Business Failure Analysis That Buys You Time Before Cash Runs Out

Who This Is For

• You feel cash pressure from banks, suppliers, or payroll and don’t see a clear way out.

• You’re firefighting daily issues while margin and cash quietly deteriorate.

• You have multiple “recovery projects” but no single, concrete turnaround plan.

• You worry that one more bad quarter could trigger bank action, investor pressure, or owner conflict.

What You Get From Our Failure Analysis Work

• A brutal, fact-based picture of where your business is actually failing – not just symptoms.

• A quantified view of the financial damage: cash, margin, and capacity impact from the top causes.

• A prioritized 90-day survival plan with specific actions, owners, and dates.

• A simple early-warning system so you don’t get surprised by the same problems again.

You don’t just get a diagnosis. You leave with a survival plan, working tools, and a clear owner’s view of what must change in the next 90 days.

Our Business Failure Solutions

BFA-01 – 90-Day Survival Sprint

Purpose

Stop the bleeding fast and buy time to stabilize cash and operations.

Typical problems we see

• “We’re always short on cash but can’t see exactly why.”

• “Sales are okay, but profit and cash keep getting worse.”

• “We react to every crisis; nothing feels under control.”

What we do

1. Run a structured diagnostic using your 100 Causes of Business Failure library.

2. Map findings to cash, margin, and capacity – not just qualitative issues.

3. Quantify the impact of the top 10–15 causes (SAR, % margin, capacity loss).

4. Prioritize fixes using a simple scoring: impact, speed, and feasibility.

5. Build a 90-day survival plan with weekly actions and accountabilities.

Tangible outputs

• A Failure Heatmap highlighting the most critical causes by impact.

• A 1-page Owner Survival Dashboard with the key metrics to watch.

• A detailed 90-Day Action Plan (who does what, by when, and expected impact).

• A short Board / Bank update pack you can use to show control and progress.

BFA-02 – Failure Early-Warning Radar

Purpose

Detect failure patterns months before they hit your P&L and cash.

Typical problems we see

• Surprises: “We didn’t see this loss coming.”

• Management reports focus on history, not early signs of trouble.

• Risks are discussed in meetings but not tracked in one coherent place.

What we do

• Translate the most relevant failure causes into measurable risk indicators.

• Build a Failure Risk Register with probability, impact, and owners.

• Design a simple FEWS (Failure Early-Warning System) with traffic lights.

• Integrate risk signals with your existing KPIs (cash, margin, CCC, backlog).

• Set a monthly review rhythm and escalation rules for red items.

Tangible outputs

• A working Failure Risk Register in Sheets/Excel.

• A FEWS dashboard with red/amber/green indicators tied to your numbers.

• Templates for monthly risk review meetings with owners / board.

• Clear rules for when a risk becomes a project, not just a discussion item.

BFA-03 – Turnaround Readiness & Governance

Purpose

Make your leadership team and governance structure capable of handling crisis and recovery.

Typical problems we see

• Owners and managers don’t share the same picture of reality.

• Turnaround projects start with energy but fade after a few months.

• Boards or investors don’t receive the right information to support decisions.

What we do

• Assess decision-making, accountability, and reporting against your failure patterns.

• Identify gaps in roles, controls, and escalation routes.

• Define a Turnaround Governance Framework – who decides what, and how.

• Design simple, repeatable reporting packs for owners, boards, and banks.

• Coach leadership on how to run crisis reviews and turnaround stand-ups.

Tangible outputs

• A Turnaround Governance Map: roles, responsibilities, and decision rights.

• Standard owner / board packs focused on cash, margin, and failure risks.

• A practical meeting rhythm for weekly survival reviews and monthly oversight.

Whether you use one solution or all three, we follow a disciplined method:

• Clarify the true problem
  We separate symptoms (“sales are down”, “cash is tight”) from root failure causes.

• Map the economics of failure
  We link each issue to cash, margin, capacity, and risk so you see the real cost.

• Diagnose patterns using the 100 Causes library
  We classify failure patterns and score them for impact and urgency.

• Design the survival and stabilization plan
  We prioritize actions that stop the bleeding first, then stabilize operations.

• Implement and transfer
  We set up dashboards, risk registers, and review rhythms so your team can run the system without us.

How Our Failure Method Works

Why Work With 3Ms Business Instead of a Big Firm?

• Failure is our starting point, not an afterthought
  We don’t hide problems under strategy buzzwords. We confront failure patterns directly using a structured library of 100 real-world causes.

• GCC operational reality built-in
  We factor in Saudization, ZATCA, visas, EOSB, housing, and local payment habits – not just generic textbook ratios.

• Execution-first
  You don’t get a 100-page deck. You get survival dashboards, risk registers, action trackers, and meeting rhythms your team can actually run.

• Direct access to the consultant
  No junior teams rotating every month. You work directly with a consultant who’s lived costing, pricing, and turnaround issues for 20+ years.

Engagement Options

• Failure Health Check – 2–3 weeks
  High-level review of financials, operations, and key failure indicators. Identifies the top 8–10 causes and their likely financial impact.

• 90-Day Survival Sprint – 6–8 weeks
  Deep diagnostic using the 100 Causes library, quantified impact, and a complete 90-day survival action plan with dashboards and trackers.

• Failure Early-Warning System – 8–10 weeks
  Builds the FEWS dashboard, risk register, governance, and monthly reporting so you can see failure risks 6–12 months earlier.

Final CTA

Ready to Stop Failure Before It Becomes Final?

Share basic financials and a short description of your situation, and we’ll show you where failure is already forming in your business and what a 90-day survival sprint could look like in your case.