Our Approach To Scaling Your Business

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A Holistic Approach

To meet the challenge of how to scale within the current market and competitive challenges, we have developed a Framework for Strategic Growth that is designed with the following objectives in mind:

  • 1 Shift from an exclusively reactionary opportunity identification mode into one that introduces strategic account coverage and proactive selling.
  • 2 Improve proposal quality and opportunity closure rates.
  • 3 Ensure that offerings/services are aligned with current and emerging market need; and that a set of “strategic” offerings are identified and supported.
  • 4 Maximize partnership opportunities across the sales, offering, and delivery ecosystems. This includes channels, solutions partners, and industry professional organizations.
  • 5 Increase brand recognition through a structured marketing and eminence campaign leveraging traditional channels as well as social media.
  • 6 Identify inorganic growth opportunities.
A strategic growth framework with six key focus areas arranged in a hexagon.

Market Management

Includes the sub-elements of Account Management, Market Segmentation and Prioritization, Alliances and Channels. The key objectives of Market Management are:

  • Optimize coverage and client/prospect relationships;
  • Focus coverage on the highest value clients and prospects;
  • Create new sources of opportunities;
  • Promote earlier identification of opportunities
  • Promote earlier identification of client challenges and needs.

Opportunity Management

Includes how opportunities are sourced, validated, reviewed, and responded to. The key objectives of Opportunity Management are:

  • Improve win/capture rates;
  • Introduce a strategic view to bid/no-bid decisions;
  • Improve ability to pursue larger opportunities.

Offerings Portfolio Management

Includes ensuring that the focus solutions/offerings are aligned to market needs. Within the entire existing portfolio of offerings, a subset of “focus” offerings are identified with will drive much of the proactive marketing and business development efforts. Key objectives of Offerings Portfolio Management are:

  • Bring to market capabilities and offerings that are better aligned to client need;
  • Achieve a "first mover" position with emerging market needs and challenges;
  • Introduce a subset of industry-wide offerings, with investment, that accounts can sell.

Marketing and Eminence

Includes leveraging multiple branding and awareness channels as well as establishing the eminence of key firm leaders and subject experts. The key objectives of Marketing and Eminence are:

  • Optimize allocation of marketing and branding $;
  • Develop new opportunity sources;
  • Establish the firm, and individuals, as experts in specific areas

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships

Includes the identification and evaluation of inorganic growth opportunities. The key Objectives of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships are:

  • Source potential candidates;
  • Extend the firm's capabilities and offerings portfolios;
  • Enter new sub-markets while strengthening presence in existing ones

What’s key to understand about the Strategic Growth Framework is that while it was designed to be used to develop a comprehensive market-driven strategy, individual components can be executed on, in modular fashion, to address acute issues in specific areas. For example, The Opportunity Management element has been deployed, individually, to assist with crafting a new process geared towards significant opportunities (versus “typical” ones that might enter the pipeline).

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