Top business growth strategies

Top business growth strategies include deepening existing markets, expanding into new markets, developing new offerings, and strategic partnerships or acquisitions. The best strategy depends on your stage, capabilities, and risk tolerance.

  • High-impact growth strategies:

    • Market penetration: Improve marketing, sales, and retention to grow share in existing segments. 

    • Market development: Enter new geographies or segments where your offer is a strong fit. 

    • Product/service development: Launch offerings that increase customer value and share of wallet. 

    • Partnerships and alliances: Collaborate with complementary organizations to access new customers or capabilities. 

  • To choose the right strategy:

    • Assess your strengths, constraints, and the "4 forces of growth" (demand, advantage, scalability, leadership alignment).

    • Ensure your organization - structure, people, and systems - can support the strategy you pick. 

Kindred Consulting Group:

  • Works with leaders to select and sequence growth strategies, then design the organization to execute them. 

  • The Kindred Clarity Framework ties strategy to day-to-day roles, structures, and decision-making rhythms.

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Dr. Powell Hinitz

Dr. Katie Powell Hinitz, Ph.D., MBA, is the founder of Kindred Consulting Group and a Principal Business Advisor. She specializes in helping executives transform organizational complexity into predictable, sustainable performance. Using her proprietary Kindred Clarity Framework, grounded in Industrial-Organizational Design and behavioral science, she pinpoints the structural friction stalling growth and translates complex information into clear, data-backed decisions for leaders navigating change.

Connect with Dr. Powell Hinitz: katie@team-kindred.com

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