1. Growth and innovation
Project support overview

2. We’ll help you to tackle your critical challenges
Sample projects
Illustrative questions finance leaders seek to answer
Benchmark growth investment performance
How should I allocate my growth investment dollars across different business lines and growth opportunities?
What activities are others performing to support growth investment performance?
Create a capital investment screening process
How do others define the financial, strategic and risk-based parameters of their proposed investments?
What capital return metrics should I use to evaluate business cases?
Implement a proof-of-concept financing process
How do I identify which growth bets in the portfolio require a proof of concept?
What are the right stage gates to use to fund growth investments by type?
Perform a midcycle growth portfolio review
How do I identify high-potential and high-performing projects to inform resource allocation decisions?
What are the right assumptions for the performance drivers of my business?
How can I avoid transaction value leaks that arise from a poorly executed integration effort?
What role should the CFO play during the post-close integration process?
Formulate a post-transaction integration strategy

3. Tailored expertise and resources deliver impact in the areas crucial to your success
Benchmark your growth and innovation capabilities
Upgrade your processes
Stay ahead of the latest trends
How does my finance function’s ability to drive growth stack up?
How do we plan and execute our growth strategy fast and right?
How do I keep my finance function moving forward?
Identify how leading growth companies foster larger, transformative growth bets with our Growth Investment Benchmarks
Calibrate growth strategy budgets and staffing with our Strategy and Corporate Development Functional Benchmarks
Assess your company’s ability to drive top- and bottom-line growth using our Efficient Growth Scorecard
Measure the performance of your R&D investments with these R&D metrics
Understand high-performing acquisitive growth strategies with this research
Instill rigor, consistency and objectivity in your investment business cases with our Guide to Screening Capital Investments
Accelerate high-potential growth projects and reallocate growth funding to remove execution barriers using this case study
Align growth opportunities with your corporate strategy using the Guide to Creating a Corporate Strategic Plan
Supplement your team’s M&A delivery capabilities with our M&A Tools and Templates Library
Quantify strategic alignment of your growth investments with this case study
Innovate new financial methods for digital business with Gartner expert research
Protect the innovation budget for critical growth areas and make informed trade-offs with this research
Understand the critical capabilities of cloud strategic corporate performance solutions with Gartner expert research
Learn more about the innovation potential of disruptive blockchain technology with Gartner expert research

4. Your first 90 days as a client (Illustrative)
Month 1
Month 2
Month 3
Assess your company’s ability to drive top- and bottom-line growth using our Efficient Growth Scorecard
Align growth opportunities to your corporate strategy with our Guide to Creating a Corporate Strategic Plan
Instill rigor, consistency and objectivity in your investment business cases with our Guide to Screening Capital Investments
Identify how leading growth companies foster larger, transformative growth bets with our Growth Investment Benchmarks
Accelerate high-potential growth projects and reallocate growth funding to remove execution barriers using this case study
Protect the innovation budget for critical growth areas and make informed trade- offs with this research
Kick off this initiative with your service associate; discuss your challenges and align key resources
Review progress with your service associate and create a forward engagement plan
Review progress to ensure continued delivery of the right resources at the right time
Discussion: Which best-practice approaches are best for my organization and growth pipeline?
Discussion: How do we align finance strategy and business strategy?
Efficient Growth Scorecard Review: What growth anchors are inhibiting my growth and innovation potential?
Discussion: What leading indicators should we monitor for an upcoming midcycle portfolio review?
Discussion: How do we make the right trade-offs in growth funding and resources?
Annual Executive Retreat: Improving Growth Investment Returns: Cultivating Growth Investment Over-performance
Written Research
Service Associate Support
Analyst & Advisor Inquiries
Live Events

5. We cover a range of key finance and technology initiatives to equip you for success
Your service will be designed to help you deliver the underlying projects and initiatives that are crucial for accomplishing your biggest Finance challenges.
Budgeting
Cost Management
Facilities Management
Finance IT
Finance Organizational Structure
Finance Roles and Responsibilities
Finance Strategy
Finance Talent
Forecasting
Functional Analysis
Growth and Innovation
Internal Controls
Investor Relations
Management Reporting
Metric Selection and Dashboard Design
Portfolio Planning
Real Estate Functional Management
Real Estate Customer Relationship Management
Robotics
Shared-Service Customers
Shared-Service Fundamentals
Shared-Service Performance Measurement and Improvement
Shared-Service Strategy
Shared-Service Talent
Tax Operations
Workplace Strategy

6. How we deliver value to your peers
“We were given insights around competency frameworks that other organizations have developed. We’ve now applied it to our own organization in terms of the competencies that we’re looking to build in the future, moving away from the more technical competencies that we’ve done in the past and towards guidance.”
Richard Morley
Head of Finance
NFU Mutual

7. Deliver your critical Finance priorities
We’re ready to help you excel against your critical finance challenges.
Get in touch to discuss how we can fast-track your success.