The takeover does not require an acquisition. It happens when a legitimate mandate reasserts control over an organisation captured by its own managers, committees, customs and protected interests.
When it is required
An internal takeover may be required when the board cannot convert ownership or strategy into action. When management layers preserve themselves by controlling information and delay. When responsibility has been distributed beyond recognition. When a transformation programme is managed by the people and structures it must replace. When capital is being destroyed while internal stakeholders remain protected. When leadership knows what must change but cannot act through the system it inherited.
What we do
We help the mandate take over the company. That may require new decision rights, new leadership, removal of roles, collapse of layers, separation of functions, redeployment of assets, changed incentives or complete reconstruction of parts of the organisation.
Hostility here is not theatre. It means the intervention is not conditional on the consent of every role, layer or internal coalition whose position depends on the current disorder.
The end state
The purpose is not perpetual transformation. It is an organisation with clear territory, authority located near knowledge, incentives connected to consequence — and the internal capability to identify and remove new forms of rot without us.