managing for value

How much more could your company be worth?

We believe that all companies have an enormous potential to increase the intrinsic value of their businesses – generally much greater than management believes or expects. Achieving consistently superior value growth is the single achievement that most clearly distinguishes great companies from all others. It is the hallmark of exceptional leaders.

Many of the most successful leaders in value growth believe that value is something that can be explicitly managed, and doing so greatly increases a company’s performance potential. Managing for value involves a systematic organizational focus on growing intrinsic value. It requires a fresh look at what each business and function does to unlock new sources of value growth. It involves an integrative perspective – joining strategic, organizational and economic disciplines. It requires tailored approaches and solutions to company-specific needs and opportunities. And it typically results in change along multiple dimensions, including what goals the company aspires to, the strategies it follows, the priorities it sets, the way performance is measured and rewarded, how leaders are assessed and developed, how resources are approved and deployed, and how decisions are made and executed.

We are the world’s leading advisors on helping companies manage for value – in fact, we coined the term. The benefits of our approach include:

• Broad and deep change to the organization’s focus on value creation, what drives it and how to influence it
• Leadership alignment around a common performance ambition and the actions required to realize it
• New information and insights into where value is created and destroyed across the portfolio and within each business
• Breakthrough performance improvement through the identification of new opportunities to grow value and the development of actionable strategies to capitalize on each opportunity
• More value-minded general managers with the capabilities and mindset to help the company exceed performance expectations year after year
• Large-scale transformation of a company’s ability to achieve higher levels of growth and profitability