Strategy: Seeing the Big Picture

Strategy: Seeing the Big Picture

Strategy is about looking beyond the immediate to do list or this quarter’s financial plan and seeing the whole picture and the way things really are, not the way you’d like them to be. Seeing the big picture is critical in creating successful strategy and probably...
Beating the odds

Beating the odds

A portfolio company focuses on its capabilities to see further ahead. An exhaustive search for prospective acquisitions in the core market with the intention of growing scale had proved unsuccessful and distracting. The legacy from a previous senior management team...
When No. 3 finds an edge

When No. 3 finds an edge

A European-wide automotive fuel card operator found the edge through an innovative on-line fuel-card account management system, but nearly didn’t. A major player in the European fuel card sector was struggling to attract and retain users of its new on-line system in...
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