Business | Growth | Innovation
If you are looking for exponential business growth, then we would welcome the opportunity to invite you to a strategy discussion to discuss your challenges so that you can push through to the next level.
INNOVATION CASE STUDIES
WHY BUSINESS GROWTH?
We all know that growth is crucial for long-term business survival
Greater economies of scale reduces your costs which helps reduce the threat of competition and market downturns. Ultimately, market dominance will strengthen your brand and credibility.
Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian economist, observed that: “success breeds success!” or put simply:
- The tallest tree in the forest will get all the light and grow disproportionately taller
- The heaviest star will have the greatest gravity and attract all the other stars thereby getting bigger
- The biggest celebrity will attract all the fans
- The largest business in a market will attract all the customers, talent, and make most of the money
The Pareto distribution is an exponential curve where the top 20% do better than the lower 80% put together and being exponential, this pattern repeats fractally within the top 20% and so on.
However, even more important, is the retention of your best staff. A growing business provides headroom for staff growth and career advancement. In a stagnant business you will lose your best staff, expertise, and know-how to your competitors. Even if the business has comfortable earnings.
Growth is Hard
So why doesn’t every business grow? Well, growth is hard.
- Have you mastered the latest technology?
- Are your competitors snapping at your heels?
- Have you outgrown your buildings or systems?
- Are you managing the necessary transformations to punch through to the next level?
- Are you keeping up with regulation?
- Are your processes rigid, functional with change only happening due to top-down command and control?
If you are not keeping up, then an agile competitor is probably going to bring you down. Richard Foster from the Yale School of Management shows that the average lifespan of a Standard & Poor company has fallen from 67 years in the 1920s to just 15 years today.
You have to learn, decide, and act faster than your competitors. Key for unlocking company growth success is down to the way that you manage your people. You need smart teams that can self-organise and build growth without you. A kind of growing fractal pattern that maintains speed and structure no matter how fast the growth.
As a leader, you need to seed this process and ensure that the sum of all these activities is aligned. I am not going to pretend that it’s easy. Each team needs common purpose, humility to listen to the market, creativity to surprise, discipline to delight and leadership to replicate new teams. We call this your growth DNA.
Entrepreneur growth journey needs expertise, resources, and talent to manage each stage of transition – most fail, (Churchill and Lewis, Harvard Business Review)
Success is naturally exponential, but linearity is imposed by limitations of the founder, managing small and not keeping up with the needs of the business. As a company evolves through each stage, it is critical for the owner to know when to give up control and delegate (not abdicate) their responsibilities to the team who in turn also become entrepreneurs to grow their own positions, and so on... You need the right DNA to maintain growth and quality.
The Challenge
Current sources of management advice are of questionable benefit. Sending your staff back to college for training takes too long and the bumpy journey damages confidence. Freelancers traditionally have variable quality, short-termism, and no skin in the game.
And so, you get stuck with the consulting industry that has become part of the problem. There is a conflict of interest, and they use your problems to “land and expand”. How will inexperienced staff with a “one-size fits all” approach help catalyse your transformation in a way that leaves you self-sufficient?
Our Focus
We created Mindsheet to help support leaders and entrepreneurs transition through the key growth stages outlined above in order to help fulfill your business potential. Our core purpose is to align your company DNA for growth by focusing on 4 horizons:
We are not just another Consulting Firm...
Our difference is that we put you in control of every stage of transformation. You lead the project and outcomes, but you can augment any shortfalls with a blend of the following services:
What Next?
If you are looking for exponential business growth, then we would welcome the opportunity to participate in a strategy discussion about your growth challenges. There is no commitment on your part to buy our services and this is not a thinly disguised sales pitch.
To book a free appointment to help map your business growth journey, please click on the button below.
Success Stories
Restructuring our Engineering Centres
Mindsheet helped us develop a very compelling and innovative solution to address our ballooning technical support costs
Consulting Service
Mindsheet’s knowledge, credibility, creativity, and contacts greatly enhanced our competitor benchmarking study which helped us secure and deliver a large contract. I look forward to engaging their services again.
Developing Brand Protection Intellectual Property for Scotland
Excellent focus on delivery, excellent range of technical skills and expertise, grown to meet programme needs, outstanding innovation. Gaining access to key market sector stakeholders to steer programme.
Strategy Insight
Raglan at Mindsheet is incredibly creative and has boundless energy. He enables strategic insight and helps customers translate this into pragmatic steps to change operations and performance.
Digital Security and Brand Protection
Mindsheet were called in to supplement our knowledge of a business opportunity that we were developing. They rapidly assimilated the key strategic issues around the market and our capabilities. In a very short time, they confirmed our strategy and identified practical steps for exploiting the opportunity. We were impressed at their speed, use of strategy structuring tools, and market knowledge.
Great Training
I attended a seminar put on by Raglan Tribe and Mark Edmunds and it was an excellent, informative, and very interesting experience. I have had dealings with both Mark and Raglan on several occasions and I have always been highly impressed with the level of service provided. Highly recommended.
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Contact Information
Langstone Tecnology Park
Find us here: Mindsheet Ltd.
Langstone Technology Park,
Langstone Rd. Havant, PO9 1SA
Email: info@mindsheet.com
Phone: +44 (0) 2392 413 771