Our intellectual framework underpinning our six services was developed through a deeply empirical approach and is summarised in Accelerating Performance
A little bit about our approach
Consider the strategies of the worlds top ten banks, there’s barely a hairs breadth between them. Ditto for car manufacturers, oil companies, insurers, and retailers. The returns on strategy have fallen precipitously as technology has reduced barriers to entry and increased access to knowledge. And yet the shareholder returns of the top quartile banks are 4x those of the bottom quartile. It’s the same in every industry.
The key to competitive success is no longer strategy, it is the ability to mobilise, execute and transform with agility.
“Delivering sustainable, standout performance is the holy grail for business leaders. Colin and Sharon present a compelling agenda to help leaders increase the metabolic rate in their business, thereby creating the conditions for long-term success. Boards and CEOs should take note - and take action”
“Some business books excel at data-based analytical rigour, others at strategy, leadership or soft skills. Accelerating Performance integrates all these vital components and teaches leaders how to drive fast with vision”
“An ambitious, breakthrough book! Who wouldn’t want their company to be in Colin and Sharon’s group of super-performers? Drawing on original research, illuminating cases, and practical advice, they show us a surprising - even unfashionable - route for companies to get there: not by reinventing themselves but by becoming significantly better versions of who they already are! Smart, funny, with a very high ‘PIPSI’ (provocative ideas per square inch)”