Business Assessment™

Seeing the whole business.

Understand first. Advise second.

A complete reading of the business: where it stands, how it runs, how it is directed, its strengths, its weak points and its priorities. Everything we recommend afterwards rests on it.

Starting point

CHF 3,500

What we examine

Ten dimensions, one reading.

  1. The leader and what they are facing
  2. The business model
  3. Strategy
  4. Clients and market
  5. Finance and cash
  6. Organisation
  7. People
  8. Processes and digitalisation
  9. Governance
  10. Risks and opportunities

Business Index™

Where the business is solid,
and where it needs reinforcing.

Ten dimensions, placed on four levels. The mark sits further from the centre as the function is mastered. What stays close to the centre is what we address first.

Business Index, représentation illustrative : dix dimensions situées sur quatre paliers de maturité.0102030405060708091072/ 100
The four levels, from the centre outward: Fragile · Being built · Reliable · Mastered In bronze, the priorities: finance and cash, processes and digitalisation

Overall index · 72/100Hover over a dimension to read the detail.

  1. 01The leader and what they are facingMasteredThe direction is clear and owned. Priorities are named.
  2. 02The business modelReliableValue creation is understood; margin by offer is not yet isolated.
  3. 03StrategyReliableA three-year direction, with no costed scenarios beside it.
  4. 04Clients and marketReliableA healthy portfolio; concentration on the top five clients warrants attention.
  5. 05Finance and cashBeing builtThe figures are accurate, but land on day 25. No thirteen-week cash forecast.
  6. 06OrganisationReliableResponsibilities are set; financial delegation is not.
  7. 07PeopleReliableThe team is stable, payroll under control.
  8. 08Processes and digitalisationBeing builtData still travels through spreadsheets; the monthly close depends on one person.
  9. 09GovernanceReliableReporting exists. It informs more than it helps you decide.
  10. 10Risks and opportunitiesReliableOperational risks are identified; their financial effect is not.

An illustrative example, built on a typical business. The Business Index™, its criteria and the way it is read belong to Kelya.

How it unfolds

  1. A first conversation

    We take the measure of your context, what is at stake, and what is on your mind today.

  2. The review

    We examine the business across ten dimensions, drawing on your documents and on interviews.

  3. The debrief

    We hand over the Business Assessment™ Report and the recommendation that follows from it.

What you receive

Business Index™

Our reading of the maturity of the business, function by function. It shows where the company is solid and where it needs strengthening.

Business Assessment™ Report

Your situation set down in writing: what is working, what is exposing you, and the priorities we draw from it.

Why start with the Business Assessment™?

The Business Assessment™ lets us understand your situation before putting forward any recommendation.

Does the Business Assessment™ commit us to what follows?

It concludes with a recommendation. What happens next is yours to decide.

The support that follows

Each situation calls for its own level of support.

The recommendation names the level that matches the maturity and the priorities of the business.

Foundation
Build
Build the foundations that direction requires.
The mandate
Momentum
Drive
Turn information into decisions, and decisions into performance.
The mandate
Legacy
Weigh & transform
Support the decisions that shape the future of the business.
The mandate

Start with a clear reading of your business.

The Business Assessment™ concludes with a recommendation.