Our Approach

Generating strategic growth and scale

For many owners and executive leaders of privately-owned firms, this is a top-priority challenge. An ambitious vision that requires specialized capability – strategic corporate development planning and origination skills, experience-backed knowledge, a network with global reach and relationship-building capacity – that are in short-supply, particularly when all current executive team members are focused on serving existing ‘home’ markets. Yet generation of long-term enterprise value depends on successfully sourcing a solution to the challenge of diversifying through strategic growth, to beneficially counterbalance a firm’s dependence on its local ‘home’ market.

The value of market diversification-driven growth has been clearly proven:

Firms that engage in trade across jurisdictions are more than 25% more productive and profitable than firms solely focused on their local ‘home’ market

Market diversification makes firms more risk-resilient, stronger and stable, better able to weather economic cycles and shocks that are inevitable

Firms which diversify across more than 1 market become more innovative and competitive, gaining advantage and outperforming firms locked to a single market

Higher-growth, ‘best-fit’ markets do exist and can be accessed, even by small and medium-sized firms: the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies are expanding at annual rates of 2-3x the global average, while growth in advanced ‘legacy’ economies continues to lag.

GROWTHBRIDGE connects businesses to opportunities in new high-growth markets, generating scale and building enterprise value for the long-term. GROWTHBRIDGE supports firms in reaching their strategic growth and development objectives via the most direct and efficient route.

We deliver on our service commitment by following a tested approach, tailored to the unique characteristics of each client firm’s need.

GROWTHBRIDGE works directly with

business owners and executive teams.

Our 'hands-on' approach reflects this 8-step process:

CONFIRM STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

Identify and confirm your firm’s core strategic objectives and associated operational imperatives, and their relative priority.

TARGET KEY GROWTH-GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

Determine how specific modes of growth (domestic and/or international) will contribute to achieving your strategic objectives and operational imperatives.

IDENTIFY ‘BEST-FIT’ HIGH-GROWTH TARGET MARKETS

Identify high-growth markets (domestic and/or international) that are best-fit given your firm’s needs, and the preferential terms of trade available to your firm via cross-jurisdictional trade treaties and government/NGO-provided trade facilitation supports.

INVENTORY AND ACQUIRE REQUIRED ‘TOOLS’

Assess and inventory the growth-required resource needs of each client firm, and game-plan the acquisition and harnessing-of those resources.

DESIGN TAILORED PLAN WITH ‘RESULTS MILESTONES’

Plan specific strategic growth initiatives in the targeted markets, designed to address each client firm’s priority objectives and imperatives, with results-based milestones.

MASTER APPROVAL OF PLAN AND RESOURCING

Gain approval of plans, and allocation of resources to targeted initiatives.

EXECUTE PER PLAN

Drive implementation of plan, with GROWTHBRIDGE providing hands-on execution support including – as required – fractional management of strategic growth initiatives, and direct-representation corporate development activities within target markets

LEVERAGE LESSONS-LEARNED FROM ‘RESULTS MILESTONES’

Incorporate ‘lessons learned’ into continued operational execution.

GROWTHBRIDGE’S service capabilities include much more than strategic growth planning and ongoing advisory.

Our hands-on execution service enables our clients to cost-effectively launch and implement strategic growth initiatives with the support of a unique suite of strategic corporate development planning and origination skills, experience-backed knowledge, a network with global reach and relationship-building capacity, all while helping current executive team members maintain a primary focus on serving existing local demand.

Across a wide range from:

low-profile market reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering…
to representative liaison with industry stakeholders and policymakers…
to origination of crucially important partnership and ‘anchor-client’ opportunities…
to fractional management of growth initiatives…
and many other forms of implementation actions vital to results-delivery,