Overview
Aside from the lack of sales and poor capital allocation, businesses fail because of stagnation more than anything else. Thus, business development means business improvement. To that note, these are the core areas that we believe every business should regularly attempt to improve.
Strategy
Path to success; the blueprint for achieving long-term goals. It outlines your market positioning, growth plan, and resources. The integrated set of actions an organization takes to achieve its goals. At a base level, it’s the art and science of allocating resources. We help members develop and implement winning strategies to drive growth and efficiency.
Innovation
Creating new ideas to boost efficiency and growth. It covers product, process, organizational, and marketing aspects. Innovation could mean creating entirely new industries or simply iterating new advancements on your existing model. We help members improve business results through new ideas in products, services, processes, and models.
Operations
The daily activities that keep a company running. It includes product creation, service delivery, and customer management. Successful companies build repeatable models around core offerings, focusing on attaining full potential. We help blend strategic thinking with proven insights and operational practicality to solve virtually any challenge.
Organization
The structure of roles, responsibilities, and relationships. It shapes how tasks are performed and goals are achieved. Despite the rise of technology, businesses still compete through talent. Turning foresight into key social, demographic, regulatory, and digital trends, we help members shape an explicit workforce strategy while improving productivity.
Technology
A catalyst for efficiency and innovation. It enhances productivity, improves customer service, and drives growth. Today every industry has been reshaped by technology, and many that soon will be again. We help members achieve goals through proper technology spending and integration, management, and engagement.
Branding
The process of creating and building a brand. Marketing creates awareness and demand; sales convert these into revenue and profits; service helps the cycle repeat more effectively. By defining the benefits and experiences that make brands relevant, credible, and distinctive, we help members develop and implement strategies that drive superior positioning in both local and global markets.
Finance
Managing a company’s money; from budgeting, forecasting, investing, and risk management to ensure financial health. Organizations looking to generate consistent ROI recognize the importance of finance in managing costs while finding ways to improve value. We help members through insights and solutions that guide financial strategies and capital allocation.
Risk
Potential events that may negatively impact operations or profits. Identifying and managing risks is key to sustainability. Our team uses risk-adjusted performance methods and tools to help companies gain higher economic returns and increase customer and shareholder confidence by protecting against the adverse impacts and potential business disruption.
Market Snapshot
We help members create or modify their own playbook around the specific requirements of their own business and industry, adding or enhancing a powerful tool for driving performance, growth, and development. You already know what you’re up against. Here are some current market stats.
$18 trillion
The 500 largest companies represent two-thirds of the US GDP, accounting for more than $1.1 trillion in profits, and they’re looking for more.
73 million
Freelancers make up nearly 50% of the US workforce, contributing an estimated $1 trillion in personal earnings, and they want more too.
+5 million
New companies are created every day to solve problems that you’re not. These startups want to take your market share and more than 5 million were opened up in 2022 alone.
Cycle of Capital
Regardless of market position, even dominant companies fail because they don’t improve and pivot over time and north of 50% of startups vanish before their 5th year anniversary.