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Graham Partners Operating Company developed GPS as a standardized operating model for value creation across its portfolio.
The model was designed to bring the rigor, accountability, and structured execution of a consulting engagement into every acquisition. But for that model to scale, Graham Partners needed more than a playbook. It needed an execution platform capable of making the model operational across different companies and sectors.
Before Conductor, GPS relied on spreadsheets and Smartsheet to manage value creation activity. As the portfolio expanded, maintaining the same level of governance and visibility across every acquisition became increasingly difficult.
- Spreadsheets and Smartsheet handled tasks, not value creation — with no portfolio-level visibility.
- The GPOC team had no real-time view of what was moving; progress depended on manual updates.
- Connecting individual initiatives to EBITDA was manual and lived with individual operating partners.
- One execution layer for GPS — initiative tracking, financial KPIs, and governance in one place.
- A real-time view across every holding, without disconnected spreadsheets.
- Every initiative connected to EBITDA outcomes, portfolio-wide.
Graham Partners implemented Conductor as the execution layer for GPS, bringing initiative tracking, financial KPIs, and governance into one platform.
The goal is to run value creation across the portfolio the same way we ran transformations when I was in consulting — with the same rigor, the same accountability, the same visibility into what's moving. Conductor is how GPS becomes operational, not just conceptual.
By making GPS operational through Conductor, Graham Partners achieved:
Value creation at portfolio scale requires more than a strong operating model. It requires a way to make that model repeatable.
Graham Partners used Conductor to turn GPS from a value creation framework into an operational system, giving each acquisition a consistent approach to governance, execution visibility, and financial accountability.
One operating model. Repeatable across every acquisition.
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