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Shermand

Growth Strategy & Business Diagnostics

Know where your business stands, and where it can go.

We look at your business across seven dimensions, understand what makes it unique, and identify where the biggest growth opportunities are. You leave with a tailored, prioritized plan, not a list of observations.

Business diagnosticSample view

2.9

Overall maturity
out of 5.0

  • Strategy & direction3.8
  • Commercial performance3.2
  • Operations2.1Primary constraint
  • Processes2.6
  • Data & reporting2.3Secondary
  • Technology & tools3.0
  • Organization & people3.4
Value at stake by levershare of total opportunity
44% Operations26% Data & reporting19% Commercial11% Other

Signals we look for

Sound familiar?

  • S1Results are below potential and no one agrees on why.
  • S2Leadership debates opinions because the facts are not on the table.
  • S3Too many initiatives run at once, and few finish.
  • S4Growth is planned, but the operation cannot support it.
  • S5An investor, board, or new leader needs a clear baseline.

Capabilities

What we do

Diagnostics

  • Business health diagnostic across seven dimensions
  • Operational and process assessment
  • Data and reporting maturity assessment
  • Technology and tools review

Strategy

  • Growth strategy
  • Business model and portfolio review
  • Go-to-market and commercial strategy
  • Strategic roadmap and business case

Value & performance

  • Value-at-stake and opportunity sizing
  • KPI framework and baseline

How it runs

A typical engagement

  1. 1

    Interview leadership and the people closest to the work.

  2. 2

    Walk the main processes end to end.

  3. 3

    Analyze financial, operational, and customer data.

  4. 4

    Score each dimension and identify the primary constraints.

  5. 5

    Size the value at stake for each opportunity.

  6. 6

    Agree priorities and a sequenced roadmap with leadership.

Outcomes

What you can expect

  • A shared, fact-based picture of the business
  • The few constraints that matter most, ranked
  • An estimate of value at stake for each
  • A roadmap with owners, sequence, and measures
  • A baseline to measure progress against

Specific targets are agreed at the start, based on your diagnostic baseline.

Who it helps

Built for your stage

Founders and owners
Who sense the business could do more but cannot pinpoint what is holding it back.
Growing companies
Preparing for the next stage, a new market, an investment round, or a change in leadership.
Established organizations
Needing an independent, fact-based view before committing to a transformation program.

Independent and confidential

Our diagnosis is only useful if it is honest. We report what the evidence shows, including uncomfortable findings, and we treat every figure and conversation as confidential.

Next step

Let’s look at your business together.

Tell us where you want to take the business. We’ll show you how to get there: bigger, leaner, and more profitable.