Ascent growth partners
Ascent Growth Partners is a consulting firm with a difference. We partner with our clients to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing business environment, enabling extraordinary growth and accelerating change.
Whether you find yourself at times of abundant opportunity or when navigating
challenging times for your organisation – discovering, preparing for and powering
growth is essential to the long-term prosperity of your organisation.
Our story
I have always been fascinated by the natural phenomenon of growth.What makes us grow as individuals and how we come together as ateam, to achieve something significant and, as a consequence, make a lasting impact on our environment.
I found this to be in direct contrast to what I saw around me, in the world of consulting. I saw firms choosing scale over impact or significance, feeling compelled to ‘feed an army’ of professionals rather than promote sustainable capability growth.
Why Growth Matters
Find a 3rd and better way
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Be proud, not arrogant
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Taking responsibility
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Transparent everything
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Growing people
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Supporting individual
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The Ascent Experience
GROWING A DIGITAL BUSINESS
INTO A NEW CORE
The challenge was to develop a portfolio of digital offerings (e.g. Smart Cities, IoT and Security), which would position the company at the centre of a rapidly changing ecosystem. The work involved leadership alignment across stakeholder groups, developing new value propositions and rapid prototyping and testing in the market, while forging new partnerships with customers and others to scale the new business into a new core.
The new digital business is now established and is set to become a new core business for the group.
Adolfo
TRANSITIONING FROM FOSSIL FUELS
TO CLEAN ENERGY, AT SPEED AND SCLAE
Our client, an international energy and resources group, is on an ambitious drive, to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy – powering a clean world. This transition entails divesting of coal assets and establishing an integrated portfolio of cleaner energy assets and services.
Our work includes developing the business strategy, based on their extensive capability set and market opportunities identified in Renewables, Storage, Gas and new Energy Services. This is supported by establishing a dedicated M&A unit, as they become a acquisitive business, as well as designing the organisation and governance mechanisms which would support this growth path and empower business units to act.
One of the early outcomes of this transition has been the degree of engagement and confidence shown by the Board, both in the new strategic direction and the organisational changes.
Charmaine
COMMERCIALISING NEW PRODCUTS
AND SERVICES AT SCALE
As a leading financial services group in emerging markets, our client wanted to accelerate the development of bundled products and services, into valuable offerings for their customers. The intention – to establish and scale this opportunity across a customer base of app. 500 000, while managing operational and credit risks.
We determined that the current business architecture could not cater for effective bundling; The solution we designed utilise ‘best-of-breed’ components which could be deployed rapidly and made available to self-service customers as well as the Bank’s staff and partners.
Bundles could be launched on a frequent (1-2 week) basis, not restricted by the Bank’s release cycle while business intelligence is gathered from various customer interactions, leading to a better, more measurable customer experience.
Saar
What our clients say
Testimonials
“The approach your team takes to develop insights throughout all levels of the organisation (from Board level, through to core teams in the business) has been great. This helps develop buy-in and diversity of thought, creating truly innovative outcomes. Thank you for partnering with us on our growth and transformation journey.”
Alex De Angelis, Group Head: Business Excellence, Exxaro Resources
“The approach your team takes to develop insights throughout all levels of the organisation (from Board level, through to core teams in the business) has been great. This helps develop buy-in and diversity of thought, creating truly innovative outcomes. Thank you for partnering with us on our growth and transformation journey.”
Amasi Mwela, CEO of Fundi Capital (2016-18)
“You brought such rigour and discipline into the review of our existing business and helped define a credible path to realising our growth aspirations.
Dr. Derek Shirley, Founder and Chief Executive of Cornerstone Performance Solution
“We have had many consultants try and tackle this type of challenge over the years , you and your team stand head and shoulders above everyone we have worked with.”
Thinus Mulder, CEO of DFA, South-Africa
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