WHO WE WORK WITH · PRIVATE EQUITY
The plan is backed by investors. The company still has to carry it.
You put money into the company, or act for those who did, and you answer for what happens next. FEC looks inside the company to find out whether it is strong enough to deliver the plan: to do everything the plan will ask of it. Where the company agrees, FEC changes and builds what it needs.
FROM WHERE YOU SIT
What you can see as an investor, and what you cannot.
- You see the plan, the numbers and the reports. You do not see every part of how the company runs.
- Management's confidence matters. It is not the same as knowing the company is built for what comes next.
- When results fall short, the cause is not always a person. It can be in how the company runs.
The plan assumes things about the company.
From the investor's side, they can only be assumed. Inside the company, they can be examined.
THE PLANFOR EXAMPLE
THE COMPANY
WHEN TO BRING FEC IN
- Before a big new project or a bigger commitment, when you need evidence from inside the company before you decide.
- When the plan starts slipping and the reason is not yet clear.
- When the plan relies on an ability, a system or a way of organising teams and managers that the company does not have yet.
- When doubts about whether the company can deliver the plan need to be settled before the next decision.
How FEC fits around your authority
STAYS WITH YOU
- The investment decision and the plan.
- Watching over the company as its investor. The company's board and managers keep their own authority.
- Decisions about management.
THE AGREED WORK CAN INCLUDE
- OPERATING JUDGMENT
- What the evidence from inside the company shows about the plan, before the next decision.
- AGREED CHANGES
- Changes inside the company that the plan depends on.
- AGREED BUILDS
- What the plan needs and the company does not yet have.
- CHECK AND KEEP WATCHING
- Whether what was changed and built keeps working as the plan moves forward.
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.