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What should CEOs and Chairs expect to get from a management and organisation due diligence process?
Imagine the following scenario. As chief executive of a growth company, you have been working for months preparing a fund-raising process or sale to private equity. During the beauty parade of investors, almost all went out of their way to express…
Do you really have a strategy? A practical definition to help you know
One way to define what Catalysis does with investors and companies is that we (i) help directors create executable strategies and then, (ii), make sure that the managerial and organisational underpinnings of strategy execution are in place. On the first point, we don’t identify the ‘what’ of strategy…
Why the organisational balance sheet is as important as the financial one
You are, of course, very familiar with financial balance sheets and how they relate to on-going activities (think P&L) and concrete outcomes (cash). Likewise, you know about the category of intangibles, i.e. assets you cannot touch, see or count easily such as software…