THE BOOK
Forging Growth
A stronger business gives you more choices.
A practical guide for owners and leaders who want to understand the business they already have before deciding what should change.
The thinking behind a stronger business.
The book follows the five stages of the framework: Material, Heat, Forge, Temper and Sharpen.
01 / MATERIAL
Know what you are trying to build
Where do we choose to play? How do we intend to win?
02 / HEAT
Understand what has changed
What is changing in customers, competition, costs and technology?
03 / FORGE
Reshape what no longer fits
Where should leadership attention, work and capacity change?
04 / TEMPER
Make the stronger form sustainable
What economics and discipline will make improvement last?
05 / SHARPEN
Create advantage and choice
What should a stronger business now enable?
What the book explores
- Make clearer strategic choices about where to play and how to win.
- Understand where customer and economic value are created.
- Distinguish productive capacity from trapped, misaligned and genuinely constrained capacity.
- Align leadership attention with what strategy requires.
- Address constraints intelligently before adding more.
- Professionalise without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Turn internal strength into advantage and greater owner choice.
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