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Maturity Stage Focus: Sustaining market leadership and optimizing profitability. Key Activities: At this stage, the business has reached a stable level of growth. Efforts are centered around maintaining market share, optimizing processes, and maximizing profitability. Challenges: Avoiding complacency, staying innovative, and addressing market saturation or emerging competition. . Renewal/Exit Stage Focus: Transforming or exiting the business. Key Activities: Businesses in this stage may seek to reinvent themselves through innovation or restructuring. Alternatively, they may prepare for an exit, such as selling the company, merging, or going public. Challenges: Successfully executing a transition or exit strategy, adapting to new market conditions, and continuing innovation #BusinessGrowth #Partnerships #StartupSuccess #ClientAcquisition #StrategicPlanning #MarketExpansion #NetworkingForSuccess #CorporateStrategy #BusinessInnovation #RevenueGrowth #GrowthHacking #ScalingBusiness #InnovationInBusiness

CEOs are looking to maintain or accelerate business transformation in 2024, with 58% aiming to speed up their plans. Despite a slow-growth environment, CEOs remain optimistic about their growth and profitability. AI is expected to play a key role in this transformation, with a focus on financial operations. Additionally, the outlook for mergers and acquisitions in 2024 is positive. #BusinessTransformation #AI #CEOAgenda #MergersAndAcquisitions

🚀 Case Study Spotlight: Strategic IT Transition Fuels Growth for Global Tech Company 🚀 A leading private equity firm recently acquired a global technology company with annual sales of $200 million and a workforce of 650, aiming to bolster its holdings in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. This strategic move required a complex separation of the company's IT operations from a larger manufacturing conglomerate. 🌐 From the beginning, Fortium Partners played a crucial role. Leveraging the expertise of their top fractional CIO, Fortium ensured a seamless transition of IT functions, establishing a robust foundation for sustained operational success and future growth. #Innovation #CEO #Technology #PrivateEquity #BusinessStrategy #CaseStudy #OperationalExcellence 📖 Learn more about how strategic technology leadership facilitated this significant transition and is driving forward the company's ambitions: https://lnkd.in/g4dAwhtc Discover the power of expert technology management in transformative business scenarios!

In our latest CEO Outlook edition, UK CEOs are clear about their priorities in 2024: organic and inorganic transformation is on the agenda:   🤝 90% of UK CEOs are actively pursuing a strategic transaction in the next 12 months, including M&A, divestments, IPOs and joint ventures 📊 56% of UK CEOs plan to accelerate portfolio transformation in the next 12 months 🤖51% of UK CEOs are prioritising their adoption of AI technologies to drive efficiencies and improve business performance Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gJX-qWkP #CEOs #BetterWorkingWorld

What does SCALE really mean? Simply put: Relative Market Share >1. We often hear the term "Scale advantage" usually referring to larger players in the market, but it's usually quite abstract. To put it simply, if the Relative Market Share of another player is greater than 1 compared to your company, they have SCALE over your company. But Scale comes with its pros and cons A company with Scale benefits from lower costs, stronger negotiation power, greater market influence amongst other advantages. This often translates into higher profitability and more resources to fuel growth and expansion. But on the flip side, with Scale comes reduction in agility. Larger companies tend to be slower in adapting to market changes or disruptions. The size that once worked as an advantage can turn into a burden, as decision-making becomes more bureaucratic and sluggish. While Scale is an indicator of past success, it is not always a predictor of future success. Moreover it can actually be a barrier for future innovation and success! Therefore, it is imperative that strategists think through on how to keep innovation agile in such companies. Often this happens via specialised projects or most likely via acquisitions (which most often fail, but more on that next time)!! #scaleispastsuccess #agilityorscale #businessstrategy #keepchurninginnovation

“Oh, wait a minute, I also have to grow.” When we say these things intellectually, it’s hard to absorb what it feels like when you’re somebody who has to actually navigate all of these things all at once. ... the two strategies that stand out the most. One is, how are you going about building a culture of growth, a mindset of growth, and a culture of innovation?" (ref: McKinsey) At Breakpoint Human Capital Management we are proud to be a trusted strategic partner to CEO's and their executive team building high performing organizations fueling competitive advantage across diverse industries, global operations and a full range of organization challenges, including start-ups, turnarounds, high growth, mergers and acquisitions or exit strategies. Wouldn’t you like to partner with someone who has been in your shoes? Please let us know how we can best help at michael@breakpointhcm.com And if you’d prefer, you’re always welcome to call 416.209.8776 Breakpoint Human Capital Management For the people™ #change #people #nosurprises #strategy #growth #humancapital #leadership #entrepreneurship #culture #businesswithpurpose #forthepeople

🔄 Transforming behavior is one thing, but transforming mindsets is where real change happens. In an excerpt from our Market Study: AI & the Future of Work, Founder and CEO of Strategia Analytics Inc. Dr. Miles Overholt and Steven Steckler, Strategic Advisor, emphasize a critical aspect of change management: true success isn’t just about changing systems or processes—it requires a fundamental shift in how people think. As they put it, “Second-order change requires time and patience, something rarely accounted for in acquisitions, mergers, or transformations. In other words, what is needed is to help employees not just to behave differently, but to think differently—to adopt a new perspective.” 💡 At the heart of transformation is the mindset shift. It’s time to think differently, empower your teams, and lead your organization into the future. Download the full report to see how organizations can thrive by aligning people, processes, and new perspectives. https://lnkd.in/gsbfcWHJ #ChangeManagement #OrganizationalTransformation #PeopleAnalytics #FutureOfWork #AFWMS

"As leaders struggle to create organic growth, they are turning to an old strategy: buying it. Both public companies and private equity firms have returned to dealmaking in a big way to start the year, with major mergers or acquisitions taking place across industries. ... Worldwide M&A activity grew 56% through February to $453 billion. Still, critics say dealmaking isn’t going to solve firms’ long-term challenge of finding organic growth. Overall, top-line growth is stagnating: According to FactSet data, S&P 500 companies grew their revenue by 4.0% in the most recent quarter, which is significantly below the 5-year average of 6.9% and the 10-year average of 5%. ... companies have gotten rid of a lot of creative, innovative talent. Moreover, after watching thousands of their colleagues walk out the door despite strong company performance, those who remain are so worried about getting fired that they have become risk averse. “Firms need agitators to grow organically,” ... “The fact that they are buying growth is a red flag that they can’t develop it internally.” (ref: Korn Ferry) As a strategic partner to the CEO and the executive team our experience with people spans diverse industries, global operations and a full range of organization challenges, including start-ups, turnarounds, high growth, mergers and acquisitions or exit strategies. At Breakpoint Human Capital Management we understand that the difference between success and failure is people. Wouldn’t you like to partner with someone who has been in your shoes? Please let us know how we can best help at michael@breakpointhcm.com And if you’d prefer, you’re always welcome to call 416.209.8776 Breakpoint Human Capital Management For the people™ #change #people #nosurprises #strategy #growth #humancapital #leadership #entrepreneurship #culture #businesswithpurpose #forthepeople

To successfully embrace and leverage AI thorough change management is needed. Strategia Analytics Inc. developed a powerful framework for assessing a companies’ true DNA and get everyone on board tackling the changes needed to stay ahead of the game. Check out their amazing article

🚀 Unlock Operational Mastery in PE-Funded Firms! 🌟 Discover the Secrets to Skyrocketing Success 📈 Let's dive into a crucial trend in private equity for 2024: The increasing operational focus in PE-funded companies. In this dynamic era, PE-funded companies are pivoting towards a stronger operational focus. CFOs and COOs are becoming linchpins in the fabric of these businesses, especially in companies involved in mergers and acquisitions. Why this shift? Because operational efficiency is key. In companies with an investment thesis involving M&A, rapid and effective integration of acquired entities is crucial. It's about creating an efficient platform for growth in an improving economy. This trend isn't just a phase; it's a strategic necessity. CFOs and COOs in PE-funded companies are no longer just number-crunchers or process overseers. They're architects of growth, driving operational excellence and integration. As we move forward, the emphasis on operational roles in PE-funded companies is more pronounced than ever. Is your firm poised & prepared to find the operational leaders who will be pivotal in navigating and capitalizing on this trend? #OperationalExcellence #PEFundedGrowth #BusinessRevolution