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Practice 06

Growth & transformation

When growth stalls or doubles too fast: commercial diagnostics, pricing architecture and operating model redesign.

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Diagnosing a stall honestly
Diagnosing a stall honestly

Diagnosing a stall honestly

Stalls are rarely mysterious. Price is below value, the channel is tired, or the product has drifted from the segments that pay. Our commercial diagnostic reads win/loss data, cohort margins and the sales calendar to find which of the three it is — usually within four weeks, because the evidence already exists inside the business.

The output is a sequencing decision, not a programme charter: what to fix this quarter with existing people, and what genuinely needs new capability before it can be attempted.

  • Commercial diagnostics for stalled or plateaued growth
  • Pricing architecture rebuilds — the fastest capital in the mid-market
  • Operating model redesign for companies doubling headcount

Transforming without funding two models at once

Transformations bankrupt mid-market companies when they run the old model and the new one in parallel for a year. We sequence instead: migrate by customer segment, product line or region — deliberately, with cutover dates and a rollback path — so the business never pays for two of everything.

Our advisors lead the first two quarters alongside your people, then hand over a running system with internal owners. The measure of success is that the machine works when we have gone.

Common questions

Growth & transformation — what boards ask

If your question is not here, ask it directly — the first conversation is free and candid.

Common questions

Why start with pricing?
Because it is the fastest capital in the mid-market. A disciplined rebuild — value-based tiers, discount governance, contract hygiene — typically moves revenue two to five per cent inside two quarters with no new products and no new headcount.
Can you work with our existing transformation office?
Yes. Sometimes we run it; more often we sit beside the internal lead as the independent challenge — the person whose job is to ask what the plan quietly assumes.
How do you avoid the 70% failure rate we keep reading about?
Sequencing and honesty. Parallel-run everything and you will fail expensively; migrate segment by segment with dates and rollback paths and the odds move with you. We also scope the first two quarters only — transformation charters that promise three years are fiction.
What does it cost the business beyond your fees?
The plan states the incremental operating cost explicitly per quarter. If the board cannot fund the sequence, the scope shrinks to match the funding — that decision is made before work starts, not in month nine.
Next step

Bring us the decision, not the brief

The most useful first conversation starts with the decision the board cannot close. We will tell you within the hour whether we are the right firm for it.

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