Value Acceleration Process
A Value Acceleration process focuses on value growth and aligning business, personal, and financial goals.
- Integrates the exit plan into one master plan
- Is grounded in ACTION
- Promotes use of teams in an engaging process
- Creates a roadmap to success
- Provides owner key deliverables & metrics
- Creates a Leap in Value
EPI Value Acceleration Process
Additional Benefits
- Focusing on Value makes the timing of the exit irrelevant – always “ready”.
- Very predictable results.
- Breaks big strategic programs into 90-day chunks (Sprints!)
- Connects daily activities to value.
- Acts as a driver of organizational behavior.
- Mitigates Risk.
- Gets employees and management thinking more like owners – what are the financial impacts of their performance?
- Ensures owner and family wealth are at the center of the plan.
- Can be used as an inter-generational and employee development, transition and measurement tool.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Value acceleration is the process of deliberately strengthening the things that actually make your business worth more, like financial performance, how well it runs without you, and how easily it could transfer to a new owner. Rather than waiting until you’re ready to sell to think about these factors, value acceleration means working on them now, while you still have time to make a real difference in your outcome.
The value acceleration methodology gives you a structured way to see where your business stands today, identify what’s holding back its value, and prioritize the improvements that will matter most to a future buyer. Instead of guessing at what to work on, you get a clear roadmap for building a business that’s both more valuable and easier to hand off when the time comes.
Value acceleration and exit planning work together: exit planning maps out your path to a transition, while value acceleration strengthens the specific factors buyers and investors will scrutinize along the way, things like recurring revenue, management depth, and how dependent the business is on you. Owners who address these ahead of time typically see a stronger valuation and more favorable deal terms when they do decide to sell. If you’re not sure where your business stands on these drivers today, that’s a good starting point for a conversation.
