May 20, 2012

Why Growth

While economic growth is vitally important it is critical to deliver this in a way that does not elevate pure profit above societal or environmental value. More »

Why Growth Why Growth

Ways to Grow

Successful organisations need to understand the emerging landscape, identify the areas that have the greatest potential for value creation and make intelligent, informed choices. More »

Ways to Grow Ways to Grow

Core Business Growth

Organisations are continually looking to enhance their performance through optimising their core innovation strategies. More »

Core Business Growth Core Business Growth

New Business Growth

As organisations seek to take advantage of new growth opportunities, they exploit new technology or networks to change the basis of pricing and competition. More »

New Business Growth New Business Growth

Emerging Opportunities

Growth champions identify and track emerging developments and link these directly to new growth investments. More »

Emerging Opportunities Emerging Opportunities

Your Ambition

Companies want to build and sustain growth for the future and do this more effectively than the competition. More »

Your Ambition Your Ambition

Our Organisation

The Growth Agenda is a global network of leading expertise in foresight, strategy and innovation. More »

Our Organisation Our Organisation

The Principle

The Growth Agenda provides a global network of expert-only support dedicated to the issue being addressed. More »

The Principle The Principle

Future Agenda

At a time where important decisions need to be made across many areas, the Future Agenda provides a distinctive perspective to stimulate ideas and action. More »

Future Agenda Future Agenda

The Team

Our network includes CTOs, CMOs and strategy directors from leading companies, professors from major business schools and influential policy advisors for governments. More »

The Team The Team

Our Support

Organisations need a distinctive combination of differentiated foresight, strategy and innovation insight and expertise. More »

Our Support Our Support

Emerging Landscapes

Emerging landscape maps help organsations seeking to enter a new space of opportunity to quickly recognize where the pivotal areas and issues will occur. More »

Emerging Landscapes Emerging Landscapes

Growth Labs

Growth labs are accelerated events that bring together a mix of internal and external expertise to identify and develop major growth opportunities for an organisation. More »

Growth Labs Growth Labs

Growth Programmes

Growth Programmes are long-term projects that identify major new areas of growth opportunity and help organizations to highlight the best options. More »

Growth Programmes Growth Programmes

Strategy Development

In co-developing new growth strategies we focus on defining the most sustainable options and mitigating associated corporate risks. More »

Strategy Development Strategy Development

Scenario Creation

We help organisations to better manage uncertainty through the co-creation of scenarios that allow them to be better prepared for the future. More »

Scenario Creation Scenario Creation

Expert Panels

Expert panels help to challenge assumptions, recognise additional issues to be accommodated and make the growth ambitions clearer and more solid. More »

Expert Panels Expert Panels

Leadership Development

The Growth Agenda provides a wide range of leadership development support from talks and events to retreats and corporate university programmes. More »

Leadership Development Leadership Development

Growth Agenda Institute

The Growth Agenda Institute brings growth champions from different fields together to share perspectives, and discuss and debate key issues and opportunities. More »

Growth Agenda Institute Growth Agenda Institute

Resources

Some of the books written by members of the Growth Agenda team that may be useful. More »

Resources Resources

Welcome to the Growth Agenda

The Growth Agenda is a global network of leading-edge expertise that helps organisations identify and exploit major new growth opportunities.

We enable companies to better understand emerging changes and develop growth strategies to create and capture value from innovation. Using proven approaches that have delivered tangible, sustainable impact, we provide a unique combination of global expertise that leading organisations are engaging to help them build distinctive competence and jump ahead of their peers.

With global insights on the big challenges for the next decade, supported by leading-edge views on how growth and innovation is changing, the Growth Agenda draws together bespoke teams of experts from a wide range of organisations to help you to identify, scope and deliver major growth platforms.

We provide access to expertise and different perspectives to support the creation and growth of economic, social and natural capital, and help organisations to find ways of creating sustainable growth. Our aim is to strike a balance between short and long-term needs that also considers the sustainability, or wellbeing, of business, society and the environment.

This website provides an overview of our perspectives on growth and areas of our support.

Growth Champions

Just published by Wiley, this new book by some of the Growth Agenda team looks at the most successful growth companies of the last decade. Drawing on extensive analysis, interviews and detailed discussions of what delivers sustained growth in 20 different organisations, this major book includes a combination of case studies and review of key success factors. Covering a wide range of sectors and issues, the companies covered are Amazon, Apple, ARM, Audi, BASF, Bharti, Google, Inditex, LEGO, Narayana, Nestle, Novo Nordisk, PepsiCo, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Rolls-Royce, Samsung, Shell, Starwood and Tata. A core part of the Growth Champions book focuses on what are the distinctive competences that each of these organisations have developed that gives them the edge of their peers.