Strategic Growth Markets (SGM) Overview – Our Emerging Growth Company Solutions grow out of our decades of focus on the entrepreneurial market. - Ernst & Young - Australia

During some of the best and worst of times, our On the move report has chronicled the trends behind the most rapidly growing ASX listed companies with a head office in WA.  In our latest quarterly report (pdf, 1.2mb), interviews with the Chief Executives of some of the fastest moving WA companies share what they consider to the their keys to ahead-of-market success and effectively provide a “blueprint” for any business seeking to position their company for success when their industry emerges from a downturn. 

In September 2009, we asked a group of future market leaders - participants in the global Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award - what their priorities were coming out of the global financial crisis. What lessons had they learned? Most of them are actually thriving in the downturn - see how.

 In response to the downturn, Ernst & Young recently surveyed 3,100 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award country winners and finalists. Our findings (pdf, 1.4mb) show that 67% of high-growth company CEOs and entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the downturn by "pursuing new market opportunities" and that expanding customer base and sharpening market differentiation are the top priority for today's leading entrepreneurs.

It's not luck that turns some businesses into market leaders, it's being exceptional. Our experience of working with dynamic and ambitious companies around the world has taught us that whatever the industry or stage of growth, all businesses face certain challenges. Discover what we think it takes to become an exceptional enterprise on the road to market leadership in Why are some companies luckier than others? (pdf, 452kb)

Ernst & Young is proud to launch Entrepreneur (pdf, 3.1mb); profiling some of Australia’s most visionary, dynamic and innovative business leaders. In this inaugural issue, we speak with our 2008 Entrepreneur Of The Year national category winners, representing the best entrepreneurial talent in this country. We also feature a global solar energy company, founded by an Australian scientist, at the cutting edge of the clean technology sector and gain insights on the leadership style within one of Australia's fastest growing public companies. We hope you find this publication as inspiring as the entrepreneurs featured within its pages.

In December 2008, Ernst & Young launched thought leadership that investigates the catalysts driving Australia’s fast growing public companies. The scope of research includes companies from across Australia. We report on the performance, diversity and maturity of the companies ranked 201-400 on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). We also share insights from interviews with Chief Executive Officers of some of the leading performers in this space. Bright stars – big horizons (pdf, 2.3mb) also shines a spotlight on the new entrants that have moved up into the ASX 201-400.