01 / Single Company
80/20 Value Creation
Help one leadership team improve the bottom line, simplify the business, and turn clearer priorities into measurable results.
Explore Value CreationSift & Winn | Earned Perspective
Earned perspective for the decisions that matter most.
We work alongside leaders to identify what matters most, make better decisions faster, and turn those decisions into measurable results.
See how we helpScale, Sell or Save.
Make the next move with clarity.
You want help improving the business because you need to scale it, sell it, or save it. The decisions in front of you are too important to rely on borrowed expertise.
Four ways to work together
Start with the decision and who owns it.
One company, a portfolio, an ownership transition, and an acquisition each require a different relationship. All four benefit from candid judgment and people who know how decisions play out in practice.
02 / Private Equity Sponsors
80/20 Value Platform
Build a repeatable sponsor-level program that creates a common method while keeping execution grounded in each portfolio company.
Explore Value Platform03 / Business Owners
Acquiring Entrepreneurs
Find a capable next owner who respects the people, knowledge, and relationships that made the company worth building.
Explore this path04 / Acquisition Entrepreneurs
Value-Add Investing
Work with an equity partner who brings aligned capital, operating judgment, and practical help when the work gets real.
Explore investingEarned Perspective
Developed in the work, not borrowed from the sidelines.
We earned our perspective by building, leading, fixing, buying, selling, and growing businesses ourselves. It was shaped by real tradeoffs and the consequences that followed.
The operating thread
80/20 turns focus into action.
Use data to distinguish the vital work from the merely busy work, make the choices that follow, and measure what changes.
- 01
Segment
See the business clearly: customers, products, markets, and the work that creates value.
- 02
Simplify
Reduce noise so the team can put time and capital behind the right priorities.
- 03
Zero-up
Build plans from the facts on the ground, not inherited assumptions or borrowed playbooks.
- 04
Grow
Turn sharper focus into disciplined commercial and operating action that can be measured.
Evidence, not theater
Experience carried into the work.
The evidence spans company-level operating choices and four years helping stand up a cross-portfolio 80/20 practice. Confidentiality limits the names, not the clarity of what we can responsibly show.
Anonymized operating case
Standing up a cross-portfolio 80/20 practice
How Sift & Winn's principals helped a major private equity group build an 80/20 capability that portfolio leaders could use in the work.
4 yearsworking together across the practice
Cross-portfolioapplication across operating companies
Anonymized experience brief
Turning product and market choices into commercial focus
Principal operating experience connecting product introductions, market entry and portfolio choices to focused commercial execution.
10+product introductions led
1new market entered as part of the operating experience
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