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Your BIGGEST Opportunity
is Global

The most viable way to exponentially increase your company’s valuation is through global expansion.
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GLOBAL MARKET DYNAMICS HAVE CHANGED

Successful executives are setting sights on international markets earlier - but that doesn’t make the journey easier. Effective global expansion is no longer about entering one market, then another, and another (eventually hitting a wall after the organization creates contrasting unscalable business models). Instead, it’s about building a pathway to global scale and an organization with the capabilities to thrive in dozens of countries across a truly global footprint.

Our approach bridges implementation and planning. We work with executives to build the foundation for global scale - evaluating tradeoffs and gaining alignment on a cohesive strategy that transcends borders. Then, we guide global growth teams through execution - building playbooks, overcoming challenges, and empowering your organization to expand faster and successfully operate at global scale.

COMPANY ASSESSMENT

Evaluate Global Capabilities

Success in your initial market doesn’t translate to international dominance. Just like a growth-stage company needs a different team, mindset, and expertise than a startup, so do companies planning to turn initial market validation into global scale. Companies wrongly assume they can hire a local team and operate similarly to what made them successful in existing markets; and leadership doesn’t make decisions the way executives at top companies do - ensuring that new market growth is the #1 growth driver (versus new products or customer segments).

Reaching global scale starts with building a foundation for international growth. This starts with aligning on how to approach global and validating organizational readiness across every function. Our proprietary Global Capability Score (GCS) and corresponding analysis identify gaps in the team’s approach to global, highlight the right organizational structure, and provide concrete recommendations to transform your leadership team into a team well-positioned to thrive against global competition and rapidly expand your business in multiple countries - learn more here.

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MARKET RESEARCH

Pick the Right Global Markets

Executive teams make the mistake of assuming market size, speaking the same language, geographic proximity, or even organic growth should automatically put a country near the top of the expansion list. In a time where markets are constantly shifting and competition is intensifying, it becomes harder to pick the right markets and strategies to successfully grow your business abroad. To help you overcome this challenge, we have developed a proprietary expansion framework that reduces risk and provides clarity into the right sequence of markets to target, providing a clear pathway to global scale.

More than just solidifying expansion criteria and determining market attractiveness, executive teams benefit from understanding how much the business must change to succeed in a given market, getting insights into the right market entry strategies and visibility into how to scale localizations across multiple markets - creating momentum and rapidly facilitating global growth. The Global Growth Opportunity Matrix (G-GO Matrix) equips a leadership team that has the right mindset with the right methodology and step-by-step process to build the right global expansion strategy - read article here.

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Client Results

Our insights and guidance help leaders successfully implement the structure needed to reach global scale. See how we’ve guided clients past challenges.

Overcoming operational challenges to penetrate a growing internatio...

From analysis paralysis to a pathway to global scale

STRATEGY CREATION

Deploy GTM Strategies

Because many executive teams put a premium on speed-to-market, even the most well thought-out go-to-market strategy meets the unexpected complexities of new international markets. Teams are forced to reactively combat a sea of localizations they were initially unaware of, challenging timelines and sending costs skyrocketing well above budget. Valuable key learnings aren’t socialized across the organization and local teams are forced to reinvent the wheel to get traction in the market.

Operationalizing go-to-market strategies (and iterating on them to find product-market fit in international markets) requires effective localization tactics, scalable playbooks, and proper resource allocation. The scaffolding must be set in place to adapt the model to fit the nuances of each local market while managing the complexity that comes with operating a multinational organization. 

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EXPANSION ENABLEMENT

Create Operations that Scale

Effective global expansion must be cross-functional from inception. In researching 200+ of the world’s fastest-growing companies to build our best-in-class methodologies, we were alarmed to find the amount of mistakes often made in the early stages of expansion - mainly caused by silos. 

To break down these roadblocks and help you avoid costly mistakes, we have developed the first of its kind international expansion platform to empower your people and operationalize key processes used by best-in-class companies. The Global Expansion Operating System (or GE-OS) is a fully customizable expansion management platform; enabling your team to identify new markets, develop go-to-market strategies, and find product-market fit, all while scaling your entire operation across a global footprint. Providing executive leadership with visibility into progress, facilitating cross-functional collaboration and accelerating international expansion, GE-OS provides a home for managing all the complexities of global growth - helping you progress from global aspirations to global scale - book a demo here.

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Connect with our leadership team

Klaus Wehage
Managing Partner
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Aaron McDaniel
Managing Partner
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