While the Garden & Co. offers a full range of organizational and management consulting services, the core of our offering is our proprietary Organizational Risk Assessment (ORA), which helps corporate leadership and investors such as private equity firms make better-informed strategic decisions. Garden & Co. ORAs provide a unique window on an organization’s current condition and future potential – and address the investment implications of organizational issues with concise, actionable advice.

ORAs have demonstrated particular utility for investors, who typically scrutinize a target company’s finances and strategy but don’t always undertake a rigorous, disciplined evaluation of the condition of its organization.

A rigorous organizational assessment adds value to the due diligence of a target company. A Garden & Co. ORA can help protect a investment by:

• Discovering high-risk issues from organizational and management effectiveness perspectives. This may lead an investor to structure the deal differently than originally envisioned or to make the deal contingent on certain organizational conditions.
• Providing an in-depth understanding of the organization, which may guide the post-investment, going-forward plan and short-term objectives.
• Identifying potential obstacles so they can be managed before they become risks.

 

 

A Garden Group ORA helps to answer the following questions:

• Does the current leader have the skill set to be CEO?
• What would be the impact if key leaders left the organization?
• What are the leadership styles and pros/cons of key players?
• Who has the informal power and leadership in the organization?
• What are the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of the organization? What would need to change in order to accomplish the business plan?
• Are there incompatibility issues in the current organization?
• Are there any potential conflicts between the organization and the new investors?
• Moving forward, what are the potential barriers to success?

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