Commercial Strategy

We help leaders make strategic choices that drive commercial success.

A strong commercial strategy brings clarity to where the company competes, how it differentiates, and how it wins business.

The Challenge

Growth without a clear commercial strategy is expensive and exhausting.

Most organisations are busy. The problem is rarely effort. Some have no real strategy. Others have one that reads well on paper but falls apart the moment someone has to make an actual decision. And many simply keep doing more of what they have always done, hoping that volume will fill the gap.

Without a clear view of where you compete, what sets you apart, and a commercial logic that holds under pressure, things start falling apart. Your sales teams chase everything. Focus disappears. Your people are working hard, but growth stays harder than it should be.

01
Winning aspiration
What does winning look like for us?
02
When to play
Which markets, customers and segments?
03
How to win

What is our right to win in those spaces?

04
Capabilities
What must we uniquely great at?
05
Managment systems
How do we ensure it happens consistenly?

Based on Roger Martin’s Playing to Win strategy cascade. Below, we show how Harvest translates each choice into action through six commercial lenses.

How Can We Help

From direction to execution — six lenses that shape a winning commercial strategy.

01

Commercial Direction & Growth Ambition
We help you define what winning means, clarifying your growth ambition, purpose and success criteria that guide all commercial decisions. What do you want to achieve?

02

Market & Customer Segmentation

We create shared activities that build a common best-practice approach across teams, so sales and leadership development becomes aligned and practical.

03

How to Win

We help you clarify why customers choose you and how you differentiate in the market. How do you win?

04

Capabilities

We help you define the commercial capabilities required to win by making clear what your organisation must be able to do consistently to deliver on your strategy. What do you need to be great at to win?

05

Management Systems
We help you establish the commercial management systems required to execute your strategy by defining how performance is managed, tracked and driven across the organisation. How do you ensure execution happens consistently?

06

Must-Win Battles

We help you define your must-win battles by focusing the organisation on the few initiatives that will drive the greatest impact. What are your must-win battles?

Meet Our Experts

The people behind the training and execution work.

Michael von Essen-Müller

Partner

Christian Dam

Partner

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of our experts

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