Private Equity Insights & Resources
Reading for the people who underwrite, govern and lead value creation—each with a different question about the same investment.
- Deal teams
- What can this operating organization actually deliver, and which thesis assumptions depend on it?
- Operating partners
- How does the thesis become governed, owned work across the hold—without overloading management?
- Portfolio CEOs
- How do I lead the value-creation plan and run the business at the same time?
Insights for private equity leaders
11 articles from the Compass library, selected for their relevance to private equity value creation.
- Written for private equity
The Next Acquisition Is Not the Growth Strategy
Written for PE-backed growth: talent architecture as part of the investment thesis and the operating system that converts acquisitions into capacity.
Read the Insight - FTB 80/20
Global Growth Dynamics: Revenue Growth vs. the Vital Few
Quads and quartiles on market, customer and product: how revenue growth turns into margin loss, and how allocation reverses it.
Read the Insight - FTB 80/20 · Strategic Intent
Choose the 80 Before You Design the Enterprise
The first design decision in a value-creation plan: name the vital few before redesigning the organization around them.
Read the Insight - SIMPLIFY · FTB 80/20
How Complexity Quietly Consumes Margin
Where complexity cost lands in margin, speed and leadership attention—often outside what the P&L shows.
Read the Insight - FTB 80/20
The Gardener's Choice — A Compass Fable
The Compass fable behind focus: the same resources yield more when concentrated on the vital few.
Read the Insight - FOUNDATION
Clean Sheet Organization Design: The Process
Designing the structure the strategy requires, starting from the vital few rather than the current org chart.
Read the Insight - LEAD
The Program Lens: Intake, Charter, Capacity, Honesty
Intake, charter and capacity: why value-creation portfolios stall when unranked work consumes leadership capacity.
Read the Insight - LEAD · ARC
Preserve the Traction. Architect the Constraint.
Preserve the execution system that works and address the constraint the current design keeps recreating.
Read the Insight - ARC
The Transformation Lens: Capacity to Absorb Change
Change fails at absorption more often than design—relevant to integrations and parallel value-creation workstreams.
Read the Insight - GROW
Capacity Is an Enterprise Decision, Not a Hiring Plan
Step-change growth decided as one enterprise question: demand, capacity, supply chain, workforce and capital.
Read the Insight - GROW · ARC
The Exit Lens: Value That Transfers Without the Owner
Transferable value: documented processes, governed data and named successors that hold without key individuals.
Read the Insight
Explore each discipline from a private equity perspective
Each page keeps the core definition and adds the private equity situation, desired outcomes and related reading.
Beyond the essays
- The Private Equity journey: ACCELERATEConnect the investment thesis with 80/20 focus, clean-sheet organization design and critical-path execution.
- Your first 90 daysA proposed working cadence from opportunity map to value-creation scorecard, scoped to the company’s readiness.
- Organizational Performance self-assessmentFifteen questions from a PE / operating partner perspective. Results stay in your browser.
- Exit PlanningCompass on building a more valuable, transferable enterprise ahead of a transaction.
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