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We know all about rapid growth and the driving forces behind rapid growth.

Creating and running a company with rapid, sustainable and profitable growth is demanding business.

In the long term…

… it demands foresight, flexibility and the ability to move the company in the right business direction.

From the everyday point of view…

… it demands the right decisions on a number of challenging occasions about what should be done and how it should be done in a rapid and uncomplicated way.

It also demands the ability to switch between these two points of view.
Being able to think long-term and with vision at one moment
and rolling up your sleeves to deal with everyday problems and
opportunities at the next.

Our role is to guide your company in this process so that growth targets
can be achieved rapidly and effectively with long-lasting energy.

Our work is based on the knowledge we have built up through research
and projects in hundreds of rapid-growth companies. We began in 1991
and have offices today in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

If you are going to cross a mountain, take someone with you
who has been to the other side.

The Unknown Principles of Rapid Growth

Here are some of the theories and concepts we follow.
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Create a Time Monopoly

Time is a key concept for rapid-growth companies.
What do your customers curse and swear about?
If you can solve these problems, you give your customers
a boost at the same time as you get a head start on
your competitors. Keep this lead by maintaining pace
and focus in close co-operation with your customers.

Break the Business Logic

Don’t let the existing “market” determine the rules.
Create new rules or get your customers to see the benefits of a new market with their own eyes.

Stand steadily on one leg

Dare to choose from all the existing possibilities and potential
customers. Invest effort where you can really (offer a boost.) make the difference.

Operate a circus

Create a tent organisation in which everyone rolls up their sleeves
and does their best to reach the common goal -
the evening performance.

Do not employ the best (persons).

The right set of values and the right personality are more important
than formal competence. Differences create dynamic power
and new thinking. A clearly expressed course
and a common set of values focus the energy.

How we achieve results for you and your company

Knowing what to do may seem enough of a challenge,
but it is not enough. That is why we do not just come up with
growth-creating ideas and solutions. We make sure that the results
show up in the everyday work as well. We implement to secure the result.

A result that is just as important is to avoid the pitfalls
that crop up at every phase in the growth process.

New perspectives and inspiration combined with firm guidance
and reliable methods will lead to results in the following fields:

Create market

Rapid growth is created by avoiding the market war and offering
something that upsets existing business concepts. This creates
a special status in the customers’ eyes. Basically it is a matter
of adopting a new approach, where the question to ask is:
How do we enlarge the total market?

The various phases of rapid growth also continually place
new demands on products, strategies and the organisation.

Resource gearing

Rapid and profitable growth demands great flexibility and the
ability to counter dramatic swings in volume at short notice.
The major challenge lies in gearing limited resources. Learning
to recycle and modulise. Collaborating with partners.

All this has to take place in harmony with the organisation’s
way of working all the way from concept to customer.
What should we do ourselves and what should we subcontract?
What is our core competence? It is not always what you think it is.

Hard-soft control

Running a company in which every phase has its challenges,
both opportunities and pitfalls, places demands on leadership
and the control system.

On the one hand it requires “softness” in order to retain the
rapid-growth mentality: to set free the entrepreneurs and
rebels. On the other hand, to succeed in this without lowering
quality standards, cost consciousness and pace, it requires
“hardness” in clearly expressed values and goals,
together with a lodestar that is meaningful in the organisation.

Conditions for rapid growth

A condition for being able to make the right decisions and give
priority to the efforts that are useful is to have a clear and
communicable picture of the current situation.

We analyse your company’s ability to grow rapidly. We note
what creates growth and what pitfalls, if any, might hold back
that growth potential. We measure how well you live up to your
values and how growth-oriented each individual is.