What the highest-performing businesses do right
A PwC survey drills down on the practices of companies that enjoy vastly greater profit margins and revenue growth than their peers.
The top 20% of companies achieve more than 13 times the performance premium of their industry peers, based on a measure of profit margin and revenue growth. But how are these winners getting ahead? Our researchOpens in a new window found leading companies do three things:
- Seek the value upside in business ecosystems by using new business models.
- Upgrade their operating models through managed services partnerships and technology.
- Keep transforming by investing in opportunities and threats as they emerge.
Joining the winners requires top-to-bottom, end-to-end transformation of your business, operating, and technology models to unleash innovation, agility and faster speed to market.
How do you stack up against the leaders?
Take this five-minute quiz to see where your organisation stands on the three dimensions driving superior performance—and how it can improve.
Quick reads
3 results
Top companies are betting big on ecosystems
PwC research shows that high-performing businesses make bolder, and smarter, investments in cross-industry collaborations.
How top companies are making the most of managed services
The highest-performing businesses are using these outside partnerships for a lot more than back-office cost-cutting, according to PwC research.
Deep dives
6 results
What leaders at winning companies know—and what you need to learn
Successful leaders at top-performing companies are all taking similar steps, even across industries, propelling their enterprises to a 13-fold performance advantage over rivals.
The secret to accelerating performance
Ready to overtake the competition? New research from PwC reveals what leading companies are doing differently and how you can join them.
Accelerating performance in a winner-takes-most world
Top-performing companies use mutually reinforcing investments to create non-linear advantage. Everyone else is just playing catch-up.
Tapping ecosystems to power performance
Top companies are 1.6 times more likely than other companies to leverage ecosystems to gain competitive benefits. Explore how ecosystems can fuel success.
The obsession advantage in transformation
Successful leaders recognize the need for ongoing, end-to-end transformation and they are more than a little obsessed with achieving the outcomes that matter.
How managed services partnerships drive outperformance
Our research shows that top-performing companies are 4.2 times more likely to use managed services partnerships for strategic advantage. Explore our key findings.
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