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The Operational Pivot Has Reached Commercial Growth
Executive Takeaways
- Leverage, timing, and multiple expansion are no longer enough to drive returns.
- Hold periods are stretching past 7 years — operational value creation is now the mandate.
- A growth system connects insight, strategy, execution, and measurement. A campaign does not.
- Buyers are not evaluating historical performance. They are evaluating the system behind it.
The New PE Value Creation Playbook: Part One
Series Introduction
Private equity value creation has entered a new era.
For years, firms could rely on leverage, market timing, and multiple expansion to help drive returns. That environment has changed. Capital is more expensive, exit timelines are less predictable, and buyers are applying greater scrutiny to the quality, durability, and repeatability of portfolio company growth.
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Beyond the ABCs of Customer Due Diligence
Dec 14, 2018 10:50:29 AM — GPs can win invaluable insights into a potential acquisition by conducting high level interviews with customers that dive deeper than any standard issue survey ever will. Here’s how GPs can learn much more from talking to a target’s customers. While GPs devote real time and rigor into performing due diligence into a possible acquisition, they sometimes will give short shrift to a constituency that’s key to the growth and the eventual success of the investment: the customer.