Ephor's Governance Methodology: Boardwalk

Organizational Governance: Chairmanship: BOD Expertise and Experience

Our holistic goverance process, titled Boardwalk, includes the following components and ensures maximization of wealth and achievement of the market opportunity:

Strategic Assessments & Analysis

• Business model analysis
• Companies position in industry, value proposition analysis, and needs assessments
• Organizational abilities and capacity against market opportunities
• Product and service portfolio analysis

Constituency Alignment

• Board of Director (BOD) leadership and structure
• Conflict resolution
• Stakeholder alignment programs
• Team building of Board of Directors and/or management

Operational Assessments & Analysis

• Business process analysis and development
• Functional capability and effectiveness analysis
• IT systems analysis and MIS evaluation
• Key performance indicator development and analysis by function
• Management process evaluation and effectiveness: Dashboards

Management Assessment & Analysis

• Coaching and counseling
• Management assessments
• Management process implementation
• Interim management services and management augmentation
• Recruitment needs and fulfillment
• Skill gap analysis: Training requirements

Business & Corporate Development Processes & Programs

• Analysis of sales, marketing, and program development
• Business development initiatives
• Corporate development initiatives
• M&A buy side activities
• Partner program design, development, and implementation
• Strategic alliance identification and program development

Talent, HR, and Workforce Strategy

• Analysis of requirements, solution definition, process development, and delivery of HCM solutions and execution of HRO services
• HCM/HRO strategy development through execution
• HR operations analysis and assessment
  
• Implementation of software, services, and methodology execution
• Organization design, modeling, and change management and alignment
• Product, service, and process review and best practice optimization
• Stability and transformation for mergers and acquisitions

Performance Improvement Process & Programs

• Corrective action programs
• Organizational structure and changes
• Process changes and enhancements
• Turnaround programs

Financial Analysis & Engineering

• Capital structure needs and analysis
• Financial measurements and metrics
• Outsourcing of services identification, vendor selection, and implementation
• Productivity and cost analysis

Capital Formation & Fundraising

• Capital allocation and sourcing
• Offering document development
• Structure and pricing
• Targeting of institutional investors

Many times companies engage us to solve a singular issue, but ninety percent of the time the solution needs a combination of strategic guidance, operational improvement, management augmentation, or capital in order to solve the underlying issues.
– Garry E. Meier, Ephor Group Founder.

Ephor Group can assist in the Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Assessment of companies at any stage of their company's lifecycle.