Capability-Powered Growth Our Capabilities Help Companies Break Through Low-Growth Patterns The Business Acumen Institute builds the three capabilities that determine whether strategy turns into results: business acumen, strategic thinking, and product management. Together, these capabilities reduce organizational drag, improve decision quality, and strengthen the internal muscle required for sustainable 10%+ growth. Each capability is interconnected—and when built intentionally, they create a leadership system that drives better decisions, faster execution, and more disciplined portfolio outcomes. PRODUCT MANAGEMENT The Strategic Function Where Strategy Becomes Revenue Product management is how organizations translate strategic intent into transparent portfolio decisions, disciplined resource allocation, and measurable revenue outcomes. Companies that fortify product management as a strategic function create the execution engine that turns market intelligence into sustainable growth. Explore BUSINESS ACUMEN The Common Language That Enables Strategic Decisions Business acumen enables leaders to understand how the business makes money, build credible business cases, make trade-offs using financial logic, and connect decisions to strategic goals. Leaders with business acumen speak a common language across functions and think like business owners, not just functional specialists. Explore STRATEGIC THINKING The Cognitive Discipline That Navigates Complexity Strategic thinking is the cognitive discipline to recognize patterns, think in systems, anticipate unintended consequences, and design solutions that strengthen over time. It’s what makes business acumen actionable under pressure and transforms product management into strategic business leadership. Explore