Traditional financial or synergy approaches to portfolio strategy are no longer adequate for the complexity of today's multi-business corporations. Companies spanning multiple product and service markets, value chains, and geographies face a unique challenge.

The starting point to identify a company's current business designs and their future potential is a process called Portfolio Value Mapping.

The primary output of the process is a portfolio value map, a single view of the company across customer needs, economic neighborhoods, and sources of strategic control. This can quickly identify common risks and new "white spaces" of opportunity, as well as provide a solid framework for telling investors how the pieces of your company fit together.

Once the portfolio value map is drawn, we work with clients to develop their own business design "playbook" - a guide to where their businesses are today and where they should go tomorrow. Like the playbook used by the coach of an American football team, this playbook incorporates the experience and wisdom of dozens of other managers as to what works, when, and why.

The power of a playbook derives from the fact that many businesses go through a similar evolution of business designs, as customer needs and the competitive environment change.

A company's unique playbook represents the cumulative learning of the entire organization about how business models in its economic neighborhoods are evolving. Updated regularly and used intelligently, it can enable you to anticipate the next moves by your competitors and act first to outflank them. It can help you lead the organization to sustained value growth in the face of an increasingly complex environment.

And investors are keeping score.

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