Hold Cycle Improvement
After the first 100 days, the focus shifts from rapid execution to long-term performance.
Driving Sustainable Growth and Operational Excellence
After the first 100 days, the focus shifts from rapid execution to long-term performance. The hold period is where real enterprise value is built—and where PIP thrives. Our Hold Cycle Improvement services are designed to help portfolio companies scale efficiently, improve operational performance, mitigate risk and increase EBITDA.
Our Hold Cycle Improvement Services
- Rapidly fill key leadership gaps with experienced technology executives who can drive transformation and performance.
- Drive strategy, execution, and transformation for growth-stage portfolio companies—offering flexible, cost-efficient leadership that aligns IT with business goals, accelerates initiatives, and strengthens internal teams.
- Centralize and scale cybersecurity best practices across the portfolio to reduce risk and support compliance.
- Unlock insights across the organization with business intelligence strategies, dashboards, and self-service analytics platforms.
- Modernize and optimize IT infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement and manage ERP, CRM, and other core applications with a focus on user adoption, functionality, and ROI.
- Design and build tailored applications to support unique business models, enable automation, or capture competitive advantage.
- Fast diagnostic reviews to identify opportunities for tech-driven EBITDA uplift, process automation, or IT cost takeout.
- Support technology diligence, integration planning, and execution for add-on acquisitions, ensuring seamless alignment with the platform company and accelerating synergy realization.
- Rapidly assess underperforming IT environments, implement corrective actions, and rebuild IT capabilities to stabilize operations, support business goals, and drive value creation.
- Analyze and optimize your IT spend, identifying savings opportunities, eliminating inefficiencies, and reallocating resources to drive greater value and support growth.
Value Delivered
Scale Securely and Strategically
Improve EBITDA
Reduce IT Complexity and Spend
Enable Digital Transformation to Support Growth
Improve Portfolio Company Readiness for Exit
Bridging Strategy to Execution with ValueBridge
ValueBridge is your ongoing partner in value creation. During the hold period, we apply our proven methodology to align technology initiatives with your evolving growth strategy. Whether you’re professionalizing the IT organization, eliminating inefficiencies, or enabling digital transformation, we help you unlock EBITDA impact and create long-term enterprise value.
Why Partner with PIP During the Hold Period?
Deep Bench of Functional & Technical Expertise
PE-Aligned Approach to Cost, Risk, and Growth
Embedded Resources Who Operate Like Your Own Team
Repeatable Frameworks with Portfolio-Level Insight
“Performance Improvement Partners consistently provides us with IT experts and practitioners who contribute to our team in meaningful ways. Management and consultants listen to our needs, identify the root cause of challenges, and deliver practical solutions that have a significant impact on the business.”
“Since 2003, PIP has provided us with sophisticated solutions that support the unique technology needs of our Private Equity Firm. At the same time, they make the complex simple – particularly for our portfolio companies — breaking implementation down into manageable parts. PIP is our go-to technology partner thanks to their ability to listen, understand, and consistently create solutions that act in the best interest of both our firm and our portfolio companies.”
“My 10 years of partnership with Performance Improvement Partners has led to significant value creation across our portfolio. Their approach is both sophisticated and pragmatic, resulting in over a dozen successful enterprise system implementations. Our portfolio companies have nothing but good things to say about PIP, which we too have witnessed in their strong operational and technical expertise.”
Ready to Optimize and Scale?
Let’s talk about how our Hold Cycle Improvement services can help unlock margin, improve performance, and prepare your portfolio company for a high-value exit.
