The business Blueprint

Decision Friction: The Hidden Operating Cost Slowing Down Your Business

How to Know When Your Core Business Can No Longer Support Your Growth Goals

From Firefighting to Growth System: How Small Teams Create More Leverage

The Choice Stack: A Better Way to Clarify Where to Play and How to Win

How Jobs to Be Done Helps Leaders Find Better Growth Opportunities

Integration Velocity: The Overlooked Metric That Makes or Breaks M&A Value

How to Balance Core Growth, Adjacencies, and Disruptive Bets

Why Leadership Bottlenecks Kill Growth and How to Remove Them

Building a Repeatable Growth Playbook for the Next Generation of Leaders

M&A for Growth: Why Serial Acquirers Need a Playbook, Not Just Deal Flow

Why SKU Proliferation Slows Growth and What Leaders Should Do About It

How to Build the Foundations for Growth Before Scaling Too Fast

Scenario Planning for 2026: How to Make Better Strategic Choices When Uncertainty Keeps Rising

Integrating AI into Your Professional Services Firm

Developing Growth Strategies in Uncertain Times

Frameworks for AI Strategy Development

Strategy & Growth Consulting for Small and Medium Enterprises

Building Effective Governance for Growth

Navigating Industry Turmoil Through the Lens of a Small Bike Parts Business

Business Management: Key Consulting Approaches

Rapid Customer Learning Techniques for Businesses

Building Scalable Growth Systems for Startups

How AI is Revolutionizing Strategy Consulting

The Fundamentals of Effective Business Strategy

How can we be Resilient in Uncertainty?

How do we make choices when facing an uncertain future? Businesses striving for sustainable growth must embrace structured methodologies to navigate ambiguity effectively and build resilience.

AI & The Power of Make-Believe

Believe it or not, you can harness the power of AI to make you more creative.

AI is Disrupting Consulting, but It’s Not (Just) About Analysis

AI is here and its breaking consulting, but the future of consulting is not about replacing consultants with machines. It’s about leveraging AI to make consulting more agile, scalable, and impactful.

The Pro's Closet: A Lesson in the Importance of Coherence

The Pro’s Closet shifted from its disruptive business model to a traditional e-commerce approach, diluting its value to investors and creating confusion about their future as a business. This lack of strategic coherence, compared to companies like CarMax and Carvana, likely contributed to its downfall. Learn why we believe this happened and how to avoid the same trap.