Scan BUSINESS
Organizational Audit
Evaluate Your Organization And Identify The Key Levers To Optimize Your Company's Performance
A Comprehensive Organizational Audit of Your Company
How to strengthen the solidity and resilience of your company? How can your company achieve the goals it sets? How can it maintain or improve its performance? Scan BUSINESS aims to answer these questions and evaluates 5 essential pillars for the success of your company :
- Governance bodies.
- Decision-making and delegation.
- Risk management.
- Competence, alignment and effectiveness of the management team.
- Managerial practices.
- 5-year Vision.
- Business model relevance.
- Clarity of the company’s roadmap and objectives.
- Alignment of managers with strategic priorities
- Objectives by department.
- Definition of KPIs and performance monitoring.
- Values and behaviors.
- Team well-being and engagement.
- Working conditions.
- Diversity and inclusion and CSR policy.
- Structure, organization and organization chart.
- Key processes.
- Efficiency of departments and functions.
- Allocation of resources.
- Internal communication, cooperation and coordination.
- Recruitment capacity.
- Workforce planning.
- Skills development programs.
- Compensation policy.
- Loyalty and retention plans.
- Succession planning.
Main Contexts Of Intervention
Scan BUSINESS can be implemented at various key moments in the life of your company to support its performance and help it succeed :
Identify and assess the risks and opportunities for improving a company’s performance in the context of a merger, acquisition or investment.
Support your rapid growth by strategically aligning your organization and human capital with your ambitions.
Navigate successfully through major changes by understanding internal company dynamics and adjusting effectively.
Quickly diagnose the root causes of underperformance and develop strategies to rectify the situation.
The Advantages of Our Solution
Scan BUSINESS has 5 advantages that make our solution the reference for leaders and investors :
We use digital tools to carry out rapid assessments that require few resources and little time on the part of our customers and contacts.
The audit relies on the knowledge of the company and the collective intelligence of the organization’s key people, which in turn facilitates acceptance of the recommendations. This collaborative diagnosis highlights consensus and divergence, and can be completed and challenged by an organizational expert for a pertinent analysis.
We collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to provide new, measurable information, make relevant diagnoses, and inform the decision-making of managers and investors.
We adapt our approach according to the complexity of the situation and our customers’ constraints, offering either a quick “Flash” audit for a general overview, or an in-depth “Deep Dive” analysis for a detailed understanding of the issues at stake.
We make recommendations and support the necessary changes and transformations for executives and management teams.
The Stages Of Scan BUSINESS
Scan BUSINESS can be completed within 2 to 4 weeks. We provide long-term support for the development and success of your company :
Preparation
- Understanding the context and expectations
- Identify the company’s objectives
- Framing with the sponsor and definition of the evaluation system
Diagnostics
- Scan BUSINESS online questionnaire completed by 5 to 50 key people in the company
- Optional – Individual interviews with key persons
- Gather key information and KPIS on the company
Results
- Results report submitted to sponsor and management team
- Quantitative and qualitative results from the online questionnaire
- Diagnosis and recommendations
Value Creation Advisory (optional)
- Support for the management team on one or more pillars
- Targeted actions for effective transformation
Yearly Followup (Optional)
- Annual assessment with Scan BUSINESS online questionnaire for teams to measure progress and identify improvement actions
Value Creation Advisory
Our Advisory Services Are Centered Around The Company's Objectives
Following Scan BUSINESS, we provide advisory services to help companies achieve their goals :
- Achievement of key operational milestones.
- Market share and geographic expansion.
- Sale of the company / Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) / Strategic investments.
- Level of customer satisfaction.
- Product and service quality.
- Level of staff turnover.
- Sales growth.
- Company profitability.
- Maximizing enterprise value.
- Free Cash Flow.
- Healthy cash flow and working capital management.
- Financing structure and level of debt.
- Employee health and well-being.
- Corporate culture and employee commitment.
- Positive impact on stakeholders.
- Environmental performance.
- Commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development.
- Carbon footprint and greenhouse gas reduction initiatives.
- Diversity and equity measures within the company.
Our Advisory Services Focus On 5 Pillars
Based on the company's objectives and needs, we can intervene on 5 pillars :
- Individual coaching for managers (taking up positions, development, transition and change support).
- Creation / Reorganization of the CODIR / COMEX.
- Alignment and conflict management between partners, directors, president/CEO.
- Coaching for the management team (collective efficiency, cooperation, cohesion).
- Definition of a managerial skills framework and improvement of managerial practices.
- Collective definition of a 3- or 5-year vision.
- Redefining the business model.
- Collective definition of roadmap and corporate objectives.
- Breakdown of objectives by department.
- Definition of KPIs and performance monitoring.
- Conduct employee surveys and define plans to improve team well-being and commitment.
- Development of corporate values.
- Definition of a managerial skills framework.
- Improving management practices.
- Organizational design
- Organization chart definition
- Improving the efficiency of departments, sites or BUs
- Dismantling and improving cooperation and collaboration within the company
- Definition of the company’s HR policy.
- Definition of recruitment needs and workforce planning.
- Employer brand development.
- Help in defining a training and development plan.
Contact us
Your contact: David Chouraqui
Areas of expertise:
- Management and governance
- Corporate finance, M&A and private equity
- Emotional and relational intelligence
- Entrepreneurship and business development
- Team well-being and performance
A former private equity investor and entrepreneur, David has been working with executives, entrepreneurs and managers for the past 11 years, helping them to manage and drive change, and to develop their businesses and teams. He specializes in coaching executives and management teams.
- Executive coach & advisor
- HEC Grande Ecole graduate
- Trained in systemic coaching (Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching) and HOGAN-certified (Leadership Personality Assessments)
- Since 2012: Founder of WINGMIND, a human capital consulting firm specializing in HR audits, assessments and executive coaching.
- 2010-2015: Digital entrepreneur. Founder of Closing Circle, a digital media company dedicated to private equity and mergers & acquisitions, which he sold to the Leaders League media group in July 2015.
- 2005-2010: Private equity investor. European business development manager for a US private equity firm specializing in the acquisition of technology and telecom companies
- Since 2013: Professor of management, entrepreneurship and finance in business schools
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