Outcome-based solution
Business Turnaround Assessment
A fact-based recovery plan that addresses cash, operations, leadership and execution.
When it fits
- Performance is deteriorating and the causes are disputed.
- Cash, service, quality or delivery pressure is escalating.
- The board needs an independent, actionable view.
Who it is for
CEO, board, lender, PE sponsor
Measures of success
- Cash stabilization
- EBITDA and productivity opportunity
- Service and operational recovery
- Milestone execution
Where it starts
A QuickScan or an Accelerator
QuickScan
- Review financial and operating summaries.
- Interview the sponsor and selected leaders.
- Identify immediate risks, root-cause hypotheses and critical data needs.
Accelerator
- Conduct targeted financial, operational, commercial and organizational analysis.
- Stress-test management actions.
- Build preliminary stabilization choices.
Timing assumes a defined issue, sponsor availability, timely access to summary data and a limited number of stakeholder interviews. ISI confirms final timing before the assessment begins.
Then
The 30-business-day diagnostic
Week 1
Establish the performance baseline, cash risks, decision rights and control room.
Week 2
Diagnose commercial, cost, operations, supply chain, organization and execution.
Week 3
Build stabilization actions, recovery initiatives, economics and scenarios.
Week 4
Deliver a board-ready turnaround plan and 13-week execution governance.
Executive deliverables
- Root-cause fact base
- Immediate stabilization actions
- Turnaround initiative portfolio
- Board and management cadence
Follow-on implementation
- Interim transformation leadership
- Turnaround Management Office
- Cost and cash workstreams
- Weekly benefits and risk reviews
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Start with a QuickScan or an Accelerator
The request form opens with Business Turnaround Assessment already selected. ISI confirms scope, timing, data requirements and commercial terms before any work begins.