The Growth Pipeline Diagnostic™ provides a first level diagnosis of your relative strengths and weaknesses regarding core aspects of your growth potential.

This Growth Pipeline Diagnostic™ will provide you with a benchmark on how well your company is prepared to grow in the future. The ten questions are based on best practices of the top 10% of companies that consistently achieve their growth potential.

Included are two sections on critical perspectives on growth and innovation. In less than 15 minutes, you will be provided insight to more accurately assess your company.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, and Leadership team in alignment on why growth is increasingly challenging to achieve.

The strategic Imperatives have been analyzed, prioritized, and strategies have been developed to address the impact.

Time and resources are invested monthly to understand these imperatives.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

A full range of visionary scenarios is developed to prepare the company for an unpredictable future.

There is a strong level of curiosity and open innovation to drive this process.

Each quarter, the growth team invests at least one full day to evaluate the leverage and efficacy of the growth pipeline™ process.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The team invests time and resources each quarter to drive the innovation process.

The innovation process integrates all sources of growth ideas, including Research & Development, Sales, Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnering, Geographic Expansion, Technology, etc.

A digital platform is leveraged to capture and track all growth opportunities identified.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and the Leadership team are aligned in understanding the key challenges in driving continuous growth.

The executive team is highly collaborative and functions as a real team at every stage of the growth pipeline process.

The CEO’s growth team is inclusive in leveraging all the essential sources of growth opportunities.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

We prioritize communicating our plan so that the entire organization is involved in the design and success of our growth plans.

Multiple communications channels are being leveraged to educate the staff about the growth plans of the organization

We have a process to confirm that the employees understand and support the growth vision and prioritized growth opportunities.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The analysis process includes multiple sources of data, both qualitative and quantitative, to assess each growth opportunity.

Investment in capital and time is provided to take the measurements on each growth opportunity.

The team has designed and agreed upon the measurement tools used to measure and prioritize each growth opportunity.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The growth pipeline™ system integrates all sources and categories of growth opportunities.

The system is transparent and provides access to all of those involved, including the Board of Directors and investors.

The growth pipeline™ system is reviewed monthly and is under constant development.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The strategy development process includes clear goal setting and a well-defined path on how to get there.

Time and resources are invested each month to create the most effective go-to-market strategies.

KPIs drive the strategic planning process; they determine the success of each strategic plan.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The team has clear planning and implementation of best practice tools.

Investment in time and capital is made to meet any need for agility or change in the implementation process.

Builds staff capabilities and culture in agile development and operations with training and incentives.

BEST PRACTICE BENCHMARKS:

The KPIs established represent a reflection of where the growth opportunity is versus the strategy and implementation plan.

We invest sufficient time to ensure that our growth opportunities are on track.

The investment in time and capital is made to monitor all growth opportunities.

These final questions will be kept anonymous and allow us to segment our analysis by industry, organization size and other important variables to improve overall results.