We’ve seen first hand that durable growth isn’t driven by quick wins — it’s built through systems that compound over time. Many companies experience bursts of expansion from innovation, acquisitions, or major contracts, but sustaining that momentum requires a deeper shift: from opportunistic selling to strategic, repeatable value creation.
From our perspective, durable growth always starts with focus. The companies that consistently outperform don’t chase every adjacent opportunity — they double down on the segments where their differentiation truly matters. They target the problems that are costly, high-impact, and defensible. That focus sharpens positioning, clarifies investment priorities, and builds brand strength that endures.
We also see that alignment is critical. Product, marketing, and sales must share a single, clear understanding of how the business creates value and for whom. Too often, silos dilute the message and fragment the customer experience. When leadership teams align around a shared growth thesis, execution accelerates, becoming faster, more consistent, and more measurable.
Finally, durable growth depends on discipline. The most successful firms build the processes, metrics, and culture that make growth predictable — embedding data-driven decision-making, refining their go-to-market model, and investing in talent that can scale with the business.
In a sector where complexity and inertia often slow progress, we’ve learned that durable growth isn’t about luck or timing. It’s about clarity, alignment, and discipline — a deliberate system that turns technological strength into sustained enterprise value.
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Mitch has spent years supporting senior leaders of operational and industrial technology companies as well as private equity investors that participate in the space. He is an active member of the Technology and Innovation Council at Graham Partners, a leading industrial technology focused private equity firm, and serves on the advisory boards of OptConnect (a top IoT connectivity provider) and DecisionPoint (a rapidly growing operational technology systems integrator). Mitch has worked closely with a wide range of industrial technology clients on a diverse array of growth opportunities and challenges including applications of AI, c-suite recruiting, strategic planning, new market identification and entry, product strategy, competitive positioning, revenue retention, value proposition identification and messaging, sales strategy and execution, and board presentations. Mitch holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.