Slidy DSL: Where the Growth in the Plan Really Gets Lost
We nicknamed our SDSL launch "Slidy DSL" because the deadline kept slipping. Growth in a value-creation plan is rarely lost within a single team. It leaks through the gaps between them.
Why Commercial Leaders Get Replaced Before the Plan Gets Fixed
I was asked to fix a marketing problem. Marketing was delivering the leads; the revenue was going missing in the handoff to sales. Before replacing a commercial leader, check where the plan is really failing.
The Ghost Metric: Why Commercial Performance Data Can Tell the Wrong Story
The most dangerous number in your commercial reporting is the one that looks right. Ghost Metrics sit in board packs and drive decisions, but measure what's easy, not what's actually happening.
The Unified Cadence
Product, marketing and sales usually agree on strategy. What they rarely share is a rhythm. The Unified Cadence moves decisions, data and priorities between all three on one clock instead of three.
The Synchronisation Tax
A portfolio company hits its numbers, and nobody asks how much more it could have made. The Synchronisation Tax is the value lost when product, marketing and sales agree on strategy but move at different speeds.
Before You Automate the Commercial Engine, Make Sure It Runs
Most businesses use AI to run the same commercial playbook faster. But buyers have moved on, and AI on a misaligned engine only speeds up the problem. Fix the engine first.
What Commercial Due Diligence Misses and Why It Costs You the First 100 Days
Diligence asks whether the market opportunity is real. It rarely asks whether the commercial engine can capture it at the pace the plan needs, and that gap tends to show up six months after close.
Why Value Creation Plans Stall
Most value creation plans rest on a market thesis, not an honest look at whether the business can execute it. That's where returns leak, and why plans drift long before anyone notices.