Fix the kitchen well before you list: Private equity pricing renovations

When M&A activity is hot, deals move fast. It reminds me of the housing market a few years ago, when people were buying homes after a five-minute walkthrough or sight unseen via staged realtor pictures. Likewise, private equity investors were …

How a quality of revenue analysis can drive growth

Not all revenue is created equal. Revenue from some deals generates strong profits and long-term growth, while others erode margins over time and stress your resources and team. Many commercial teams intuitively know that some deals are mispriced …

3 questions to ask in your next board meeting

Most senior leadership know that pricing can be the most effective lever to use in the short term to drive enterprise value. So why don’t more use it?  I believe it’s due to fear. Fear of losing customers if anything related to an offer is…

Value-based selling in higher education

Once in a while, we get a different type of project that gives us new ways to think about value-based selling. We recently had the pleasure of working with an organization that sells to higher education institutions. We had to think about the dyna…