Case studies · Private equity · Turnarounds

Nigel Hunton: six businesses. One opening move.

A value-creation CEO who has used Tensense in six turnarounds to uncover where the risks sit.

01

The pattern

Six turnarounds, one constant.

Nigel has used Tensense as his opening move in six turnarounds to date. Each time the mandate is the same: understand a complex business quickly enough to protect the value-creation plan, and uncover the risks he can’t yet see for himself, before they do further damage.

02

What Tensense gives him

  • A view of the whole business, from the first cycle.

    A comparable picture across functions and regions, built on evidence, not just the anecdotes a new CEO hears first. It shows him where to engage.

  • The issues nobody raises.

    What trips up a new CEO is often what nobody says out loud. Tensense identifies issues across 16 key factors of organisational performance, with rapid reporting in their hands at the end of each cycle.

03

Through the turnaround

From his first few days.

His first results go to the board at its first meeting, alongside the turnaround plan. Run frequently, Tensense shows what is changing, and whether his actions are working. For owners and investors, that means a value-creation plan built on what is really happening in the business.

In their words

Straight from the source.

From the CEO

“The transformation wouldn’t have been possible had Tensense not been able to tell me the extent of the challenges faced by the business and continually inform me of how we were progressing in turning the company around.”
Nigel Hunton · CEO, Fralock; former CEO, Intevac

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