Growth strategy

Growth is usually one of the top agenda items for CEOs. Companies are targeting aggressive growth strategies in response to structural shifts caused by new technologies, changing regulations, evolving customer needs and sector convergence.

However, realising growth is extremely challenging – with the majority of organisations unable to achieve and/or sustain their growth ambitions.

Client challenges and how we can help

Experience suggests that this may be the result of:

Unrealistic growth objectives driving an undeliverable strategy
A failure to consider implementation capabilities and bandwidth to execute
Leadership team misalignment
Lack of stakeholder support
An inability to evolve and innovate in response to changing market and customer requirements

The Global Strategy Group’s (GSG) approach to driving step-change growth and top-quartile performance addresses issues such as:

How to access new and unmet revenue and profit pools?
How to profitably enter new markets and segments in a short timeframe?
How to develop and commercialize innovative products in order to grow?
How to attract new customers and enhance loyalty?

Our services

Our approach

GSG’s approach is based on identifying and implementing a prioritised set of growth platforms that will enable clients to achieve their growth ambitions.

This distinctive approach, underpinned by the 9 Levers of Value, is designed to bring benefits for clients:

Connects related opportunities, driving internal collaboration and efficiency
Builds up insight and enables scaled investment over time, as one opportunity leads to another
Provides multiple routes to achieve targets and mitigates risk of setbacks with diversified portfolios of opportunities – if one idea falters, the platform remains strong
Provides a realistic plan, accounting for the required talent and skillsets, time horizons and appetite for risk
Enables sustained growth by institutionalizing growth as a capability in the company’s DNA
Sets up ongoing management of new growth opportunities as a portfolio of investments with specific metrics to maintain momentum and progress

The following case examples demonstrate how GSG’s growth platforms approach has been successfully applied to client issues.

Read our case studies

Helping a global oil and gas major disrupt its market

The automotive lubrication division of a large global oil and gas major had invented and patented a new and revolutionary lubrication technology, which promised to disrupt the market.

GSG professionals assisted in developing the go-to-market strategy, value based pricing and operating model for a game changing business built around the new technology.

Charting double digit growth in China for underperforming company

A multinational player in the industrial sector was having growth challenges in its Chinese operations. GSG professionals helped the company to chart double digit profitable growth by adopting a customer centric business model and retooling operations.

Get in touch

To find out more about how our Growth Strategy team can help you with what’s next for your business, please get in touch. We’d be delighted to hear from you.