Systematically improving how a business prices — lifting realized price through better strategy, packaging, and discipline — a high-return <em>lever</em> for margin.
Grouping customers by when they were acquired and tracking each group over time — revealing the true <em>retention</em> and economics behind headline growth.
A breakdown of an investment's equity gain into its drivers — growth, margin, multiple change, and debt paydown — showing <em>where</em> the return came from.
Cost reductions captured by changing how a portfolio company buys goods and services — through better pricing, consolidated suppliers, and tighter demand.
The rate at which customers or recurring revenue is lost over a period — the leak that <em>net</em> growth has to outrun before any new sales count.
Centralizing back-office functions — finance, HR, IT, procurement — into one shared unit so multiple business units stop running them <em>separately</em>.