Portfolio redesign: Mapping value growth in complex portfolios

As companies have grown in size and complexity, delivering sustained superior performance has become increasingly challenging. Today’s large corporations compete across multiple product and service markets, value chains, and geographies – each of which is experiencing major shifts in economics and opportunities.

The typical approaches to charting portfolio strategy are no longer adequate. Neither the “hands-off” financial manager focusing on the numbers nor the synergy manager … [ Read more ]

Strategic Planning Redux

Strategic planning at many large companies is a sterile annual exercise that managers endure. They’re often asked to produce either a shining vision or financial certainty, or both. But with growth back on the agenda, a few leading companies are creating value through strategic managing, which connects strategy to the front lines and to market opportunities as they unfold.