across the five capabilities.