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A unique capability optimised to smash the venture-killers and capture the opportunities that don't match your venture's org chart

 

COHEZHION unlocks value, solving complex and difficult problems that slow progress, destroy value and kill projects


With more than thirty years of international project experience, COHEZHION has delivered everything from successful multi-billion dollar fiscal campaigns to successful world record attempts. Every image on this site is drawn from real projects


Quote"I call COHEZHION when something important isn't moving the way it should"

 

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Solving Project Challenges

Of all the project and venture risks, the most dangerous are the hidden dependencies and the ones that no-one fully appreciates or owns.  These risks either don't align with corporate functions or, if they do, they can't be solved using that function's skillsets alone. These risks live and grow in the corporate gaps. COHEZHION fills those gaps.


Answers That Work

From re-negotiating critical contracts in hostile environments to building support for transformational technologies, COHEZHION delivers focused solutions for high-stakes situations and the issues that matter to you.


The answer may be as conventional as doing the corporate communications basics or as unconventional as a World Record attempt or a trans-Africa expedition - the test is whatever works and one of COHEZHION's great strengths is the range of that whatever.


 .Quote"Ventures fail technically less often than people think. They fail emotionally more often than people notice"

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WHAT COHEZHION CAN DO FOR YOU


COHEZHION helps organisations identify problems, develop and implement solutions, align stakeholders, influence outcomes, shape the commercial environment  and keep ventures moving forward. It has extensive experience of new technology start-ups, dynamic change programmes and market disruptors.


The solution can be anything from a one-off review of project structure and assumptions to a long-term assignment providing full support. Achieving your objectives might involve a world record attempt or a global media spectacular but it might equally demand a mundane but critical revision of process in the non-technical risk space. Some solutions are more fun than others, all are necessary.


COHEZHION's portfolio looks eclectic because of the project range. The method is consistent. Whether the challenge involves preventing a multi-billion-dollar government tax raid, co-ordinating a major pan-industry change programme, explaining new technology to a sceptical public or managing the commercial fall-out from a high-profile murder, COHEZHION applies the same approach: understand the problem; identify the leverage and pivot points; develop and implement a workable, ethical and cost-effective solution. The approach is particularly sensitive to human factors and it works.


Listed below are five general categories of challenge designed to summarize COHEZHION's thinking, capabilities and approach. The categories are not exhaustive - they are conversation starters. The Solutions section does not specifically address being the subject of multiple senate enquiries or what to do when a key investor makes a credible threat to break the CEO's legs - though both problems have found their way onto the 'to do' list before now.


To start the conversation, please e mail:  contact@cohezhion.com 

 THE COHEZHION METHOD - If it can be imagined and organised, it is deliverable


UNDERSTAND the problem/opportunity, the underlying forces driving it and the motivation of the significant participants

IMAGINE the solution that would direct the underlying forces in a productive direction and create alignment among everyone involved

ORGANISE that solution and take it from an abstract idea to a practical plan of action

DELIVER that plan with confidence


Quote "High-risk operational execution is a transferable capability. If you understand how organisations and governments work and can safely deliver something genuinely difficult, uncertain and high-consequence, the underlying operating system transfers across domains."



SOLUTIONS - practical answers to maintain momentum, alignment & commitment

 

The COHEZHION portfolio is probably best known for Bryan Habana racing cheetahs but the deliverable of most consequence was ending a series of fatal incidents with an effective media management strategy.


Many project failures involve technical teams trying to impose technical solutions on non-technical problems. A project is a journey with change as the objective. If you understand why everyone's on that journey and the change they expect at the end of it, you can manage those expectations, anticipate points of friction and bring everyone with you, whatever the sector and whatever the project involves.


Project fatigue is a real thing and few projects survive stakeholder exhaustion. If projects are a combination of technical and emotional, the technical gets the project going and the emotional sustains it through the highs and lows.


COHEZHION's offering in this space centres on two objectives: solving the day-to-day and managing the deeper dynamics which keep key enablers motivated, aligned and energised.



ARTICULATION - understand, communicate and exploit the full spectrum of value effectively 


Everything on this site has depended on understanding that value is different for everyone involved. That's where the breakthroughs that make the numbers work come from, particularly with new technologies.


What you measure in dollars, others measure in effect.


That value isn't captured on a spreadsheet.

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FINANCE - build and maintain the confidence to get funded, stay funded and get more funds if needed


Money follows confidence. The numbers are a matter for the CFO, COHEZHION manages the confidence. 


That confidence decides what the money does in the face of your commercial realities.



POSITIONING - get your organisation where it needs to be to achieve what it's trying to do


A ruthlessly acccurate appreciation of what's needed, defined by commercial drivers not corporate ego, and combined with the fearless optimisation of every resource at your disposal to make it happen. That's how you do positioning.


The expedition photos on this site are not just pretty pictures of Africa, they were taken on a highly successful project to match a far larger and richer competitor who repeatedly wowed the sector by winning Le Mans.


When you can't buy your way to where you need to be, imagination and capability make up a lot of ground.



AMPLIFIER - enhance the focus, capacity and range of your core team

 

It isn't the decision to write to a head of state that takes up a CEO's time, it's getting the words right. The Chief Legal Officer who can delegate style and tone is able to fully focus on the law. The best use of the Chief Financial Officer's time is not wrestling with presentations and messaging. The gifted Chief Technical Officer is not necessarily a gifted communicator.

COHEZHION's capabiility is the corporate brake that lets the team go faster, allowing your expensive professionals to focus their time and ability where they deliver greatest value.   

Contact:        contact@cohezhion.com


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