Posts Tagged ‘growth strategy’
3 Signs Your Customers Don’t Get It
Value Drift could be killing your sales. Here are the warning signs. Whether you are responsible for your company’s overall growth strategy, or are a salesperson with a quota, it’s crazy-making when customers don’t “get” the value of your amazing offering. If you are confident that your B2B product or service creates significant business value…
Read More 3 Plays from the Private Equity Playbook —
and what they teach us all about Value Creation
Private equity (PE) firms have become expert at creating shareholder value because their fundamental business is to buy companies, improve their value, and then sell them for a solid return. As an industry, they have had a lot of practice at it. Currently, there are about 7500 U.S. companies owned by private equity, and over…
Read More“Growth” is Not a Strategy
“Our strategy is to achieve double-digit revenue growth year-over-year.” Whenever I see something like that on a corporate strategy or mission statement, I want to say, “For your sake, I hope not! What you have there is a desired outcome. Growth is not a strategy.” Don’t get me wrong; growth is important – very important. …
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