Consulting Service

Growth Strategy and Strategic Planning Consulting

Rostami Growth Advisors helps leadership teams decide where to play, how to win, and which growth priorities deserve investment and organizational attention. RGA combines market, customer, competitive, and economic analysis to create a focused strategic roadmap that guides product, commercial, capability, and investment decisions.

The work is designed for leaders who need to turn growth ambition into a small number of clear choices, aligned initiatives, and practical execution priorities.

Vision & StrategyCustomer Insight & SegmentationCompetitive & Market Position
Who It Is For
—CEOs, business-unit presidents, and general managers
—Chief strategy and chief growth officers
—Product and commercial leaders
—Boards, investors, and PE-backed management teams
—Fintech, banking, specialty lending, automotive, technology, and other growth-oriented businesses
Common Trigger Situations
—Growth has slowed, flattened, or become less predictable.
—The company is considering a new market, segment, or adjacency.
—Several initiatives compete for the same budget and leadership attention.
—The organization lacks a shared view of its priority customer.
—The strategic plan consists primarily of financial goals rather than choices.
—Product, marketing, sales, and partnership teams are pursuing different priorities.
Not a fit

This service is not designed for companies seeking additional execution capacity without first making or validating the underlying strategic choices.

Questions We Help Answer

Decisions leadership should answer confidently

01

Where will our next source of growth come from?

02

Which customer segments should we prioritize?

03

Which markets or opportunities should we deliberately not pursue?

04

How large is the realistic opportunity?

05

Where is there meaningful whitespace in the market?

06

What can our company credibly be best at for the priority customer?

07

Why do our growth plans stall after the strategy is approved?

08

Which initiatives should receive capital and executive attention?

What RGA Does

A focused path from decision to activation

1

Establish the growth ambition

Clarify the desired growth, strategic role, decision criteria, and planning horizon.

2

Diagnose the current growth system

Assess the company’s customers, products, positioning, capabilities, economics, channels, and sources of growth.

3

Map the market and competition

Evaluate market structure, customer needs, alternatives, emerging models, competitive positions, and potential whitespace.

4

Segment and prioritize customers

Identify meaningful customer segments and assess their needs, attractiveness, accessibility, economics, and strategic fit.

5

Evaluate growth opportunities

Compare opportunities based on potential, customer value, differentiation, economics, execution requirements, and right to win.

6

Make strategic choices

Define where to play, how to win, and what the company will not prioritize.

7

Build the roadmap

Translate the strategy into initiatives, investment choices, organizational responsibilities, dependencies, and measures.

What Clients Receive

Concrete decision tools and activation-ready outputs

—Growth ambition and strategic objectives
—Current-state Growth System assessment
—Market and competitive landscape
—Customer segmentation and priority-segment profiles
—Opportunity map and prioritization criteria
—Scored growth initiatives
—Where-to-play and how-to-win choices
—Strategic roadmap and investment priorities
—Initiative sequencing and dependencies
—Leadership or board presentation
—Governance and performance measures
How RGA Engages

Match the engagement to the business question

Scope and timing depend on the business question, available information, stakeholder access, and the level of activation support required.

Growth System Diagnostic

The most common starting point when leadership must evaluate multiple opportunities, determine why growth is underperforming, or create a new strategic direction.

Execution Build Sprint

Appropriate when the question is narrower, such as assessing a new customer segment, evaluating a market entry, or building the roadmap for a defined growth initiative.

Embedded Advisory

Appropriate when leadership wants ongoing support as the strategic roadmap moves into product, commercial, partnership, and organizational execution.

What the client provides

—Access to financial and operating data
—Relevant market and customer research
—Access to decision-makers
—Participation from the functions responsible for execution
—Timely feedback on strategic choices

Outside the scope

—Software or product development
—Day-to-day marketing campaign execution
—Full-time program-management staffing
—Legal, tax, audit, accounting, or regulatory advice
—Investment banking or M&A transaction execution
How RGA Approaches the Work

Integrated, customer-led, and designed for activation

Customer-led

Start with the priority customer, unmet need, and value the company can credibly create.

Integrated

Connect strategy, product, pricing, marketing, sales, partnerships, technology, and operations.

Economics-grounded

Translate choices into revenue, margin, investment, capability, and enterprise-value implications.

Activation-ready

Convert recommendations into roadmaps, tools, ownership, measures, and operating routines.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about scope, process, and support

Discuss Your Growth Priorities

Share the decision, growth opportunity, or execution challenge your team is working through. Bring the current question, available evidence, key stakeholders, and desired timing to the first conversation.