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Strategic Growth & Innovation
Breakthrough growth demands more than bold ideas. It requires disciplined execution as your organization innovates, expands, and makes acquisitions. Catalant empowers companies to:
APPROACH
The Path from Innovation to Scale
01
Diagnose growth horizons
Map current portfolio performance against market opportunities using proprietary diagnostics. Quantify the growth gap between current trajectory and strategic aspirations while identifying hidden execution barriers.
02
Design innovation portfolios
Build balanced portfolios across core optimization, emerging opportunities, and transformational bets. Establish clear governance, funding gates, and ROI thresholds to guide disciplined capital allocation.
03
Validate with experimentation
Deploy sprint-based MVPs and in-market pilots with clear kill/scale criteria. Leverage customer insights and real-options planning to systematically de-risk bold bets before major investment.
04
Execute go-to-market strategies
Develop comprehensive launch playbooks covering pricing, segmentation, and channel strategy. Enable expansion through scalable, digitally-enabled models that accelerate concept-to-scale transitions.
05
Scale winning ventures
Stand up dedicated growth teams or integrate validated concepts back into core operations. Wire performance systems, capability academies, and reinvestment mechanisms to compound growth.
06
Embed innovation capabilities
Install repeatable processes, governance structures, and cultural enablers for sustained innovation. Build organizational dexterity that balances operational excellence with entrepreneurial agility.
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Strategic Growth & Innovation Use Cases
Problem
A multi-billion-dollar global tech OEM faced stagnant growth and margin erosion. Despite significant R&D spending, its innovation pipeline consisted primarily of incremental product updates, leaving it vulnerable to disruption. The CEO’s satisfaction with innovation performance was critically low, and the company was perceived as a “fast follower” rather than an industry leader.
Action
Consultants partnered with the C-suite to launch a comprehensive growth transformation. The engagement included a full portfolio teardown using the Three Horizons model, revealing 90% of innovation funding trapped in low-risk, low-return core projects. The team helped leadership reallocate 30% of the innovation budget to new services and adjacent category expansion, co-launched agile sprints to rapidly prototype and validate new offerings, and designed new governance processes to accelerate decision-making.
Results
Within 18 months, the transformation delivered market-leading performance:
- Launched a new subscription business generating $150M+ in high-margin revenue
- Built innovation pipeline with $500M+ potential across ten new initiatives
- Advanced market position from fifth to second in core category
Industrial Conglomerate Reinvention
A $4B industrial conglomerate struggling with fragmented portfolios and declining margins engaged consultants to identify growth adjacencies. Through deep-dive portfolio segmentation and a $200M Growth PMO with stage-gate processes, the company generated $780M incremental revenue within 24 months, enhanced EBITDA margins by 320 basis points, and accelerated time-to-market by 40%.
Southeast Asian Rideshare Launch
A major Southeast Asian conglomerate partnered with consultants to enter the competitive rideshare market while boosting its emerging EV brand. By designing a vertically integrated, all-electric platform with an innovative employment model, the venture achieved #1 market share in Vietnam within 18 months, proved unit economics viability in Tier 1 cities, and accelerated brand exposure driving downstream EV sales growth.
AgTech Capital Deployment
Sitting on unallocated capital, a controlled environment agriculture company needed clarity on high-return deployment opportunities. Consultants analyzed data and insights from industry veterans and former competitors, revealing untapped growth nodes across North American segments. The engagement delivered a focused $125M investment roadmap with specific acquisition targets, transforming the capital strategy from scattered bets to structured, high-impact action.
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Strategic Growth & Innovation Consultants
Sid Dayal
Catalant consultant
Ex-strategy consulting and PE executive with corporate leadership experience
Aditya Venkatesh
Catalant consultant
Ex-Accenture, EY growth strategist for mid-market industrials and consumer brands
Sid Dayal
Ex-strategy consulting and PE executive with corporate leadership experience
Combines portfolio and growth strategy, new venture launch, revenue management, and GenAI-led workflow transformations with 20+ years of consulting, private equity, and corporate experience. Specializes in change management and M&A execution to drive sustainable business transformation and competitive advantage.
Aditya Venkatesh
Ex-Accenture, EY growth strategist for mid-market industrials and consumer brands
Accelerates growth for mid-market and Fortune 500 leaders by breaking free from hidden traps and defining where to play, how to win, and how to act with 20+ years of consulting and corporate experience. Developed Growth Trap™ framework that has guided Ingersoll Rand, Owens-Illinois, Marmon Group, PepsiCo, and DuPont to achieve transformational results.
Sid Breja
Ex-Amazon, Uber, eBay, Capital One strategist specializing in growth and innovation
Led strategic growth, innovation, and operational scaling across e-commerce, mobility, consumer tech and fintech for 20+ years. Scaled Amazon's Consumables business 5x, incubated growth platforms at Uber during IPO preparation, executed $10B+ in M&A including Whole Foods, and advised an EV leader on building a market-leading rideshare brand in SE Asia.
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