Generating upside from ESG: Opportunities for private equity
Leading PE firms know that managing ESG factors helps create value. PwC’s newest survey looks at the industry’s evolving approach—and highlights prospects for further gains.
As businesses around the world continue to adapt to unprecedented challenges, the traditional view of value is due for an overhaul. A strategic pivot. A broader, bolder perspective.
But in pursuing a holistic transformation, which levers of growth should you pull to achieve long-term, sustained outcomes?
Whether you’re targeting an acquisition, considering a divestiture or looking to improve your enterprise performance, a Value Creation mindset goes beyond the expected to reveal untapped sources of growth.
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Value Creation with PwC
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Companies adapting to a COVID-changed world are rushing to reconfigure their businesses and capabilities, fueling M&A activity. But history shows that deals don’t always create value. How can corporate leaders ensure they are allocating capital to create sustained outcomes?
Our research reveals that acquisitions based on a capabilities strategy will generate the best returns. To avoid value loss, learn how to integrate capabilities consideration into impactful deal-making.
What about non-financial drivers of value?
For businesses looking for innovative growth solutions, it’s no longer enough to focus on financial drivers of value.
To create, protect and sustain enterprise value, executives must do more—and consider both a diverse set of stakeholders and a broad set of intangible considerations such as resilience, societal changes and ESG opportunities.
How can a company’s values be activated to drive value creation? Discover five actions that leaders can take to execute effective strategies in the context of a broader value creation ecosystem.
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How can you create value amid disruption? Use a value bridge.
For companies surrounded by economic uncertainty mixed with a competitive surge of deals worldwide, creating value is a real challenge. A value bridge can be used to identify actions that can prevent value loss and preserve value in times of disruption, while also strengthening your company's competitive positioning to help it come out ahead.
Every company situation is unique, so the application of the value bridge will vary by sector and for different circumstances.
Click through some examples of value bridge levers below.
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How we can help
Exploring unexpected angles, we work with you to define new approaches to value creation—from making your business more resilient to bolstering your ESG framework. We look holistically at all aspects of an organisation’s performance to propose enterprise-wide transformation initiatives or smaller scale optimisation programmes.
Driven by data, our tech-powered teams use AI, machine learning and cutting-edge analytics to build scenarios for your value chain. Our expertise in finance, operations, deals, strategy, tax and accounting, enables us to go wide and take the long-view to ensure your business is positioned to deliver sustained outcomes for the future.
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