Integrated growth strategy reset the largest category in the portfolio

Case Study 

Author: Mike Holcomb | 5 minute read

The Opportunity

The biggest category in the business needed new thinking, not a better plan.

In most multi-brand businesses every brand has a plan and the category has none. Innovation is briefed brand by brand, capability investment follows whoever shouted loudest, and the sum of the parts is a portfolio moving in several directions at a pace the category will not reward.

The Approach

TPG ran the assessment and built the strategy architecture, the client leadership team made the where-to-play and how-to-win calls. The OGSMI is the device that forces those calls into one page: objectives, goals, strategies, measures, initiatives, with an owner against each. The organization and capability work was scoped in the same engagement, not deferred. That is why execution started rather than stalling at the handover.

The Outcome

Innovation master plan, capability plans, and brand priorities were all reset under one direction, with execution plans underway. 

Implemented

Adopted across the business unit

One direction

Innovation, capability, brand

Meet The Team

Mike Holcomb