Strategic Investment Management
Inside every firm, teams compete for capital, people and mandates every cycle, but the prices stay hidden and the decisions are made blind to them. This work makes the prices visible, and shows for each decision how far it is from changing. Thirty years of practice; every idea is implemented in the IQ Suite.
The problem
Physics has laws. Economics, since Samuelson, has been a science of useful models: never perfect, but they explain a great deal. Money invested in financial markets has had that science since Markowitz in 1952.
Money invested inside a company, where most of its capital and people go, never got one. It got a process: stages, gates, scoring templates. Useful, with very little theory underneath. Strategic Investment Management puts that decision on the foundation economics provides.
What goes wrong as a result
The discipline
Thirty years of practice, every idea implemented and running. What an organization values, what it is offered, what it can spend, what it chooses and who does the work form one system with economic roots. Five disciplines work on it: economics, mathematics, behavior, governance and law, and automation. The discipline →
Choosing investments and producing the capacity to deliver them are one economy, joined by prices.
02A better pipeline and the right limits moved, guided by the firm's hidden internal prices, made visible.
03We don't ask how uncertain you are. We show how uncertain you can afford to be.
04Decided one year at a time, a firm under-builds and under-maintains. Planned as a path, it pulls ahead.
05The margin of each decision sets who decides and what AI does for them.
What's new
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Five disciplines, five ideas, and the structure that joins them.
→Six findings, each with how we know.
→Six parts and twenty-four topics.
→The reasoning, published, one claim at a time.
→About 120 decisions, each with an owner.
→Mike Gruia, and a way to write to him.
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