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    “The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.”
    Albert Einstein
    “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
    aristotle
    About CovQ by 8W8
    CovQ by 8W8 is a NYC-based technology and applied knowledge firm specializing in the development of the CovQ Value Creation OS. In addition, our platform provides unique data-driven insights and deployable solutions tailored to thrive business performance.

    The Harvard Business Review Analytic Services produced in association with CovQ by 8W8 the briefing paper ‘Mastering Value Creation by Centering Strategy and Execution’ defining a new category: value creation management platforms.

    CovQ (Compound Value Creator Quotient) encompasses a value-driver-based corporate IQ assessment system, a framework, method, and knowledge embedded in SaaS/PaaS for strategy management, reporting, team communication, collaboration, and alignment measurement.

    At CovQ by 8W8, we focus on empowering forward-thinking and ambitious management teams, investors, consulting and advisory firms to consistently deliver exceptional outperformance.

    Engagements

    “We were asked by CovQ to conduct research on value creation strategy. And I have to say, we were very excited by the opportunity mainly because the mission of Harvard Business Review is largely about executing your strategy or simply said getting strategy done.”

    Alex Clemente Managing Director, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services

    “My team, board, investors and I built IAS from a concept to a global company with more than 600 employees in nine years. We had big dreams and lots of ideas, but the key to our success was our ability to focus all of our time and resources on the limited number of strategic initiatives that really mattered. It would have been much easier for us to do this if we had a strategy platform of record in place that had powered, tracked and supported our rapid growth and ambitious expansion plans. The value creation system and business building platform CovQ makes a lot of sense to adopt early on for any business, but it’s especially relevant for growth companies in volatile environments like technology.”

    Scott Knoll fmr. CEO Integral Ad Science

    “When it’s done right, your strategy is really pulling you into the future. It’s a set of consciously made choices about what are we going to do, what are we not going to do, and how that creates a future that meets our growth ambitions.” Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, “Mastering Value Creation”

    Prof. Rita McGrath Strategy Professor, Columbia Business School, best-selling author

    “Strategy formulation and strategy realization are not two distinct things, they are very much intertwined. If organizations are successful in relating these elements in a circular and systematic way, they truly begin to address value creation in their strategy.” Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, “Mastering Value Creation”

    Prof. Dr. Simon Grand Professor of Strategic Management and Management Innovation, University of St. Gallen, co-author of the St. Gallen Management Model

    “True story: Ralf and I were drafting the first go-to-market strategy for PRION sitting at the kitchen table at my home. As a result, we then applied a holistic and system-oriented management approach over our 16-years long journey of expansion. 8W8 acted also as our guide and mastermind throughout the sale to and transition into Accenture providing support, expertise, and specialists.”

    Chris Frim Founder, PRION (acquired by Accenture)

    “As a strategic partner of Microsoft’s Power BI business analytics solution, we, the Process Analytics Factory and provider of the PAFnow data mining tools, are scaling our global business in line with Power Bl’s rapid market share expansion. Now we are using the comprehnsive and clear results of the CovQ assessment to implement additional laser-focused strategies that are going to enhance our growth and value building journey for the years to come.”

    Tobias Rother Founder, PAFnow (acquired by Celonis)

    “I like the fact that it is a structured approach and that the CovQ Enterprise version can be customized to each business’s unique challenges and needs. As a result, companies have the necessary insights to draw the right conclusions and can make meaningful impacts in strategic yet agile ways to start compounding.”

    Prof. Keith Wilcox Macy’s Foundation Professor, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

    “The CovQ approach of identifying and distilling crucial value drivers into the most relevant priorities has been critical to our launch. It is very helpful to seamlessly translate these priorities into strategies to build and improve our business operations. The refinement of strategies on an ongoing basis that are derived from regular CovQ assessments matches and reminds me of exactly how I used to provide clinical care. I am so glad we started to apply the CovQ management system in Perci’s mission to help families protect their loved ones and property from natural disasters.”

    Vivek Kaliraman, MBBS, PhD Founder / CEO Perci

    “I founded two companies, the first of which I sold to Mode Media Corporation in 2010 and the second to Yahoo in 2015. My latest entrepreneurial venture is MyStorage, Vietnam’s first tech-enabled, full-service mini-storage provider. We have adopted the CovQ value creation system at an early stage of our growth, as I wanted to formalize my learnings and experience from the past. By using the CovQ method, I’m able to execute on my strategy with consistency and effective follow-through, ultimately allowing me to expand the business in the most professional and successful possible way.”

    Aric Austin Founder/CEO MyStorage

    “As a creative studio and software development company serving clients around the globe like Airbnb, Aquiris, and Jamcity, keeps us incredibly busy at all times. We have embraced adopting CovQ as our executive management and communication system to make us stay on track with our strategy development, execution, and steady reporting. Especially in hybrid and remote work environments, we found it particularly important to measure executive team alignment, develop the most critical value drivers based on data and apply an integrated, systematic approach to foster our growth. In fact, CovQ is revealing itself as the tool you did not know you needed until you have it.”

    Diego Fagundes Co-Founder/CEO Fuerza Studio

    “At the second CovQ Assessment, we saw a 20% increase in alignment across the leadership team. Even if you don’t immediately develop action items, it stays in the back of your mind.”

    Stas Chijik CEO Billfold

    “For years, CFOs have wanted to connect strategic initiatives directly to ROI and enterprise value uplift. The real breakthrough is when execution can be managed and tracked all the way to measurable market cap impact. CovQ is definitely the missing system in the tech stack that makes this possible.”

    Rakib Azad CFO Alkira, ex-MongoDB, Investor, Advisor

    CovQ is a gift for management!

    Jillian Gillespie Former SVP Finance & Operations MongoDB, Finance Director Google

    The CovQ Value Creation OS Encompasses a Corporate IQ Assessment System, Framework, Method, Knowledge, and Tools to Deliver Desired Outcomes and Compound Value

    DEEP
    Experience and Know-How
    IMPACT
    Operational Practices and Data
    CREATES
    Strategy Management
    VALUE
    Communication and Alignment
    BUILDING
    Human Factor

    The Benefits

    and more
    SaaS infrastructure for systematic value creation
    Single source of truth
    Strategy planning, execution, and progress reporting
    Constant improvement of the organization's effectiveness and outcomes
    Data-driven decision-making
    Defined priorities and orchestrated focus
    Enforce discipline
    Transparent, informed, and institutionalized
    Build trust with investors and employees
    Top-down and bottom-up at the same time
    Leverage best practices and benchmarks
    Constant delivery of improved outcomes
    Reduce risk and maximize success
    Remove emotions from decision making
    Ability to communicate clearly with employees and stakeholders on an ongoing basis
    Support throughout the full lifecycle path - continuous monitoring and optimization for lifetime
    A pragmatic approach
    Leverage modules, practices and tactics as needed
    Learn to understand hype cycles
    Unleash new potentials
    Understand scaling from phase to phase
    Applying 8W8 builds trust with investors
    Orchestrated focus
    More fun
    Know what not to do
    Enjoy compounded value and momentum
    Maximizing top and bottom line
    Agile and flexible
    Transparent, informed and institutionalized
    Reduce risk and stress
    Highly focused and specific
    Clear, structured and disciplined

    Knowledge Center

    Blog Posts
    Value Creation Intelligence: The Neural Time Spine of the Enterprise for Building Compounding Leadersby Ralf Hirt

    Modern enterprises rarely fail because they lack strategy. They fail because strategy does not compound over time. Execution gradually drifts, progress fragments across initiatives and reporting cycles, and momentum dissipates within organizational silos and disconnected tools.

    Blog Posts
    CovQ Value Creation OSby Ralf Hirt

    CovQ empowers management teams and boards of S&P and Global Fortune 500 companies, growth firms, PE and VC investors, consulting organizations, and businesses in transformation to deliver their mission, execute their plans, and unlock their full potential.

    Videos
    An AI Conversation on Unpacking Value Creation and Strategy

    What happens when an AI sits down to explore one of today’s most pressing business challenges: how can companies truly connect strategy with execution to create lasting value?

    Blog Posts
    CovQ ROI Module: Enterprise Value Uplift Creation & Measurementby Ralf Hirt

    Uniquely linking strategy and execution to enterprise value.

    Blog Posts
    CovQ® Assessment for Teams: Your Value Creation Fitness Checkby Ralf Hirt

    Know, Align, Prioritize, and Deliver Real Impact and Sustained TSR – Total Shareholder Return

    Blog Posts
    CovQ® Insights: Growth, Innovation, Productivityby Ralf Hirt

    This report aggregates insights from more than 10,000 data points from CovQ® Assessments conducted across industries to understand how companies perform in delivering mission, accelerating growth, fostering innovation, and driving productivity. CovQ®—the Compound Value Creator Quotient—is the augmented intelligence of a new category of Value Creation Management Platforms (HBR Analytic Services Report “Mastering Value Creation”). It enables organizations to align strategy and execution through value-driver-based prioritization, monitoring, and collaboration. CovQ® Scores and CovQ® Factors or Team Alignment range from 10 (insufficient) to 100 (outstanding). This CovQ® Insights Report—developed from proprietary data, artificial intelligence, and human insight—delivers deployable, time-sensitive intelligence to fuel strategic execution and outperform in growth, innovation, and productivity and to become a Compounding Leader.

    Blog Posts
    Plug & Compound: CovQ API for AI and Strategy Yield Surgesby Ralf Hirt

    From Strategy to Execution—Seamlessly and Inevitably Every company has strategies. But let’s face it—strategies alone don’t create value. Execution does. The ability to translate strategy into compounding results is the defining factor between winners and those left behind. That’s where CovQ introduces Plug & Compound—the fastest way to turn strategy into impact, outcomes and results. Clients can start step by step or go all in.

    Blog Posts
    AI Intersecting with HI – The CovQ Advantageby Ralf Hirt

    In the rapidly evolving business management landscape, the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI) has created unprecedented opportunities to supercharge organizational performance and shareholder value creation. At the heart of this synergy lies the AI-agnostic CovQ (Compound Value Creator Quotient) value creation management platform, which the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services* introduced as a new category of enterprise software solutions.

    Blog Posts
    CovQ® Becomes Member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® Open Ecosystemby Ralf Hirt

    We are thrilled to announce that CovQ® by 8W8 is now a Member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® open ecosystem. This grants CovQ® access to critical SAP® resources, including essential sales and marketing support, education, training, enablement, service benefits, and development tools.

    Blog Posts
    Excellence. No More of the Same.by Ralf Hirt

    A Value Creation Architecture Above and Beyond AI, ERP Systems, and Spreadsheets.

    Blog Posts
    CovQ AI Assessment in Geopolitically Challenging Timesby Ralf Hirt

    Generating Value Creation Intelligence and Managing Alignment as an Immediate Strategic and Tactical Capability

    Blog Posts
    Inside the Value Creation Intelligence Centerby Ralf Hirt

    The CovQ® Value Creation Intelligence Center operates on the value driver and augmented metrics foundation of the CovQ neural network and its integrated strategy and execution architecture.

    Blog Posts
    Value Creation Intelligence: The Neural Time Spine of the Enterprise for Building Compounding Leaders
    Modern enterprises rarely fail because they lack strategy. They fail because strategy does not compound over time. Execution gradually drifts, progress fragments across initiatives and reporting cycles, and momentum dissipates within organizational silos and disconnected tools. Value Creation Intelligence addresses this structural gap by treating strategy and execution not as
    Blog Posts
    CovQ Value Creation OS
    In the images below, we have summarized everything your need to know about the CovQ Value Creation OS. Download HBR Analytic Services Report
    Videos
    An AI Conversation on Unpacking Value Creation and Strategy
    What happens when an AI sits down to explore one of today’s most pressing business challenges: how can companies truly connect strategy with execution to create lasting value? That is the premise of our latest experiment. An AI-generated podcast conversation, created with Gemini, dives into the insights of the Harvard
    Blog Posts
    CovQ ROI Module: Enterprise Value Uplift Creation & Measurement
    Uniquely linking strategy and execution to enterprise value. The patent-pending CovQ® platform empowers companies to identify their most critical value drivers, design strategic initiatives, and manage execution to completion, including tracking, reporting, and cascading action items across the organization. Now, with the CovQ ROI Module, the loop between strategy and
    Blog Posts
    CovQ® Assessment for Teams: Your Value Creation Fitness Check
    Know, Align, Prioritize, and Deliver Real Impact and Sustained TSR – Total Shareholder Return What You Get • Team-wide CovQ Assessment across 60 Core Value Drivers • Augmented metrics (HBR AS-recognized approach) and proprietary CovQ Insights Benchmark Data• Executive alignment delta and upside report • Expert review session with strategic
    Blog Posts
    CovQ® Insights: Growth, Innovation, Productivity
    Executive Summary This report aggregates insights from more than 10,000 data points from CovQ® Assessments conducted across industries to understand how companies perform in delivering mission, accelerating growth, fostering innovation, and driving productivity. CovQ®—the Compound Value Creator Quotient—is the augmented intelligence of a new category of Value Creation Management Platforms
    Blog Posts
    Plug & Compound: CovQ API for AI and Strategy Yield Surges
    From Strategy to Execution—Seamlessly and Inevitably Every company has strategies. But let’s face it—strategies alone don’t create value. Execution does. The ability to translate strategy into compounding results is the defining factor between winners and those left behind. That’s where CovQ introduces Plug & Compound—the fastest way to turn strategy
    Blog Posts
    AI Intersecting with HI – The CovQ Advantage
    In the rapidly evolving business management landscape, the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI) has created unprecedented opportunities to supercharge organizational performance and shareholder value creation. At the heart of this synergy lies the AI-agnostic CovQ (Compound Value Creator Quotient) value creation management platform, which the Harvard
    Blog Posts
    CovQ® Becomes Member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® Open Ecosystem
    We are thrilled to announce that CovQ® by 8W8 is now a Member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® open ecosystem. This grants CovQ® access to critical SAP® resources, including essential sales and marketing support, education, training, enablement, service benefits, and development tools. This milestone aligns perfectly with our commitment to empowering
    Blog Posts
    Excellence. No More of the Same.
    The Value Creation Intelligence System A Value Creation Architecture Above and Beyond AI, ERP Systems, and Spreadsheets. It is not a failure of leadership that most companies do not systematically overperform, because they were never designed to do so. At the same time, the expectation remains unchanged. Companies are expected
    Blog Posts
    CovQ AI Assessment in Geopolitically Challenging Times
    Generating Value Creation Intelligence and Managing Alignment as an Immediate Strategic and Tactical Capability A CovQ AI customized assessment, based on the Compound Value Creator Quotient (CovQ), helps CEOs, CFOs, and strategy leaders generate value creation intelligence while measuring leadership alignment on how to respond to emerging strategic developments. Tailored
    Blog Posts
    Inside the Value Creation Intelligence Center
    The CovQ® Value Creation Intelligence Center operates on the value driver and augmented metrics foundation of the CovQ neural network and its integrated strategy and execution architecture. It measures and reports both actual and structural progression, allowing management and investors to determine whether value generation and incremental enterprise value and


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