The Lab

Growth Allocation Lab

By Mauro Mazzocchini, global marketing and growth executive in industrial technology and complex B2B.

A $500M-$2B industrial technology business has $10M of incremental growth investment. Five places it could go. Allocate the money, then rate each motion on the three questions that test it. The exercise shows you what your own judgments say about your portfolio.

This is a thinking tool. It puts your allocation and your evidence side by side, which is where most growth-investment conversations should start.

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The portfolio read

Listed from your highest-rated motion down.

Your average rating, out of 5 Money, out of the $10M More money than a higher-rated motion
On your own ratings

The first question is whether the organization has chosen the right growth pools. Cost per lead by channel comes after that.

How the read is produced

Each motion's evidence score is the simple average of your three ratings: near-term economics, right to win, and readiness to execute.

The read lists the motions from your highest-rated to your lowest. The blue bar is that average, out of 5. The dark bar is the money, out of the $10M.

When your money follows your evidence, the dark bars step down, or hold level, as you go down the list. A motion that gets more money than one you rate higher turns amber, and the read names the largest of those gaps. Putting the most money behind your strongest motions reads as consistent.

That is the entire mechanism. It confronts your allocation with your judgments.

A simple decision exercise built on synthetic assumptions. The read reflects only the allocation and ratings you enter.

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