Clarity before action.
The Enterprise Readiness Assessment is the foundation of Corvata’s advisory work. It provides an objective view of how your business would appear to an external party—buyer, lender, auditor, regulator, or successor—before your organization is under pressure.
This assessment is not a diagnostic for isolated functions. It evaluates the business as an integrated enterprise.
Why the Assessment Exists
Most organizations operate without a shared, evidence-based understanding of readiness.
Assumptions replace facts. Urgency drives sequencing. Resources are deployed without clarity on where risk is truly concentrated.
The assessment exists to replace assumption with clarity—and activity with judgment.
What the Assessment Evaluates
The assessment examines readiness across core enterprise disciplines, including:
- strategy and business model clarity
- financial structure and credibility
- compliance posture and defensibility
- operational consistency and scalability
- governance, authority, and accountability
- people, incentives, and succession exposure
- systems, data, and reporting integrity
Each area is evaluated through an external-stakeholder lens.
How the Assessment Works
The assessment is structured, scored, and evidence-informed.
It combines:
- targeted questions designed to surface risk
- structured scoring to highlight gaps and concentration
- supporting artifacts where appropriate
- synthesis across disciplines to reveal interaction effects
The result is a coherent readiness profile—not a checklist of tasks.
What You Receive
Upon completion, you receive:
- a clear readiness baseline
- identified areas of concentrated risk
- insight into how issues compound across the enterprise
- a prioritized view of what matters most to value and transferability
This output becomes the reference point for all future advisory work.
The Enterprise Readiness Operating Model
See the operating model behind our assessment.
The Ten Enterprise Maturity Dimensions
Strategy & Enterprise Alignment
The degree to which the organization is intentionally designed to execute a clear strategy.
Governance, Ownership & Decision Rights
How authority, oversight, and accountability are structured to support sound decisions and risk management.
Financial Health & Value Creation
The organization’s ability to generate, measure, and sustain economic value.
Compliance, Risk & Controls
The strength of the organization’s defenses against regulatory, contractual, and operational risk.
Operations & Process Scalability
Whether core processes can scale predictably without degrading performance or control.
People, Culture & Organizational Design
The depth, alignment, and durability of human capital beyond individual contributors.
Technology, Data & Cyber Readiness
The extent to which systems, data, and security enable insight, efficiency, and resilience.
Revenue Model, Customers & Market Dependence
The quality, diversity, and sustainability of revenue sources.
Growth Readiness & Capital Strategy
The organization’s preparedness to deploy capital effectively in pursuit of growth.
Exit Readiness & Enterprise Value Realization
The organization’s ability to transfer ownership at maximum value with minimal friction.
Good decisions require clear sightlines.