What is a Capability Review?
The Capability Review is a structured examination of what's happening across the business and where performance is being constrained.
Depending on the situation, that may include:
The objective is not to produce a large consultancy report. It is to establish:
What is actually happening?
Why is it happening?
Which constraints matter most?
What should change first?
The output should give the CEO a clear view of where attention should go next.
The answer may be organisational. It may be commercial. It may be both.
I don't decide in advance which it will be. If the principal constraint isn't something I should help solve, I'll say so.
How it works
A conversation first
You don't commit to a Review before we speak. We talk through what's changed and whether a Review would be useful.
The Review
Typically two to four weeks, with a few hours from each leader involved. It draws on your numbers, conversations with you and your leadership team, and how decisions, information and work actually move through the business.
What you leave with
A clear view of what's happening, the few constraints that matter most and what should change first, talked through with you and, if you want, your leadership team.
What it costs
The Capability Review is a fixed fee, confirmed before the work begins.
What happens next
Some CEOs take the findings forward with their own team. Others ask me to stay alongside them as a CEO Operating Partner while the changes happen.
Planning a raise, acquisition, succession, investment or sale within the next 24 months?
Start before the process does. Buyers and investors examine the organisation behind your numbers: key-person dependency, decision rights, where knowledge sits, succession. That takes longer to build than a diligence process allows, and the businesses best placed to hold their position are the ones that prepared before the process began.