Focus areas
To meet our strategic priorities, we focus on three prioritized areas:
Performance
Portfolio
People
To meet our strategic priorities, we focus on three prioritized areas:
Making sure we and our portfolio companies perform both short-term and long-term
• Focus on profitable growth
• Future-proof through innovation
• Address underperformance
Our companies’ ability to drive profitable growth is the main driver of net asset value growth over time. Performance today – delivering customer value efficiently – provides the means to invest appropriately to future-proof the businesses, for instance through innovative new products and expansion into new geographies. Investor’s companies are market leaders thanks to the products and services brought forward by their focus on R&D and innovation. This must be kept up. Across the portfolio there is significant untapped potential from better leveraging AI to further enhance customer offerings and to drive efficiency. We nurture a culture and have incentives in place that reward performance. When businesses do not perform at their full potential, we act swiftly to address this.
Striving to own the right businesses over time
• Continue investments
• Prune the portfolio
• Ensure Investor’s financial flexibility
Investor, and all our companies, must position ourselves in businesses with strong positions in market niches with structural growth supported by long-term trends, such as demographics and technology shifts. Most of this is made organically within the companies, as they invest to support profitable growth, and over time, exit areas of less interest. Investor’s cash flow generation capacity enables us to support the companies as they expand, organically and through add-on acquisitions. We are also open to adding new companies, if or when we find the right opportunities. We invest to own and build companies over time, and exit is not part of the strategy. However, continuously pruning the portfolio is important.
We rely on excellent and empowered people in strong teams
• Ensure the right leadership
• Expand Investor’s network
• Never compromise on values and integrity
We work to attract, develop and retain a strong team at Investor. As an owner, we also need to make sure that we have the right individuals as board members in each portfolio company. To do this, we continue to develop and expand our network, bringing in relevant competence within areas such as technology and innovation, and improving diversity in relevant dimensions. A key task for the boards is to ensure that we have the right leaders in place to drive performance and transformation in each company. Investor continues the work to promote a culture of transparency and integrity, where ethical behavior is recognized and rewarded. We implement robust compliance and governance frameworks to prevent unethical behavior and ensure regulatory compliance.
