The Fast Growth Index report

Fast growth doesn’t automatically equate to success. Instead, it’s a stress test of organisations’ capabilities to cope with increasing complexity. Scale brings new challenges, scrutiny and demands that prove the undoing of many promising businesses.

In this report, based on interviews with the entrepreneurs behind Britain’s fastest-growing firms from the Fast Growth Index, Professor Dylan Jones-Evans uncovers the factors that enable some to successfully and sustainably scale, while others are overwhelmed.

Read the report to learn about the central role of purpose in sustaining growth through complexity; the importance of people to build resilience; the customer obsession that disciplines decision making; and the execution under pressure that is essential to success. You’ll also learn that the UK’s most exciting entrepreneurs aren’t immune to making mistakes, but learn to trust the evidence of their success.

Drawing on these lessons, the report also proposes a framework for growth that is broadly applicable across sectors:

• Purpose as an anchor
• People as capacity
• Customers as the compass
• Execution as reliability
• Judgment under pressure

   

As S&W’s Terry Shephard explains in a foreword to the report, Professor Jones-Evans’ findings illustrate that the most successful businesses are those where culture, talent and systems work and evolve together: where firms keep connected to their entrepreneurial passion but also adapt and develop to meet the demands scale brings.

To find out more, download the full report today or get in touch with our experts today.