Current value trend
Revenue, profit and market share — decline, stagnation or growth.
Phase 1 · Detect
2ndOpinion™ is an independent, board-level diagnostic of your current strategy. We test your strategy, financial performance and operating model against your goals, market position and emerging AI-era opportunities—and give you a clear conclusion: stay course, adjust or redesign. One price. One verdict your board can act on.
Your submission stays strictly confidential — all client data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and is never shared or used to train any models.
When it matters
Before approving a new three-year strategy or budget.
When growth has stalled despite apparently sound plans.
Before committing significant capital to executing the current strategy.
When market, technology or AI changes may have invalidated earlier assumptions.
Following a CEO, owner or major leadership transition.
When the board and management are no longer fully aligned on the strategic direction.
How we read your business
Seven short sections on purpose, strategy, financials, targets, challenges, operating model and your own concerns — plus any documents behind them.
The submission is read against six analysis areas, scored on five-point scales, and tested with the frames an experienced strategic advisor would use.
No report reaches you automatically. A Techboard executive reads the diagnostic and releases it only once it holds up.
What it is
Boards rarely fail for lack of a strategy. They fail because nobody re-tests the one they have against what the market has quietly become.
2ndOpinion™ takes your purpose, strategy, financial history and budget, growth targets, known challenges and operating model — plus the documents behind them — and evaluates them with the objectivity and judgement of an experienced external strategist
You get a final verdict - stay course, adjust, or redesign. The full report includes an executive summary, scores on five-point scales, area-by-area findings, goal alignment, competitive position, growth opportunities and a short list of what actually needs attention.
The analysis
Revenue, profit and market share — decline, stagnation or growth.
Purpose and business idea, value chain, competitive advantage, governance structure.
Commercial (ROS), economic (ROIC) and financial (ROE) performance.
Top line and mix, cost base, balance sheet leverage, cash flow.
Market growth, product/market fit, customer demand and churn, competitive pressure.
Where the company sits in the AI-Fabric™- four stages of AI value creation: productivity increase, customer value improvement, value-chain expansion, ecosystem control.
What you receive
Available as a three-page 2ndOpinion™ Snapshot containing the Executive Summary and Diagnostic Scorecard, or the complete Strategic Diagnostic with all nine sections and an advisory walkthrough with a Techboard executive. See pricing.
Full Strategic Diagnostic · nine sections · advisory walkthrough
2ndOpinion™ Snapshot · three pages
A one-page conclusion-led summary of the situation, core problem, value impact and recommended action.
Strategy quality and execution risk scores, value trend, and scored exhibits.
Available on its own. The full fee is credited in full if you upgrade to the complete diagnostic within 30 days.
Added in the full diagnostic
How well the current strategy supports your stated objectives, with evidence for each verdict.
Each of the six analysis areas judged on the evidence supplied.
How the sector is growing and the structural forces shaping it, when available.
How the company compares to named competitors and what that means, when available.
Value on the table that the current plan does not reach for.
What to do next, in order, with a concrete first step.
Stay course, adjust or redesign — stated plainly.
A working session with a Techboard executive to take the board through the findings.
2ndOpinion™ · Phase 1 Detect
Diagnostic scorecard
Client (anonymised) — extract from a released report.
Strategy quality
3/5
Execution risk
4/5
Value trend
Growth
Exhibit 1
Strategy quality plotted against execution risk
Exhibit 2
Where the six areas stand, scored 1–5
Exhibit 3
Revenue, investment and profit paired with their returns
Where this sits
Seven phases from diagnosis to measurable value. 2ndOpinion™ is phase one.
Signature products
Each product stands on its own and connects to the same framework, so a diagnosis can carry straight through to design, change and follow-through.
Is your strategy working?
An independent, evidence-led strategic reality check for owners, boards and CEOs. Your strategy, financial performance and operating model tested against your own goals, official sector data and peer performance.
From AI activity to enterprise value.
The cross-functional operating model that connects strategy, governance, execution and accountability so AI work turns into measurable enterprise value instead of scattered pilots.
From diagnostic insight to delivered value.
Hands-on advisory that takes you across the remaining stages of the framework: shaping your Value Growth Strategy, executing the Change Audit and transformation roadmap, and serving as an executive sounding board and transformation tracker through to stabilization.