If you’ve worked in or around private equity (PE) companies, you’ll know it’s all about value creation. PE firms make their money by buying businesses, increasing their value, and selling them at a premium. They’re experts at creating value under pressure — so their approach is worth understanding. In this post, we’ll look at the private equity lifecycle and take a deep dive into PE value creation sprints.
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Private equity firms live and breathe value creation — it’s how they make their money. But they’re not the only ones who should care. Every business leader should be thinking about value creation. Yet, surprisingly, many aren’t.
So what is it? Why does it matter? The short answer: the most successful businesses understand how to build, scale, and sustain growth by deliberately creating value — for customers, employees, shareholders, and more. If you’re not focused on it, you’re leaving opportunity (and probably money) on the table.
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The 3F Health Check is a fast, human-centred diagnostic that reveals what’s really holding your business back—across leadership, culture, strategy, and execution.
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I’ve never seen a hype cycle like this one. Huge sound bites about AI — specifically, generative AI. Depending on who you ask, AI is either a helpful copilot or it’s gunning for your entire dev team’s jobs. As usual the truth is probably somewhere in between. But with so many CEOs talking up how much code AI is generating, it’s worth stepping back to ask: are they predicting the future, or selling it?
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