Blog Posts
Nobel Prize Thinking Embedded in CovQ®by Ralf Hirt

Turning Economic Theory into Measurable Enterprise Growth

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.

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Next-Gen Patent Filed: CovQ® Anchoring Gravity and Vision

We are excited to share that we have officially filed our patent application with the USPTO

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

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

Useful Resources
The Outthinkers Podcast

The Outthinkers podcast is a growth strategy podcast hosted by Kaihan Krippendorff. Each week, Kaihan talks with forward-looking strategists and innovators who are challenging the status quo, leading the future of business, and shaping our world.

Blog Posts
The Convenient Truth: You Are in Control (If You Decide So)by Ralf Hirt

We took a four-step approach to explore where companies can unlock the most additional value creation and what it takes to actually deliver on that potential.

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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
CovQ HBR AS Report Release Event with and at Grant Thornton New York City

We are excited to share some impressions of our exclusive launch event celebrating the Special Report, “Mastering Value Creation by Centering Strategy and Execution,” produced by HBR Analytic Services (Harvard Business Review) in association with CovQ by 8W8. The event was hosted at Grant Thornton in New York City. We would like to thank Markus Veith, Partner at Grant Thornton in charge of the Northeast Financial Institutions Practice, for facilitating the event, and Alex Clemente, Managing Director of HBR Analytic Services, for presenting the findings and moderating the panel with accomplished business leaders Alasdair Trotter, National Managing Principal and Head of Growth Advisory at Grant Thornton, Stas Chijik, CEO of CovQ client Billfold, and Ralf Hirt, CEO of CovQ by 8W8.