Who are we?
Growth Strategy is a boutique strategy consultancy that relentlessly pursues growth in shareholder value via implementable quant-led strategic advice. We passionately work across a spectrum of corporates, private equity portfolio companies and earlier-stage businesses to realise the common goal – growth.
Ultimately people deliver change and therefore we work in a highly collaborative manner to uncover deep market insights, identify clear solutions from complexity and prioritise opportunities to ensure winning results and sustainable competitive advantage are implemented and realised.
We are investor-minded given our ultimate responsibility to the owners of the client business (be they private equity funds, private individuals or public shareholders), an approach we also leverage in backing our ability to identify and realise growth potential by investing and taking board positions in high potential early stage businesses, also giving us insight into the cutting edge of digital thinking.
Approach
Our role is to support our clients in making distinctive, material and enduring change in the performance of their organisations, ultimately achieving growth in shareholder value. This is achieved through decision support in regard to major strategic questions for top management, with an approach that is founded on:
- Relentless pursuit of shareholder growth opportunities
- Quant-led deep insights and strategic advice
- Creative solution development
- Clarity of direction from complexity
- Close collaboration across owners, board, senior management and the wider organisation
- Implementation focus on how and who, passionately embedding change and developing internal capabilities
Values
Our work is guided by our six core values:
Client first
This means we deliver more value than expected. We often pursue a rich vein of inquiry to deliver a distinctive and impactful answer beyond the constraints of a tightly framed project scope.
Senior team
As a specialist strategy boutique, the delivery of each and every client project is directly and intimately led and delivered by Mike Bristow. We only take on engagements where we are confident in our ability to deliver first class insights and distinctive recommendations. Our extensive network allows us to access insights and where necessary build a team with specific expertise.
Clear and true answer
Clients come to us because they have complex, material questions to answer (eg enter a new market, acquire a company, reallocate global resources, launch a new product, recover market share loss etc). Being an independent boutique allows us to think clearly, openly and creatively about the correct answer based on structured problem solving and fact-based analysis of the underlying fundamentals of the challenge. We always ensure the answer is actionable and effective.
Unique assets
By strongly focusing on certain sectors, we have been able to not only build a robust picture of the competitive landscape of the client markets we serve but we have also consciously adopted the practice of building up intellectual property assets to underpin recurring pivotal problem sets. These unique tools allow us to add value from day one.
Collaboration
We like to collaborate in an open, close and passionate manner with our clients. We thrive off challenges and believe the best answers come from tackling problems from first principles and challenging conventional assumptions. We believe in the importance of establishing buy-in, as ownership is crucial to success and will work closely with you throughout a piece of work.
Professional integrity
The reputation of our firm and our profession rests upon the highest professional standards, quality of the end product and principals of client confidentiality. We are also pride ourselves with fitting in with client culture, wherever in the world that may be.