Building Competitive Advantage And Investor ROI With Stakeholder Capitalism
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Tackling the real challenges facing your future self:
Profit growth, increasing shareholder value by efficiency, differentiation, that gains market share by leading the ecosystem to solve operational, resilience, ethical and sustainability needs. Very specifically those factors that are vital to stakeholders at a human and institutional level.
2025-2040 is the dawning of an era of stakeholder capitalism. That is the key to your long term success. Let us help you create that strategy to magnetise whole ecosystems of stakeholders and mobilise them for your success.
Your ‘gravity’ will relentlessly attract companies towards yours when you become identified as solving their resilience and operational needs. With a value delivery mechanism you may systematise that and make the attraction permanent.
Humans are the deciders, your customers and employees. They will be drawn to you when your purpose reflects their principles; stands for things that matter most to them (including sustainability and ethics). Stakeholder centric strategy creates permanent gravity in human and institutional alignment.
Utilising stakeholder capitalism in the right way leads to increased company value
It’s a strategy that combines….
Operations
What is a business ecosystem? It’s not vague but is a series of inter-connected value chains (five horizons). So how will you improve them better than others can? Find a source of gravity that pulls others to you.
Sustainability
At a human level we all care and always have but lacked investment rationale. Will our business lessen or strengthen future generations’ ability to sustain? Now this will become a deciding success factor.
Ethical action
Human values, principles and purpose, are deciding factors driving 75% of customers and employees to move. You need to prove action, safeguard competitively, then find ways to leverage and lead markets.
Resilience
How you build societal and business ecosystem resilience: continuity, finance, operations, technology, organisation, marketing, sales… Differentiate by driving new ways of working, as a success strategy.
You're the right fit if you want to achieve the following...
Increased company valuation
Evidence that initiatives tuned into stakeholder priorities increases company value by double digit %, whereas ideation ignoring stakeholders can erode valuation.
Differentiated versus competition
Lasting differentiation that's both important and urgent to stakeholders, which competitors can't steal from you, vs fruitless investment in easily-copied features.
Improved funding and investment
The new reality: Investors know what the 2020's success-stories will look like and they will invest there. The question now, as always, is how you will make yourself ideal.
Long-term viability: By considering the needs and interests of all stakeholder groups, a company is more likely to create a sustainable business model that can withstand disruptive trends, market fluctuations and societal changes.
Brand reputation: Companies that are seen as taking a stakeholder-centric approach are often viewed more positively by the public, suppliers and employees, which can help enhance their brand reputation and increase customer loyalty.
Competitive differentiation: Being better attuned to operational and human-level desires of stakeholders keeps companies ahead of regulators, and through this companies can form competitive differentiation that lasts.
Attracting and retaining talent: Companies aligning to principles and purpose are better able to attract and retain top talent, and such a more productive and engaged workforce has been proven to improve all business outcomes.
Innovative ideas: When companies involve stakeholders in prioritising and decision making process, it uncovers new sources of ideas; input from other perspectives which can lead to better innovation ideas and solutions.
Compliance and legal requirements: Stakeholder capitalism may also align with legal and regulatory requirements. For example, corporate social responsibility policies, which are becoming more common in many jurisdictions, require companies to take into account the impact of their activities on a wide range of stakeholders. Better to look ahead.
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Driving progress with leading brands
BGM and Five Horizons, models and techniques successfully used since 1999 in pursuit of ‘growth nirvana’ have been repurposed to equip market leaders of the future. Any client’s task is to succeed in the ways their markets are moving – not in the ways of the past. This incorporates many aspects of strategy choices that are poorly addressed when companies assume their environment won’t change.
This intro video outlines the journey; the steps you can take with BGM, associates and partners.
You will also see more detail about the models, the history and philosophy, and about the capabilities of those involved.
How we do it
Services
Coaching, six weekly sessions bringing an expert lens to your reality, equipped with unique diagnostic tools and techniques, and combining these to aid self-reflection and focus on meaningful intentions that enable you to propel fresh thinking into teams.
3-5 month sprints with emphasis on identifying the sources of company valuation improvement that make the highest priority impact on value chains across your ecosystem, identifying the right bold bets that resonate with stakeholders, prioritising these across time horizons, and gaining consensus and the right support to mobilise for success.
Make sure innovative ideas, products and initiatives succeed. A robust governance and sometimes digital mechanism is required to ensure compliance with new ways of working, using enterprise grade solutions for automation, enablement and governance that drives adoption and consistent outcomes at scale across your employees, partners and clients in the extended ecosystem.
1) Decide, is the journey for you?
Unique diagnostic tool and interview, to evaluate your outlook and position on the maturity and readiness scale, and help you decide how and when you will act
2) Leadership clarity in the fog
6x weekly modules in a safe space with an expert, you will cut through the blur of hype, clarify how the next shift affects your market, and your personal strategy
3) Direction mapped and justified
Decide the strategic rationale and bold bets that will ready you for the desired future state, to plan for competitive and stakeholder-centric leadership
4) Implement; operate purposefully
Whether digital or not, in 3 month sprints you will prioritise, then build the case, then implement the to-be ways of working with suited technology enablers
The Five Horizons Ethos
This is an introduction from Steve Sanders to the Five Horizons book, ethos and approach.
This underpins our purpose and outlook on the great potential and grave risk facing clients, which drives us to help companies navigate the uncertain trends and disruptions of the 2020’s that may threaten business survival, or conversely offer unchartered opportunities to differentiate and change markets.