Inconsistent Growth

Many mid-market private companies are still recovering from the recession, chasing top line growth and recurring revenue, using new technology to control expenses, looking for the right people, dealing with new competitors, and fighting fiercely for market share and customers.

Fragmented Advice

Rapid changes in business and markets increase demand for specialized advice. But specialization means a narrowing of focus and a loss of integration of that advice. This can create incomplete, if not conflicting, strategies to grow value, improve operations and manage risk.

Operational Deficiencies

Business is a survival of the fittest. For your company to compete for talent, capital, partners or buyers, you need to streamline operations. Improved operational excellence creates greater transparency, lower cost of capital, higher margins, longer term employees and agility.

Growing Complexity

CEOs say complexity is their top challenge, but fewer than half say they are agile enough to deal with it. Companies face unpredictable economies, policies, technologies, and information. Today’s economy is increasingly VUCA – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

Unaligned Priorities

Owners pour their time and money into a business, but often overlook the need for balance between personal and business needs. Meeting objectives of both means careful planning to mange opportunities, risks and resources, using appropriate skills and tools.

. . . Each Of Which Costs You Money

The impact of these five challenges is lost company value. AEG’s work with several thousand companies shows an average company missing 1/4 of its potential value, with the top five value gaps decreasing value by $2.5 million on a $22 million company. (See details)