Case Work & Expertise

Accance founder Alexander Asplund has supported management teams with revenue growth and margin expansion initiatives in more than 50 private equity owned portfolio companies. Alexander has also supported over 25+ private equity funds with 100+ commercial due diligence cases.

Alexander is the author of "The Private Equity CEO Playbook" which is the world's largest study of its kind, based on in-depth interviews with 350 CEOs of portfolio companies with active owners. The Playbook provides guidance on the top best practice lessons to achieveing success in the value creation journey. Alexander is also the author of "Towards Full Potential", a study based on in-depth interviews with 117 CEOs in Private Equity portfolio companies. 

Accance's founder brings expertise and best practices from over 250 engagements across 30 different B2B and B2C sectors and 12 countries.

Approach

Focus on value creation: The potential for accelerated value creation, via revenue growth, profit expansion and effective implementation is in focus in all assignments. Our team validates the potential and develops actionable strategies & pragmatic initiatives to capture the potentials.

Fact-based analysis: Accance work with a hypothesis driven approach and fact-based analysis. In order to understand a market and test our hypotheses, our team will typically interview 20-50 customers and a substantial number of value chain players to understand the market, the customers and the opportunities.

End-to-end support: We provide effective support where it adds most value to our client. The support may be centered on analysis and understanding; or on developing strategies and concrete initatives; or on supporting and accelerating the implementation effort.

Small, experienced & flexible teams: We bring small and experienced teams to our assignments. We are flexible and work on both short-term and narrow-scope analysis projects and on long-term & larger scale implementation projects.

Close co-operation: We always work closely together with the client organization in order to leverage internal knowledge, develop shared insights and to secure a strong committment to key decisions and actionable priorities.