Mid-cap firms form the backbone of the economy, driving innovation, employment and growth. These businesses excel at identifying market opportunities and being “fleet-footed” in their response – that’s why they’ve grown into successful businesses. Yet growth brings its own set of unique challenges requiring a change to the management system else growth stalls and profits decline.

Anaka Partners have worked extensively with investors and management to transform mid-cap companies to achieve a higher level of profit and growth.  Our process begins with a rapid, but comprehensive diagnostic to identify where value can be best generated, and the organisation needed to deliver the value creation plan. From here, we mobilise the right resources and workstreams to deliver immediate results, while building for future, sustainable growth.

It may sound simple, but when teams are focused on trading the business day-to-day, it helps to have a dedicated partner who can accelerate the business on their transformation journey providing critical resource, experience and pace.

Our partners are experienced transformation professionals who have worked with both large and medium-sized businesses. We’ve seen the challenges of scaling smaller businesses where critical investments are needed across people, governance and supporting processes & systems. This takes a different skill-set to those typically found in smaller businesses, yet often this need is over-looked leading to frustrations on why change is not happening quickly enough.

Implementing this change capability early in the investment cycle means that value creation initiatives can be clearly scoped and achievable plans developed. This leads to robust investment decisions (people, assets, systems) linked to clear benefits targets which have a much greater chance of success.