The managed partnership

A partner who keeps your business moving toward its goals.

EPS works alongside you and your team: an honest assessment of where the business stands, a plan with the measures that show progress, and a review on your cadence, prepared from your own records, so your time goes to the decisions only you can make.

What you will learn along the way

A partnership is coaching as much as delivery. Each session works on one of three things, and you leave with a clearer view of it.

  • About yourself as the owner

    How you make decisions, where your time and attention go, and which work only you should be doing.

  • About the systems in your business

    How work actually flows, where it stalls or depends on you, and which measures show it.

  • About the world your business operates in

    Your customers, competitors, suppliers, regulation and the economy around you, and what they mean for your plan.

What EPS helps with

Ten lines of work, each on a domain of EVA™, EPS's Enterprise Value Architecture, and each delivered in the workspace you already use.

  • Assess and diagnose

    An EVA™ assessment by an EPS assessor, a readout, and the few gaps ranked.

    In the workspaceAssessment

    EVA™ · Business, Value

  • Strategy and the annual plan

    A one-year direction, its objectives, and 90-day priorities with an owner each.

    In the workspacePlan

    EVA™ · Strategic

  • Measures and performance

    The handful of measures that matter, their targets, and a monthly look at them.

    In the workspaceFigures and targets

    EVA™ · Operational, Value

  • The monthly rhythm

    A facilitated monthly review, and the briefing prepared for you to issue.

    In the workspaceBriefing and Meetings

    EVA™ · Delivery, Human

  • Initiative delivery

    The few initiatives that matter, run with milestones and an owner each.

    In the workspacePlan

    EVA™ · Delivery

  • Operations and process

    The processes that break when you are away, mapped, with roles and decision rights made clear.

    In the workspaceDecisions, and outside the workspace

    EVA™ · Organizational, Operational

  • Growth and proposals

    Pipeline discipline, a capability statement, readiness for RFPs, and case studies from your own wins.

    In the workspacePipeline, Opportunities, Statement and Proof

    EVA™ · Business

  • Risk, obligations and governance

    A risk register, a decision log, and a calendar of what is due.

    In the workspaceRisks, Decisions and Obligations

    EVA™ · Organizational

  • Financial clarity

    Scenarios before big decisions, and a lender or investor packet. Advisory only: never bookkeeping, tax or attest work.

    In the workspaceScenarios and Proof

    EVA™ · Value

  • Data and AI readiness

    Your figures flowing in from QuickBooks Online or VendMetric, and the Owner's Advisor used well.

    In the workspaceImport and the Advisor

    EVA™ · Intelligence

Start with a clear view of where you stand

The EVA™ capability assessment scores eight domains of how the business runs, from your own answers, and names the weakest link, so you know where to put your effort first.

  • Your scores, read with an EPS assessor
  • The weakest link named, not buried
  • A 90-day roadmap from the readout
The EVA™ capability assessment in the demo's invented business: an index of 65.4 out of 100, stage 3 of 5, with the weakest link, Value Architecture, named, and each domain's score.
A demonstration business: the EVA™ capability assessment

Then a plan you can see moving

Objectives, the initiatives that move them, an owner and dates for each. Status is worked out from progress against the dates, so you see what is slipping while there is still time to act.

  • 90-day priorities, each with an owner
  • Milestones that are the initiative's own steps
  • Reviewed on the cadence you choose
The Plan in the demo's invented business, Corliss Ridge Advisory: an objective to grow recurring revenue, with an initiative, its owner, its dates and its progress against what was expected.
A demonstration business, Corliss Ridge Advisory: the Plan

Three ways to engage

Choose how often we work together. Each is priced by conversation, so it fits what the business needs.

One time

Assess

Know where the business stands, and exactly what to fix first.

  • The EVA™ capability assessment, with an EPS assessor
  • A readout session with you
  • A 90-day roadmap, kept in your Plan

Priced by conversation

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Monthly

Partner

A monthly rhythm that keeps the plan moving, with a partner beside you.

  • A monthly review with you
  • The briefing prepared for you to issue
  • The plan and measures kept with you
  • A quarterly planning session
  • An annual reassessment

Priced by conversation

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Weekly

Embedded

An operations partner working inside the business every week.

  • A weekly working session with your leadership team
  • Initiatives delivered with you
  • The operating rhythm held week to week

Priced by conversation

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What you can count on

  • A rhythm you can rely on

    The cadence and what each session produces are agreed up front, and progress is measured against the goals you set.

  • Advice from your own records

    We work from the figures you entered or imported, and every one opens to its records, so you can see what each conversation rests on.

  • You stay in control

    You choose who comes in and what they can do, you issue what goes out, and you can end our access at any time.

  • Clear about scope

    Our financial work is advisory. Your accountant keeps the books and the taxes; we help you use the numbers to decide.

How a partnership starts

  1. A 30-minute call

    What the business is working toward, and how a partnership would help you get there.

  2. The assessment

    The EVA™ capability assessment, and a readout of where the business stands.

  3. The plan and its measures

    A plan for the year, priorities for the next 90 days, and the measures that show progress.

  4. The rhythm

    The review on the cadence you chose, prepared from your records, for you to decide and issue.

Find out what a partnership would do for your business

In 30 minutes: what you are working toward, which package fits, and what it would cost.