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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.
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
CovQ is a gift for management!
The CovQ Value Creation OS Encompasses a Corporate IQ Assessment System, Framework, Method, Knowledge, and Tools to Deliver Desired Outcomes and Compound Value
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.
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.
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?
Uniquely linking strategy and execution to enterprise value.
Know, Align, Prioritize, and Deliver Real Impact and Sustained TSR – Total Shareholder Return
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Value Creation Architecture Above and Beyond AI, ERP Systems, and Spreadsheets.
Generating Value Creation Intelligence and Managing Alignment as an Immediate Strategic and Tactical Capability
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.
