Building Organizational Capabilities That Drive Growth

Through business acumen training, product management training, strategic thinking training, and executive capability programs, we build the organizational muscle that accelerates growth.

Business Acumen Institute helps complex companies build the business discipline their leaders need to execute strategy, drive profitability, and accelerate growth. We utilize assessments, capability-building programs, and targeted training to help clients build the organizational muscle to grow faster, drive revenue, and deliver bottom-line results.

Why Business Discipline Matters

Most professionals are technically competent but lack the business discipline to connect their work to strategic goals, understand how decisions impact profitability, or think systemically about problems. They excel in their function but struggle to make business cases, read financials, or organize effectively around what drives results. This capability gap slows execution, stalls strategic initiatives, and prevents companies from achieving their growth potential. We close this gap through business acumen training, product management training, and strategic thinking training that develops business discipline through real work on real challenges—not classroom theory.

How We Build Capability

We build organizational capabilities that deliver quarterly growth impact. Through 90-day rapid-cycle projects, your designated teams tackle targeted initiatives based on your company’s actual performance data. These capability-building projects rapidly produce measurable results while building the organizational muscle needed to overcome the drag that keeps you from growing as fast as you need to. We focus on three interconnected capabilities: Business Acumen, Strategic Thinking, and Product Management.

How We Build Capability

For CEOs and C-suite teams experiencing low growth, our Growth Accelerator Program diagnoses where organizational drag blocks execution, then facilitates 90-day rapid-cycle projects that deliver measurable quarterly results while building lasting capability. Learn more →

For product management executives who need to organize more effectively around product management, or to ensure their product managers are sufficiently skilled, we provide product management competency assessments, infrastructure development, and capability-building programs that transform product management from coordination into a business discipline. Learn more →

For HR & L&D leaders developing business acumen and strategic thinking across the organization, our business acumen training and strategic thinking training programs use experiential learning using your actual business information, including your financials, your portfolio decisions, and your strategic challenges to build capability that sticks. Learn more →

For product managers and other emerging leaders who need to strengthen their business acumen, strategic thinking, and product management capabilities, we offer online courses, corporate product management training, and assessments that build the foundational business discipline needed to advance your career and drive results. Learn more →