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Women in growth companies - some data to illuminate the situation
Data on the characteristics and dynamics of small and mid-sized companies can be a bit thin. So, on International Women’s Day, we thought it might be interesting to share analysis from across two Catalysis databases.…
Do you really have a strategy? A practical definition to help you know
One way to define what Catalysis does with investors and companies is that we (i) help directors create executable strategies and then, (ii), make sure that the managerial and organisational underpinnings of strategy execution are in place. On the first point, we don’t identify the ‘what’ of strategy…
Why the organisational balance sheet is as important as the financial one
You are, of course, very familiar with financial balance sheets and how they relate to on-going activities (think P&L) and concrete outcomes (cash). Likewise, you know about the category of intangibles, i.e. assets you cannot touch, see or count easily such as software…
How do companies grow? Some little-known insights for investors and teams
A few years ago, there was a major study carried out by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) at Aston University which looked at the performance over time of 48,000 high growth firms (HGFs) in the UK. HGFs are defined by the OECD as companies ‘with average annualised growth…