WHO WE WORK WITH · HOLDING COMPANIES
Several companies. Each must be able to carry what the group needs next.
You watch over several companies from the top of the group, without being inside each one every day. Each company must be strong enough to deliver what the group will ask of it next. FEC can work with the group itself, inside one company, or across several, as the agreed work requires. The group and each company keep their own authority.
FROM WHERE YOU SIT
What you can see from the top of the group, and what you cannot.
- Companies in the same group can run very differently.
- The reports the group gets show results. They do not always show what produces them.
- One company that cannot handle its next stage can hold back what the group plans to do.
One group. Companies in different situations.
Each company must be able to handle what the group asks of it next. Each starts in a different situation.
WHAT THE GROUP NEEDS NEXT
WHEN TO BRING FEC IN
- A company in the group is entering a new stage.
- The group is asking a company to handle more than it was built for.
- A company does not have an ability, a system or a way of organising teams and managers that the group now needs.
- The group needs a clear view of whether a company is built for what comes next.
How FEC fits around your authority
STAYS WITH YOU
- The group's plans, and deciding where the group's money goes.
- Authority over each company's board and management.
- Decisions about what each company does next.
THE AGREED WORK CAN INCLUDE
- OPERATING JUDGMENT
- What the evidence from inside the companies shows, for the whole group, for one company or for several, as the agreed work requires.
- AGREED CHANGES
- Changes to how each company included in the agreed work runs, so it can handle what the group needs.
- AGREED BUILDS
- Abilities, systems or ways of organising teams and managers that a company does not have yet, built so the group can rely on them.
- CHECK AND KEEP WATCHING
- Whether what was changed and built keeps working, reported in a way the group can follow.
COMPANY AUTHORITYThe company keeps the final decision and stays in charge from start to finish.
Bring us the plan.
Tell us what the company is trying to do next.