FOR INVESTORS, FAMILY OFFICES AND ADVISERS
An independent Organisational Capability Review for investors in aviation and specialist scale-ups. Examine founder dependency, decision flow, organisational memory and management capacity before deciding what must be strengthened.
20 questions · Immediate result · No email required
THE FIRST DOOR, NOT THE FINAL WORD
FOUNDER SELF-ASSESSMENT
Founders are close enough to feel every pressure but may be too immersed to see the whole system. The Diagnostic creates distance and identifies where growth is producing dependency, delay or fragile capability.
INVESTOR JUDGEMENT
Investors can answer from the evidence currently available to expose assumptions, unanswered questions and potential work required after investment. It is an orientation aid, not a verdict on the company or the deal.
WHAT TO EXAMINE
Important decisions, relationships or recoveries still require one person.
Authority is unclear, so choices queue, drift or escalate unnecessarily.
Critical know-how lives in people’s heads rather than in the organisation.
Delivery depends on informal relationships and repeated intervention.
The next layer lacks the remit, confidence or support to execute the plan.
Revenue has grown faster than routines, roles and organisational learning.
AI and technology are accelerating ambiguity instead of removing friction.
FROM INDICATION TO EVIDENCE
Use the Diagnostic to expose patterns, uncertainties and assumptions worth testing.
Compare leadership accounts with selected documents, routines and operational evidence.
Trace key decisions, dependencies, handoffs and where organisational learning is lost.
Separate strengths, risks and open questions, then identify the first practical course corrections.
THE OUTPUT
The review is designed to support an investment discussion and the early value-creation agenda without pretending that a single score can describe an organisation.
INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT
James Hardie brings more than 30 years across military, commercial and business aviation, technology delivery, board advice and an MSc in Organisational Psychology. Every engagement is led personally and designed to leave the organisation more capable, not dependent on another adviser.
OPEN THE FIRST DOOR
Use the same Diagnostic available to founders, or discuss how a proportionate review could support a live opportunity or portfolio company.
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