Turnaround
Capabilities Mapping + Change Program Design
During large-scale performance improvement and change initiatives, organizations often fail when translating strategic intent into meaningful action. Why? Change happens at the operational level, and they neglect to define which core functional capabilities they need to evolve or which new ones they need to establish to support their new strategic direction. Our Capabilities Mapping + Change Program Design services are purpose-built to close this gap.
To bridge strategy and execution, we define the functional capabilities our client’s business operations must possess, assess the current maturity levels of those functional requirements, and ID the specific interventions needed across people, processes, and systems to close any existing maturity gaps. We typically deliver 3–5-year Crawl-Walk-Run plans that create clarity on which capabilities to mature and that set clear priorities on which to focus on, when, and how.
Turnaround
Turnaround situations don’t appear overnight. Instead, organizations requiring a turnaround find themselves staring into the void due to chronically weak muscles and sinew — core capabilities that have atrophied or ones that an organization failed to properly focus on or develop. Not necessarily due to a lack of will or desire for excellence but, perhaps, due to a lack of access to the resources (financial and human) needed to define and build sustainable capabilities. Regardless of the cause, those weaknesses cause organizations to either pursue the wrong strategy or execute the right ones poorly, leading to systematic, sustained failures. Failure to deliver on the outcomes stakeholders and customers demand poses an existential risk related to ongoing viability.
Our Capabilities Mapping + Change Program Design services provide the essential framework to rapidly diagnose and strengthen these weak points, transforming fragile capabilities into robust, high-performing assets.
We are best-in-class at diagnosing the specific individual factors that drive share and profit performance in markets.
fu.sion
More so than any of our other services, our approach to turnarounds focuses on speed.
Through intense collaboration with our clients, we leverage fu.sion’s proven frameworks and algorithms, including in the ACCELERATOR, to quickly identify the root causes creating the need for a turnaround and the weak muscles and sinew that must be matured to address those root causes. This allows us to map not just the capabilities required for survival, but to understand why existing capabilities are underperforming or misdirected. Our approach delivers a brutally honest assessment of current capability maturity, pinpointing which muscles need immediate strengthening and which new ones must be developed to pull the organization back from the brink.
Prioritization in this context is critical. With resources not only scarce but diminishing and time running out, we focus on rapidly building or strengthening the core capabilities essential for stemming the immediate crisis, with a focus on ones that will deliver the most immediate impact on organizational performance. Simultaneously, we lay the groundwork for developing the capabilities that will drive future stability and growth.
fu.sion AI serves as both diagnostician and advisor in this pressure cooker environment — one in which it may be difficult for client teams to see clearly and without emotion. Drawing from a wealth of turnaround best practices, fu.sion AI helps clients understand not just where they're weak, but why, and how to rapidly improve capability maturity, ensuring that foundational organizational muscles are strengthened to support the weight of the turnaround effort as a whole.
The result: a comprehensive capability transformation roadmap focused on the intense, targeted capability building needed to pull organizations back from the edge, turning atrophied muscles into the powerful drivers of sustained, long-term leadership. One that allows for action at the speed needed to stem greater chaos and further decline.
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— Division President at a $6B Industrial and Technology Solutions Player
