We believe there is a red line from strategy through to your plan (a plan isn’t a strategy and a strategy isn’t a plan) to what you review as a board. If you are a private-equity-backed company, the line continues into the reporting across the portfolio. We believe these things are connected. They drive and are driven by each other.
As a consequence, we provide three core offerings:
Value Creation Planning
Forged on aspiration. Finessed in isolation. Forgotten in a moment.
Value Creation Plans (VCPs) are the synthesis of your strategy. But all too often, they are nothing but a list of lofty goals, heavy in spreadsheet modelling and lacking in outward customer and competitor insight.
VCPs should be robust and deliverable plans showing how a company plans to achieve value growth within an investor’s hold period. And just like any strategy or plan, they should be living – continually updated with live data.
An always on, differentiated and well-articulated strategy that drives the plan, what you do and how you report.
Too long, too dull, too ugly, too opaque and always too late.
The board is the pinnacle of management. It’s where the big questions are asked and the big decisions are made. Discussions should be productive, open and informed by up-to-date and relevant facts.
The reality is anything but. Members often have no time to read lengthy, overloaded board reports. The big issues get lost in a mass of operational detail. Numbers are everywhere but insight is nowhere.
We founded Ārahi because we believed there had to be a better way.
Inconsistent, inaccurate, inefficient, so ineffective.
How well is your portfolio performing? Where are you off target or in a possible covenant breach? Is the Investment Committee across all the key issues? Is it leveraging the wisdom of the team and supporting the case officer? Is management effectively supported?
Are you demonstrating scalability, and added value to your LPs or investor base? Are you confident they will back you on your next funding round? Are you adding value to your portfolio companies? Or is it just a monthly chore?
Portfolio reporting should answer questions, not create them. It should add value not destroy it. It should help not hinder.
Our support services is the third leg to our offerings. We’ve sat where you’ve sat. We’ve lived the pain and negotiated the traps. We’ve been humbled by life. We select our consultants based not only on their smarts and experience, but on their willingness to muck in.
Our model is flexible. It can range from a few days every quarter to support your Board preparation (we call this the quarterly check-ins) to a full on project to help design the Strategy and develop the Value Creation Plan as part of our senior team.
Training
We live in the knowledge economy. Life-long learning is key to us all.
We deliver our training in person. We strongly believe this is the best way to help our clients. We have experiences to share. We like the human touch.
Our training distils a lifetime of lessons. Our frameworks, methods and exercises come together in over 70 bite-size set pieces.
Creating breakthrough returns is hard. Many try. Most fail.
We aim to help you improve the odds of success. Give you speed and build momentum. All this while helping your entire team align. Truly align and then commit.
We run workshops with leadership teams to tease out answers to pressing questions. We interview clients to better understand your value landscape. And simply, we do heaving lifting financial, sales or customer analysis to accelerate the process
Once you’ve committed to our platform, you will no doubt be eager to get going. We will not let your excitement drop, but will lead you seamlessly into the thrill of using it.
Our implementation process gets you live in minutes. Expect to get value within a matter of days and weeks.
We will make it yours. Your data. Your board reporting structure. Your brand. Your colours, brand assets, font and personality. Your secure tenant.
